Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified186
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research95
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework59
Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries51
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables42
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream36
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning29
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data28
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites27
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions27
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage26
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)26
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys22
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research21
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model17
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies17
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations16
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202015
Beyond Proximity: Investigating Crime With Organic Neighborhoods and a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach14
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula14
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat13
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery13
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate13
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate12
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study12
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research12
Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes10
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research10
Sampling in Video-Based Social Sciences10
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?9
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages9
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery9
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