Social Science Computer Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Science Computer Review is 2. 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
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects198
Harnessing Big Data, Hindered by Bias: Evaluating TikTok Research API for Fair and Optimal Social Sciences103
States of Abortion Talk: Social Media Responses to Threats and Opportunities Post-Dobbs68
α|D〉+β|H〉: Exploration of Quantum Deep Learning on Humanities Data from the Perspective of Digital Humanities62
Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation in a Social Multiplayer Online Game: Player Influence Dynamics in Sky: Children of Light47
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat44
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach40
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum38
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach36
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication33
Evaluating the AI Tool “Elicit” as a Semi-Automated Second Reviewer for Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews: A Proof-of-Concept28
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation26
Elite Polarisation on Twitter/X: Structural and Behavioural Dynamics in Public Discourse25
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case25
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work25
Use and Abuse of Social Media as a Punitive Remedy in Light of Criminal Law: A Tool or a Court? Analysis of the Chilean Regulation24
Online Information Exposure, Knowledge Development, and AI Anxiety: Extending the Cognitive Mediation Model to Explain GenAI Adoption in China21
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence20
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda19
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide18
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals17
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns17
Automating Content Analysis With Multiple LLM Agents: Impacts of Agent Attributes and Human–AI Collaboration17
Unmasking Coordination: How Inauthentic Behavior Emerged and Diffusion During the Russia–Ukraine War on Twitter16
Media Visibility and Information-Seeking: Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)16
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding15
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression15
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making15
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time15
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data15
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile14
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts14
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory13
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment13
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns13
Writing as an 18th-Century Automaton12
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context12
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services12
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis12
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach12
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness11
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society11
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed11
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots11
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 202311
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques11
The Dawn of Generative AI-Enabled Political Activism: How Kenyan Gen Z Used ChatGPT and Protest GPTs to Mobilize10
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?10
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities10
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China10
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv10
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis9
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism9
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook9
Adaptive Self-Reflection as a Social Media Self-Effect: Insights from Computational Text Analyses of Self-Disclosures of Unreported Sexual Victimization in a Hashtag Campaign9
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment9
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey9
Modular Polyvocality: Community Detection and Semantic Analysis of Civil Society Discourse in English-Language #MahsaAmini Twitter Networks9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice8
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data8
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions8
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View8
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo8
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?8
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach8
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms8
The Human Soul and its Deceptions: Early Modern Imitation Games8
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults8
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data8
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy8
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics8
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations8
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias8
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology7
Not All Bots are Created Equal: The Impact of Bots Classification Techniques on Identification of Discursive Behaviors Around the COVID-19 Vaccine and Climate Change7
Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach7
Evolution of Deep Learning Models for Misinformation Detection in Social Media Textual Data: Background, Architectures, Datasets, and Emerging LLM Applications7
Who Are the Online Commenters? A Large-Scale Representative Survey to Explore the Identity and Motivation of Online News Commenters in Comparison to Non-Commenters7
AI’s Sociological Era7
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks7
Identifying Bots Through LLM-Generated Text in Open Narrative Responses: A Proof-of-Concept Study6
How Much Data Should I Request? Balancing Richness and Compliance in Digital Trace Data Donations6
Individual and Situational Factors Influencing Active Behavior in Professional Video Conferences With Strangers6
Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth6
Coordinated Computational Propaganda: Exploring Social Bot Activities During the July Revolution of Bangladesh6
Where You Are Is What You Get! Inconsistencies of Digital Trace Data across Download Locations6
Dynamic Analysis of the Timing of Survey Participation: An Application of Event History Analysis of the Stochastic Process of Response in a Probability-Based Multi-Wave Panel With Computer-Assisted In6
Unveiling the Veiled Threat: The Impact of Bots on COVID-19 Health Communication6
Welcome to the Brave New World: Lay Definitions of AI at Work and in Daily Life6
Leveraging VLLMs for Visual Clustering: Image-to-Text Mapping Shows Increased Semantic Capabilities and Interpretability6
Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events6
AI and Aesthetic Alienation: The Image and Creativity in Contemporary Culture5
Status Spill-Over in Cryptomarket for Illegal Goods5
Bridging Qualitative Data Silos: The Potential of Reusing Codings Through Machine Learning Based Cross-Study Code Linking5
The Sociology of Technical Choices in Predictive AI5
Nonparticipation Bias in Accelerometer-Based Studies and the Use of Propensity Scores5
Emotional Communication Cost: The Impact of Emotional Polarization on the Effectiveness of Government Responses5
Polio Beyond the Drop: Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy in Urdu Tweets Beyond Western Behavioral Models5
The Influence of Political Fit, Issue Fit, and Targeted Political Advertising Disclosures on Persuasion Knowledge, Party Evaluation, and Chilling Effects5
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Relevant YouTube Comments5
Profiling Digital Hate: A Multidimensional Measurement Approach Based on the Perspective API5
How Algorithms Promote Self-Radicalization: Audit of TikTok’s Algorithm Using a Reverse Engineering Method5
Alternative Layouts for Grid Questions in PC and Mobile Web Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation Using Response Quality Indicators and Survey Estimates5
They’re Coming for You! How Perceptions of Automation Affect Public Support for Universal Basic Income4
Covering the Campaign: Computational Tools for Measuring Differences in Candidate and Party News Coverage With Application to an Emerging Democracy4
Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research4
Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures4
Tell Me an Instagram Story: Ephemeral Communication and the 2018 Gubernatorial Elections4
Platform Politics in the U.S. Congress: Diffusion of TikTok and Threads4
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review4
Dual Identity in Repressive Contexts: An Agent-Based Model of Protest Dynamics4
“Depression is not Real; I Don’t Need Help”: Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media and Help Avoidance4
The Efficacy of Large Language Models and Crowd Annotation for Accurate Content Analysis of Political Social Media Messages4
The Spillover Effect of Internet usage on Job Satisfaction in the Digital Era: Evidence From Chinese Individual Survey Data4
Conspiracy or Public Service? Does Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Conspiracy Beliefs Among Americans?4
Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology4
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode?4
Is it Contagious? Does Parents’ Internet Addiction Impact Their Adolescents’ Internet Addiction?4
Dialogues Towards Sociologies of Generative AI4
Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data4
A Bottom-Up Approach for Ecological Inference4
A Transformer Model for Manifesto Classification Using Cross-Context Training: An Ecuadorian Case Study4
Crime and Calculation: The Decision-Making of Dark Web Actors4
Text Messages to Incentivise Response in a Web-First Sequential Mixed-Mode Survey4
Unblackboxing How Sociotemporalities Inform AI Accountability: The Case of Targeted Advertising3
Seeded Sequential LDA: A Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Topic-Specific Analysis of Sentences3
Online Polarization and Violence in the United States: A Computational Analysis of Viewer Comments on Partisan News Coverage of President Donald Trump’s First Assassination Attempt3
The Dark Sides of AI Advertising: The Integration of Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Information Quality Theory3
Take Action Now! A Longitudinal Study of Political Party Calls to Action Across Social Media Platforms3
Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Chinese Early Adolescents: Cognitive Reappraisal and Emotion Invalidation as Moderators3
Exploring Customer Citizenship Behavior in Social Commerce From the Parasocial Perspective3
Prompt Engineering for Large Language Model-Assisted Inductive Thematic Analysis3
EVKA—Fuzzy Modelling Based System for the Decision-Making Support of Community Workers3
Does the Media’s Partisanship Influence News Coverage on Artificial Intelligence Issues? Media Coverage Analysis on Artificial Intelligence Issues3
Improving Participation in Data Donation Studies: A Systematic Review of Factors Driving Participation and Evidence-Informed Best Practices3
Tracking Census Online Self-Completion Using Twitter Posts3
The Impact of Inequalities on Data Policies: Favelas Unified Dashboard Case Study3
Towards a Socioeconomics of Hype: Hype Dynamics and Symbolic Boundary Work Within the Speculative AI Bubble3
Online and Unkind: Examining the Personality Correlates of Online Political Incivility3
Retraction Notice: “Taxation Issues for Digital Financial Assets”3
Remember, You Can Complete This Survey Online! Web Survey Links and QR Codes in a Mixed-Mode Web and Mail General Population Survey3
Global Gender Inequality Through Explainable AI: Machine Learning, Clustering, and SHAP Insights3
A Typology of Aging Internet Users: Exploring Digital Gradations in Internet Skills and Uses3
Social Grooming on Social Media and Older Adults’ Life Satisfaction: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model3
Detecting Respondent Burden in Online Surveys: How Different Sources of Question Difficulty Influence Cursor Movements3
Why Device-Related Digital Inequalities Matter for E-Government Engagement?3
Media Representations of Healthcare Robotics in Norway 2000-2020: A Topic Modeling Approach2
Digital Surveillance and Relational Uncertainty: The Role of Geolocation Tracking in Romantic Relationships2
TikTok Brain: An Investigation of Short-Form Video Use, Self-Control, and Phubbing2
The Use of Religion Online by Indian Political Entities During the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Religiopolitical Propaganda on Social Media?2
The Unseen Targets of Hate: A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets2
From Search to Separation: Digital Behavioral Decoupling and the Predictive Power of Google Trends for Divorce Outcomes Across Four Western Nations2
From Concurrent to Push-To-Web Mixed-Mode: Experimental Design Change in the German Social Cohesion Panel2
Forecasting Civil Unrest in South Africa Using Social Media Data: A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach2
Computational Evidence for the Two-Dimensional Structure of Social Evaluation: Pandemic-Era Insights From Americans’ Perceptions of Chinese and Japanese on Twitter2
How Elites Invigorate Emotionality and Extremity in Digital Networks2
Combining Natural Language Processing and Statistical Methods to Assess Gender Gaps in the Mediated Personalization of Politics2
People, Platforms, and Places: The Conditional Effects of Psychological Distances on Livestream Viewership2
Artificial Intelligence in Government Weakens Citizens’ Affective Ties With Public Employees: Results From a Vignette Experiment2
Translation and Validation of the Brief Inventory of Technology Self-Efficacy (BITS): Simplified and Traditional Chinese Versions2
Performative Quantification: Design Choices Impact the Lessons of Empirical Surveys About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles2
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth From the Perspective of Population External System2
Understanding Narratives of Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions of Dutch Women: A Neural Topic Modeling Approach2
Embracing Dialectic Intersubjectivity: Coordination of Differential Perspectives in Content Analysis With LLM Persona Simulation2
Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research2
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data2
Network Issue Agenda Setting on Facebook: Exploring the Interplay Between Polarized Campaigns and Party Supporters2
Exploring the Use of a Large Language Model for Inductive Content Analysis in a Discourse Network Analysis Study2
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Do Shy Individuals Engage in Cyber Aggression? The Multiple Mediation of Passive Use and Relative Deprivation and the Moderation of Moral Sensitivity2
CORA : An Open-Source Software Tool for Combinational Regularity Analysis2
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