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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	118
Correction	63
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	47
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	34
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	33
Response to Hammersley	30
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	19
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	16
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	16
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	16
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	15
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	14
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	11
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	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
The effects of COVID-19 on test-retest reliability in a behavioral measure for impulsivity	10
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 Ethiopia	9
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	8

Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	8
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	7
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	7
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	7
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	7
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	7
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	7
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	6
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	6
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	6
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
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	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	5
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	4
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing	3
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	3
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	3
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	3
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	3
Correction	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3

Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research: a replication study using imitation games about religion	2
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	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
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	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
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	2
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	2
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	2
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note	2
Say my name? Anonymity or not in elite interviewing	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Assessing the impact of missing data in youth overweight and obesity research: complete case analysis versus multiple imputation	1
Using the literature to create a scale: an innovative qualitative methodological piece	1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives	1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	1
Critical method of document analysis	1
How ‘co’ can you go? A qualitative inquiry on the key principles of co-creative research and their enactment in real-life practices	1
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	1
Transforming a methodological dilemma into a rewarding research opportunity	1
The use of vignettes in research on the social and educational inclusion of people with disabilities: a review of the literature	1
Ethical and practical considerations for including marginalised groups in quantitative survey research	1
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	1
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	1
Different understandings of the nature of ‘structural relationships’ in phenomenographic research: views of educational researchers	1
A critical realist explanation for the capabilities of people with disabilities in dealing with disasters	1
‘Meta’ analysis: considerations when using Facebook within research and evaluation studies: a research note	1
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	1
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1