International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality64
Response to Hammersley51
Correction37
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research28
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues26
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–202225
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities24
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects23
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right18
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel17
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?17
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children17
The ACT model for culturally competent research: an action-oriented framework for methodological integrity16
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research16
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data15
Becoming an insider through volunteer ethnography: costs, conflicts and benefits14
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya14
A brief reply to David Byrne14
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research13
Correction12
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods12
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain11
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal11
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research11
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults10
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks10
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?10
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia10
Towards a methodologically congruent framework for GenAI use in nonpositivist qualitative research10
The impact of bots and fraudulent responses on online survey data: the development of a 12-point data cleaning protocol used in a study of marginalized communities10
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences10
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”10
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’9
Methodological innovation, adaptation and disruption: the peculiar case of research with people with profound intellectual disabilities9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa8
Social research with women in Saudi Arabia: methodological challenges and insights from an insider perspective8
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)8
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics7
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection7
Responding to sensitive survey questions on violence and sexual behavior: experiences of children and young people in two humanitarian settings in sub-saharan Africa7
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination7
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey7
Social research through the lived experiences of Global South researchers: epistemic contributions from the South6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies6
Using webinar for longitudinal participant recruitment: a methodological case study introducing the ‘Academic Funnel’6
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics6
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths6
Generative visual dialogue: an exploratory methodological framework for AI-Assisted qualitative inquiry6
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues6
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index5
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project5
Ethics, rigour and agility of research and evaluation methods in a changing social and clinical context: Reflections from a psychosocial research centre on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic5
Participants or pretenders? Addressing the challenge of inauthentic participation encountered during three social research studies on experiences of food insecurity in the UK5
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies5
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews5
Empowered voices: perspectives of co-researchers with intellectual disabilities on inclusive research participation5
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence4
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs4
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice4
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups4
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research4
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating4
Engaging underserved communities in smartphone-based research: comparing mailings, advertisements, and in-person recruitment strategies3
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy3
Researching postcolonial memory: creativity and participation in contexts of colonialism and the British South Asian diaspora3
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts3
Strategies to account for time and process in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)3
Correction3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands3
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy3
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past3
Editorial Note: Referees3
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage3
Correction:3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices3
Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity2
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool2
Online survey data integrity: lessons learnt from investigating a bot attack on a small-scale educational study2
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”2
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 20192
'Silence doesn’t speak as loudly with whitefellas': using autoethnography to develop reflexivity during cross-cultural work in remote Aboriginal communities2
‘For Want of a Nail’: developing a transparent approach to retroduction and early initial programme theory development in a realist evaluation of community end of life care services2
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-192
Editorial note: referees2
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers2
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions2
Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups2
How we constructed the future in the past: the use of temporal complexity and imagined futures in interviewees’ justifications for their actions2
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action2
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research2
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach2
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics2
Exploring ‘I’ in research: reflexivity through a Lacanian lens2
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?2
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?2
The social organization of QCA scholarship: publication practices and educational integration2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students2
Prompt-imposed structure: a methodological evaluation of LLM-generated survey data for theory-based modeling2
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods2
How ‘co’ can you go? A qualitative inquiry on the key principles of co-creative research and their enactment in real-life practices1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch1
‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation1
An introduction to decolonial research1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world1
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion1
Comparing institutional trust: epistemological fallacies and how to avoid them1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science1
Visual models, piloting, and triangulation as core formative research practices1
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending1
Joining electronic health records and school boundary data: a proof-of-concept for assessing school’s influence on health1
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel1
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation1
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context1
Amplifying young voices through visual methods: reflections on using body mapping to capture student experiences during school closure1
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation1
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice1
Switching to self-completion protocols impacts item nonresponse patterns. Lessons from the European Social Survey rounds 9, 10 and 111
Conceptualising and co-designing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander systems approach to suicide prevention through Aboriginal participation action research1
How do people answer web surveys? The consequences of distractions, multitasking, and completion context1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives1
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development1
Studying local violence from outside the locality: critical reflections on remote qualitative research on hard-to-reach urban areas in Guatemala1
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice1
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts1
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors1
Critical method of document analysis1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-191
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography1
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 81
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups1
Assessing the impact of timing errors in sequence analysis1
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis1
Translating Q methodology results into survey questions for large-scale use: a comparison of approaches1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting1
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?1
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition1
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods1
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