OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls	118
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis	56
Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography	45
Non-invariance? An Overstated Problem With Misconceived Causes	42
Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action	30
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis	24
Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021)	24
A Method for Studying Differences in Segregation Across Time and Space	23
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects	21
The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models	20
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models	19
A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation	19
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application	19
Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling	17
Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research	17
What Do We Mean By a “Hard-to-reach” Population? Legitimacy Versus Precarity as Barriers to Access	16
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	15
The Gap-Closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions That Close Disparities Across Social Categories	14
Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA	14
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	13
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data	11
Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing	11
Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance	9
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey	8
A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model	8

From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research	8
Introduction to Neural Transfer Learning With Transformers for Social Science Text Analysis	8
Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research	8
Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm	7
A New Approach to Detecting Cheating in Sensitive Surveys: The Cheating Detection Triangular Model	7
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types	7
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter	7
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design	7
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	7
A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups	6
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse	6
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach	6
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	6
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	6
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	6
Marginal and Conditional Confounding Using Logits	6
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	6
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage	6