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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	111
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	68
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	43
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	37
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	33
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	31
Evaluating the AI Tool “Elicit” as a Semi-Automated Second Reviewer for Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews: A Proof-of-Concept	31
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	29
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	28
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	25
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	24
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	24
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	22
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	21
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	21
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	19
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	19
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	19
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	19
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	18
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns	18
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	18
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	17
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	17
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	16

The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	16
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	16
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
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	15
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	14
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	14
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	14
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	13
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	13
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	13
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	13
Media Visibility and Information-Seeking: Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)	13
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	13
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	12
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	12
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	12
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	12
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	11
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	11
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	11
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	11
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	11
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	10
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	10
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	10
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	10
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis	10
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	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
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	10
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	9
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	9
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	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
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science	9
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	9
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	9
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	8
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	8
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	8
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	8
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	8
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	8
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	8
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	8

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	7
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	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
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	7
Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth	7
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	7
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	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
Context-dependent Online Social Influence: Effect of Majority and Minority Comments on Posters and Lurkers	7
AI’s Sociological Era	7
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	7
The Early Bird Catches the Worm! Setting a Deadline for Online Panel Recruitment Incentives	7