Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls74
Interactions in Fixed Effects Regression Models42
Non-invariance? An Overstated Problem With Misconceived Causes33
Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography32
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis30
Applying and Assessing Large-N QCA: Causality and Robustness From a Critical Realist Perspective26
Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps: Data From a German National Survey24
Intersectionality, Contextual Specificity, and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the Difficulty Associated With Identifying a Main Reason for Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Respondents17
Fixed Effects Individual Slopes: Accounting and Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in Panel Data or Other Multilevel Models16
Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action16
A Method for Studying Differences in Segregation Across Time and Space16
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis15
Making Things Possible13
The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models13
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application12
Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research12
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects12
What Do We Mean By a “Hard-to-reach” Population? Legitimacy Versus Precarity as Barriers to Access12
Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021)11
Response Quality in Nonprobability and Probability-based Online Panels11
A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation10
Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA9
The Gap-Closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions That Close Disparities Across Social Categories8
Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics8
The probability of a robust inference for internal validity8
Intensive Family Observations: A Methodological Guide7
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences7
Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling7
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat7
A Logistic Regression Extension for the Randomized Response Simple and Crossed Models: Theoretical Results and Empirical Evidence6
Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research6
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach6
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types6
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey6
Q-SpAM: How to Efficiently Measure Similarity in Online Research6
Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing5
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models5
A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model5
Model Adequacy Checking/Goodness-of-fit Testing for Behavior in Joint Dynamic Network/Behavior Models, with an Extension to Two-mode Networks5
Why the “Hoax” Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated5
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage5
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey5
Marginal and Conditional Confounding Using Logits5
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.5
Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research5
Cheater Detection Using the Unrelated Question Model5
The Structure of Academic Achievement: Searching for Proximal Mechanisms Using Causal Discovery Algorithms5
An Improved Two-stage Randomized Response Model for Estimating the Proportion of Sensitive Attribute5
Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm5
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse5
Effects of Partner Presence During the Interview on Survey Responses: The Example of Questions Concerning the Division of Household Labor5
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter5
A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition5
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