OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Computer Review 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	153
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	92
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	50
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	46
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	44
Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation in a Social Multiplayer Online Game: Player Influence Dynamics in Sky: Children of Light	35
Evaluating the AI Tool “Elicit” as a Semi-Automated Second Reviewer for Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews: A Proof-of-Concept	32
States of Abortion Talk: Social Media Responses to Threats and Opportunities Post-Dobbs	31
Harnessing Big Data, Hindered by Bias: Evaluating TikTok Research API for Fair and Optimal Social Sciences	31
α\|D〉+β\|H〉: Exploration of Quantum Deep Learning on Humanities Data from the Perspective of Digital Humanities	31
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	30
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	23
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	23
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	22
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	22
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	21
Online Information Exposure, Knowledge Development, and AI Anxiety: Extending the Cognitive Mediation Model to Explain GenAI Adoption in China	21
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	19
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	18
Elite Polarisation on Twitter/X: Structural and Behavioural Dynamics in Public Discourse	18
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	15
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	15
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	15
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	15
Unmasking Coordination: How Inauthentic Behavior Emerged and Diffusion During the Russia–Ukraine War on Twitter	14

Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	14
Media Visibility and Information-Seeking: Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)	14
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	14
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	14
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns	13
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	13
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	13
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	13
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	13
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	12
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	12
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	12
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	11
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	11
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	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	10
Writing as an 18th-Century Automaton	10
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	10
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	10
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	10
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	10
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	10
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	10
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	9
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	9
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	9
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	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	9
The Dawn of Generative AI-Enabled Political Activism: How Kenyan Gen Z Used ChatGPT and Protest GPTs to Mobilize	9
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	9
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis	9
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	9
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	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
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	8
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	8
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	8
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	8
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	7
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	7
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	7
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	7
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	7
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	7
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	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
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	7

Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	7
The Human Soul and its Deceptions: Early Modern Imitation Games	7
AI’s Sociological Era	7
Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth	6
The Early Bird Catches the Worm! Setting a Deadline for Online Panel Recruitment Incentives	6
Leveraging VLLMs for Visual Clustering: Image-to-Text Mapping Shows Increased Semantic Capabilities and Interpretability	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	6
Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events	6
Identifying Bots Through LLM-Generated Text in Open Narrative Responses: A Proof-of-Concept Study	6
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Relevant YouTube Comments	6
Coordinated Computational Propaganda: Exploring Social Bot Activities During the July Revolution of Bangladesh	6
Who Are the Online Commenters? A Large-Scale Representative Survey to Explore the Identity and Motivation of Online News Commenters in Comparison to Non-Commenters	6
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	6
Evolution of Deep Learning Models for Misinformation Detection in Social Media Textual Data: Background, Architectures, Datasets, and Emerging LLM Applications	6
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	6
Unveiling the Veiled Threat: The Impact of Bots on COVID-19 Health Communication	6
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	6