OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	155
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	111
Does a short-term deadline extension affect participation rates of an online survey? Experimental evidence from an online panel	105
Analysing causal asymmetry: a comparison of logistic regression and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	52
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	39
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments	38
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	27
Managing our personal traits in the field: exploring the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries	23
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	20
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	18
Should we care about pay ratios? Dealing with ISSP questions on actual and ideal wages from a comparative perspective	17
New-materialist bricolage: presenting an ontological position for qualitative internet-based research	16
Development and psychometric properties of a new observational coding system for sibling interactions	15
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	15
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices	14
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	12
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	11
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	11
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	10
Combining ‘sex-as-dirty work’ and ‘CMM’ frameworks for recruiting cisgender, heterosexual men for a study on sex, sexuality, and intimacy	10
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	9
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	9
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	9
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	9
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	8

Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	8
Critical ethical reflexivity (CER) in feminist narrative inquiry: reflections from cis researchers doing social work research with trans and non-binary people	7
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	7
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	7
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	7
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	7
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	7
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study	7
Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud: lessons from the Triple C project	7
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	7
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	6
Correction	6
Benefits of increasing the value of respondent incentives during the course of a longitudinal mixed-mode survey	6
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	6
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	6
Response to Hammersley	6
Exploring the practice of 10-11-year-olds as co-researchers: using a hybrid approach in educational research to promote children as interviewers	6
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	6
Does religious morality predict party affiliation better than political ideology? An empirical approach using psycho-social metrics constructed through item response modeling	6
Moving on from trials and errors: a discussion on the use of a forum as an online focus group in qualitative research	6
The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research	5
Five years later: lessons and insights from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	5
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	5
How sensitive are self-reports of offending?: the impact of recall periods on question sensitivity	5
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	5
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	4
Editorial note: referees	4
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing	4
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	4
Transforming a methodological dilemma into a rewarding research opportunity	4
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	4
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 pandemic	4
25^th ANNIVERSARY EDITORIAL	4
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	3
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior	3
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe	3
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	3
Causation in complex systems where human agency is in play	3
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	3
Does accuracy matter? Methodological considerations when using automated speech-to-text for social science research	3
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	3
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	3
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	3
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3

Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	3
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	3
Local data and upstream reporting as sources of error in the administrative data undercount of Covid 19	3
Effects of objective and perceived burden on response quality in web surveys	3
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	2
Including the voices and opinions of adults living with intellectual disability who are functionally nonverbal in a project directly concerning them – research note on the challenges and successes	2
A brief reply to David Byrne	2
Combining Q methodology and interviews using mixed methods integration: an exemplar study exploring over-the-counter codeine misuse in Australia	2
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	2
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment	2
First steps in qualitative secondary analysis: experiences of engaging with the primary research team	2
The effects of COVID-19 on test-retest reliability in a behavioral measure for impulsivity	2
‘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 services	2
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	2
Intertextual psychoanalytic-intersubjective analysis in qualitative research: ‘can two walk together, except they be agreed?’	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives	2
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	2
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	2
Internet-mediated phone interviews for remote qualitative educational research in the Global South during COVID–19: a researcher’s and participants’ experiential reflections	2
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions	2
Benefits and challenges of engaging Majority World children in interdisciplinary, multi-qualitative-method, mental health research	2
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	2
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Interviewing – a final contribution	2
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	2
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	2
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	2
Speculative methodological subjects	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	1
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	1
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	1
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	1
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	1
Pushing the Boundaries: Adapting research methodology to document the COVID-19 pandemic from a socio-behavioural perspective in a low/middle level income country: the case of South Africa	1
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	1
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	1
Reverse Coding: a Proposed Alternative Methodology for Identifying Evidentiary Warrants	1
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	1
What is Ragin’s indirect method of calibration?	1
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	1
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	1
Self-report questionnaires scrutinised: Do eye movements reveal individual differences in cognitive processes while completing a questionnaire?	1
Participative epistemology in social data science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches	1
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note	1
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	1
Ways of establishing rigour in the Abductive Research Strategy (ARS)	1
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models	1
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	1
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	1
Safeguarding personal integrity while collecting sensitive data using narrative interviews – a research note	1
Retracing participants in longitudinal studies: Trekking the timescape of fieldwork	1
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	1
Attack the bot: Mode effects and the challenges of conducting a mixed-mode household survey during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Agent-based modelling as a method for prediction in complex social systems	1
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	1
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	1
Analysing complexity: developing a modified phenomenological hermeneutical method of data analysis for multiple contexts	1
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	1
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	1
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	1
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: results of cognitive interviews in four European countries	1
Did they really say that? An agential realist approach to using computer assisted transcription software in qualitative data analysis	1
Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies	1
Using draw a person tasks to measure children’s Assigned gender Ability Beliefs	1