OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	66
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	42
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	31
Examining the Characteristics That Differentiate Jihadi-Associated Cyberattacks Using Routine Activities Theory	27
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	24
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	23
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	23
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	22
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	22
Commonshare: A New Approach to Social Reputation for Online Collaborative Communities	22
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	21
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	20
Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification	17
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	16
A Routine Activities Approach to Evidence-Based Risk Assessment: Findings From Two Simulated Phishing Attacks	16
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	16
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	15
Use and Abuse of Social Media as a Punitive Remedy in Light of Criminal Law: A Tool or a Court? Analysis of the Chilean Regulation	15
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	15
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	15
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	15
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	15
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	14
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	14
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	14

Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	13
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	13
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	13
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	13
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	13
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	12
Predicting Question Difficulty in Web Surveys: A Machine Learning Approach Based on Mouse Movement Features	12
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	11
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	10
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	10
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	10
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	10
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	10
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	10
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	9
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	9
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	9
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	9
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	9
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	9
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	9
Adaptive Self-Reflection as a Social Media Self-Effect: Insights from Computational Text Analyses of Self-Disclosures of Unreported Sexual Victimization in a Hashtag Campaign	8
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	8
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	8
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	8
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	7
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	7
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	7
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	7
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	7
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	7
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	7
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science	6
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	6
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	6
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	6
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	6
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	6
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	6
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis	6
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	6
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	6
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	6
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	6
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	6
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	6

Not All Bots are Created Equal: The Impact of Bots Classification Techniques on Identification of Discursive Behaviors Around the COVID-19 Vaccine and Climate Change	5
Context-dependent Online Social Influence: Effect of Majority and Minority Comments on Posters and Lurkers	5
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Relevant YouTube Comments	5
Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach	5
Connections Between Internet, Social Media News Use, and Political Participation in Kenya	5
Facebook Users’ Satisfaction and Intention to Continue Using It: Applying the Expectation Confirmation Model	5
Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth	5
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 In	5
Individual and Situational Factors Influencing Active Behavior in Professional Video Conferences With Strangers	5
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	5
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	5
Unveiling the Veiled Threat: The Impact of Bots on COVID-19 Health Communication	5
Conditional Direction of Dependence Modeling: Application and Implementation in SPSS	5
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction	5
The Early Bird Catches the Worm! Setting a Deadline for Online Panel Recruitment Incentives	5
Status Spill-Over in Cryptomarket for Illegal Goods	4
The Effects of Mobile Social Media Use on Older Migrants’ Social Integration and Life Satisfaction: Use Types and Self-Esteem Perspective	4
The Influence of Political Fit, Issue Fit, and Targeted Political Advertising Disclosures on Persuasion Knowledge, Party Evaluation, and Chilling Effects	4
A Transformer Model for Manifesto Classification Using Cross-Context Training: An Ecuadorian Case Study	4
The Spillover Effect of Internet usage on Job Satisfaction in the Digital Era: Evidence From Chinese Individual Survey Data	4
Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data	4
Alternative Layouts for Grid Questions in PC and Mobile Web Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation Using Response Quality Indicators and Survey Estimates	4
Bridging Qualitative Data Silos: The Potential of Reusing Codings Through Machine Learning Based Cross-Study Code Linking	4
Mechanisms Underlying Choice-Set Formation: The Case of School Choice in Chile	4
Tell Me an Instagram Story: Ephemeral Communication and the 2018 Gubernatorial Elections	4
Partner Phubbing and Marital Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Marital Interaction and Marital Conflict	4
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study	4
Nonparticipation Bias in Accelerometer-Based Studies and the Use of Propensity Scores	4
How Algorithms Promote Self-Radicalization: Audit of TikTok’s Algorithm Using a Reverse Engineering Method	4
Social Media and Romantic Relationship: Excessive Social Media Use Leads to Relationship Conflicts, Negative Outcomes, and Addiction via Mediated Pathways	4
Predicting Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Do Socioeconomic Factors Matter?	4
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review	4
Text Messages to Incentivise Response in a Web-First Sequential Mixed-Mode Survey	4
A Typology of Aging Internet Users: Exploring Digital Gradations in Internet Skills and Uses	3
Retraction Notice: “Taxation Issues for Digital Financial Assets”	3
Analysis of the Social Network and the Evolution of the Influence of Ancient Chinese Poets	3
Can Twitter be a Reliable Proxy to Characterize Nation-wide Human Mobility? A Case Study of Spain	3
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode?	3
Covering the Campaign: Computational Tools for Measuring Differences in Candidate and Party News Coverage With Application to an Emerging Democracy	3
Is it Contagious? Does Parents’ Internet Addiction Impact Their Adolescents’ Internet Addiction?	3
Remember, You Can Complete This Survey Online! Web Survey Links and QR Codes in a Mixed-Mode Web and Mail General Population Survey	3
Online Addictions Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Iran: The Role of Attachment Styles and Gender	3
Does the Media’s Partisanship Influence News Coverage on Artificial Intelligence Issues? Media Coverage Analysis on Artificial Intelligence Issues	3
They’re Coming for You! How Perceptions of Automation Affect Public Support for Universal Basic Income	3
“Depression is not Real; I Don’t Need Help”: Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media and Help Avoidance	3
A Distributional Semantic Online Lexicon for Linguistic Explorations of Societies	3
Therapeutic Affordances of Social Media and Associated Quality of Life Outcomes in Young Adults	3
Political Disaffection in the Digital Age: The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy	3
Seeded Sequential LDA: A Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Topic-Specific Analysis of Sentences	3
The Illicit Ecosystem of Hacking: A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Website Defacement Groups	3
Dual Identity in Repressive Contexts: An Agent-Based Model of Protest Dynamics	3
Standby Ties that Mobilize: Social Media Platforms and Civic Engagement	3
Virtually Enhancing Public Engagement During the Pandemic: Measuring the Impact of Virtual Reality Powered Immersive Videos on Corporate Social Responsibility Communication	3
Why Device-Related Digital Inequalities Matter for E-Government Engagement?	2
Response Times and Subjective Complexity of Food Choices: A Web-Based Experiment Across 3 Countries	2
A Multilevel Perspective to Social Media Influentials’ Frame Building Across Crises	2
Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations	2
The Unseen Targets of Hate: A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets	2
Network Issue Agenda Setting on Facebook: Exploring the Interplay Between Polarized Campaigns and Party Supporters	2
Artificial Intelligence in Government: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	2
Combining Natural Language Processing and Statistical Methods to Assess Gender Gaps in the Mediated Personalization of Politics	2
Tracking Census Online Self-Completion Using Twitter Posts	2
Detecting Respondent Burden in Online Surveys: How Different Sources of Question Difficulty Influence Cursor Movements	2
The Impact of Inequalities on Data Policies: Favelas Unified Dashboard Case Study	2
TikTok Brain: An Investigation of Short-Form Video Use, Self-Control, and Phubbing	2
Translation and Validation of the Brief Inventory of Technology Self-Efficacy (BITS): Simplified and Traditional Chinese Versions	2
Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research	2
Data as a Weapon: The Evolution of Hong Kong Protesters’ Doxing Strategies	2
Online and Unkind: Examining the Personality Correlates of Online Political Incivility	2
Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Chinese Early Adolescents: Cognitive Reappraisal and Emotion Invalidation as Moderators	2
Social Grooming on Social Media and Older Adults’ Life Satisfaction: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model	2
The Dark Sides of AI Advertising: The Integration of Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Information Quality Theory	2
The Expression of Cultural Identities in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement: A Semantic Network Analysis of Tweets	2
People, Platforms, and Places: The Conditional Effects of Psychological Distances on Livestream Viewership	2
The Use of Religion Online by Indian Political Entities During the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Religiopolitical Propaganda on Social Media?	2
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data	2
Exploring Customer Citizenship Behavior in Social Commerce From the Parasocial Perspective	2
How Elites Invigorate Emotionality and Extremity in Digital Networks	2