OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Computer Review is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	105
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	64
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	39
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	35
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	31
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	29
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	29
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	28
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	28
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	24
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	24
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	22
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	21
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	21
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	20
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	18
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	18
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	18
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	18
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	17
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	17
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	17
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	17
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	16
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	16

The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	16
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns	15
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	15
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	14
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	14
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	14
Media Visibility and Information-Seeking: Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)	14
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	14
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	13
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	13
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	13
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	12
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	12
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	12
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	12
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	12
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	11
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	11
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	11
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	11
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	11
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	10
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	10
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	10
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	10
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	10
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	10
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis	10
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	9
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	9
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	9
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	8
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science	8
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	8
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	8
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	8
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	8
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	8
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	8
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	8
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	8
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	8
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	8
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	7
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	7
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	7
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	7
Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth	7

Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	7
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	7
AI’s Sociological Era	7
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	7
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	7
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	7
Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach	7
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	7