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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	162
Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation in a Social Multiplayer Online Game: Player Influence Dynamics in Sky: Children of Light	95
Harnessing Big Data, Hindered by Bias: Evaluating TikTok Research API for Fair and Optimal Social Sciences	53
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	52
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	45
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	36
α\|D〉+β\|H〉: Exploration of Quantum Deep Learning on Humanities Data from the Perspective of Digital Humanities	34
States of Abortion Talk: Social Media Responses to Threats and Opportunities Post-Dobbs	34
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	32
Evaluating the AI Tool “Elicit” as a Semi-Automated Second Reviewer for Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews: A Proof-of-Concept	32
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	32
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	23
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	23
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	23
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	23
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	22
Elite Polarisation on Twitter/X: Structural and Behavioural Dynamics in Public Discourse	21
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	21
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	19
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	17
Online Information Exposure, Knowledge Development, and AI Anxiety: Extending the Cognitive Mediation Model to Explain GenAI Adoption in China	17
Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns	16
Unmasking Coordination: How Inauthentic Behavior Emerged and Diffusion During the Russia–Ukraine War on Twitter	15
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	15
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	15

Media Visibility and Information-Seeking: Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)	15
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	14
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	14
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	14
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	14
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	14
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	13
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	12
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	12
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	12
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	12
Writing as an 18th-Century Automaton	12
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	11
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	11
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	11
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	11
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	10
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	10
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	10
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	10
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	10
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	9
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	9
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	9
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	9
The Dawn of Generative AI-Enabled Political Activism: How Kenyan Gen Z Used ChatGPT and Protest GPTs to Mobilize	9
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	8
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	8
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
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	8
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	8
Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis	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	8
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	8
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	7
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	7
The Human Soul and its Deceptions: Early Modern Imitation Games	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
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	7
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	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
AI’s Sociological Era	7
Evolution of Deep Learning Models for Misinformation Detection in Social Media Textual Data: Background, Architectures, Datasets, and Emerging LLM Applications	7
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	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
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