Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls118
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis51
Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography45
Non-invariance? An Overstated Problem With Misconceived Causes42
Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action28
Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021)23
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis23
A Method for Studying Differences in Segregation Across Time and Space22
The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models20
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects20
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application19
A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation19
Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling17
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models17
Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research17
What Do We Mean By a “Hard-to-reach” Population? Legitimacy Versus Precarity as Barriers to Access16
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat15
Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA13
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences12
Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing11
The Gap-Closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions That Close Disparities Across Social Categories11
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data10
A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model8
Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research8
Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance8
From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research8
Introduction to Neural Transfer Learning With Transformers for Social Science Text Analysis7
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design7
A New Approach to Detecting Cheating in Sensitive Surveys: The Cheating Detection Triangular Model7
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey7
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies7
Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm7
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter7
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.6
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey6
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types6
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse6
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach6
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy6
A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups6
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries6
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage6
Marginal and Conditional Confounding Using Logits6
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