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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	95
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	57
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	36
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	34
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	29
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	28
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	28
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	27
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
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	23
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	22
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	21
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	20
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	20
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	18
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	18
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	18
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	17
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	17
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	16
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	16
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	16
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	16
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	16
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	16

The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	15
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	15
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	14
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	14
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	14
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns	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
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	13
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	12
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	12
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	12
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	11
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	11
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	11
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	10
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	10
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	10
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	10
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	10
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	10
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	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	9
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	9
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	9
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	8
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	8
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	8
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	8
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis	8
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	8
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	8
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	8
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	8
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	7
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	7
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	7
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science	7
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	7
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	7
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	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
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	7
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	7

How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	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