OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting	141
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	94
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	90
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	44
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	33
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews	32
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	23
Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges	22
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	20
Using indigenous kaupapa Māori research methodology with constructivist grounded theory: generating a theoretical explanation of indigenous womens realities	20
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	17
Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers)	17
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	16
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	16
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	15
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	14
‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities	14
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: a loophole in ethics guidelines	14
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	13
Reflexivity through positionality meetings: religion, muslims and ‘non-religious’ researchers	13
The demise of the survey? A research note on trends in the use of survey data in the social sciences, 1939 to 2015	12
Critical method of document analysis	12
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	11
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	10
The influence of unpublished studies on results of recent meta-analyses: publication bias, the file drawer problem, and implications for the replication crisis	10

Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography	10
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	9
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment	9
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	9
Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers	9
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	9
Exploring diversity through machine learning: a case for the use of decision trees in social science research	8
Recruiting stigmatised populations and managing negative commentary via social media: a case study of recruiting older LGBTI research participants in Australia	8
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	8
Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence	8
Respondent commitment: applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data	8
Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues	7
Uncovering ethical concerns through reflexivity—ethics in practice in fieldwork	7
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior	7
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models	7
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	7
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	7
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis	7
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	7
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	7
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures	6
What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective	6
Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data	6
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	6
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
Say my name? Anonymity or not in elite interviewing	6
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	6
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	6
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	6
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study	6
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon	6
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	6
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	6
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	6
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	6
Analysing complexity: developing a modified phenomenological hermeneutical method of data analysis for multiple contexts	5
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	5
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	5
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	5
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	5
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	4
Involving young people with life-limiting conditions in research on sex: the intersections of taboo and vulnerability	4
Analysing causal asymmetry: a comparison of logistic regression and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	4
Assessing general attentiveness to online panel surveys: the use of instructional manipulation checks	4
Moving on from trials and errors: a discussion on the use of a forum as an online focus group in qualitative research	4
How to quantify qualitative characteristics of societal differences: a method for systematic comparison of qualitative data (SCQual)	4
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	4
Combining ‘sex-as-dirty work’ and ‘CMM’ frameworks for recruiting cisgender, heterosexual men for a study on sex, sexuality, and intimacy	3

How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	3
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	3
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	3
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	3
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	3
Did they really say that? An agential realist approach to using computer assisted transcription software in qualitative data analysis	3
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	3
Managing our personal traits in the field: exploring the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries	3
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	3
The feasibility and challenge of using administrative data: a case study of historical prisoner surveys	3
Using the literature to create a scale: an innovative qualitative methodological piece	3
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	3
Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies	3
Nurse Effects on Non-response in Survey-Based Biomeasures	3
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	3
Quantification and realist methodologies	3
From aggregations to multimethod case configurations. Case diversity in quantitative analysis when explaining COVID-19 fatalities	3
Feeling our way: methodological explorations on researching touch through uncertainty	3
Visual vignettes for cross-national research	3
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories	3
Involving people with experience of dementia in analysis of video recorded doctor-patient-carer interactions in care homes	3
Does accuracy matter? Methodological considerations when using automated speech-to-text for social science research	3
Development and psychometric properties of a new observational coding system for sibling interactions	2
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	2
Surveying through gatekeepers in social research: methodological problems and suggestions	2
Digital qualitative research workflows: a reflexivity framework for technological consequences	2
Agent-based modelling as a method for prediction in complex social systems	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	2
The ‘radical critique of interviews’: a response to recent comments	2
Local data and upstream reporting as sources of error in the administrative data undercount of Covid 19	2
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices	2
Critical ethical reflexivity (CER) in feminist narrative inquiry: reflections from cis researchers doing social work research with trans and non-binary people	2
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	2
Parents’ perceptions of parental consent procedures for social science research in the school context	2
Now, later, or never? Using response-time patterns to predict panel attrition	2
Unpacking sensitive research: a stimulating exploration of an established concept	2
Self-report questionnaires scrutinised: Do eye movements reveal individual differences in cognitive processes while completing a questionnaire?	2
Participative epistemology in social data science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches	2
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models	2
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	2
How sensitive are self-reports of offending?: the impact of recall periods on question sensitivity	2
Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud: lessons from the Triple C project	2
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	2
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	2
Bystanders and response bias in face-to-face surveys in Africa	2
Coverage bias: the impact of eligibility constraints on mobile phone-based sampling and data collection	2
Safeguarding personal integrity while collecting sensitive data using narrative interviews – a research note	2
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	2
The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions	2
Reverse Coding: a Proposed Alternative Methodology for Identifying Evidentiary Warrants	2
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	2
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	2