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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	66
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	38
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	33
Response to Hammersley	24
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	18
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	14
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	14
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	13
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	13
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	13
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	12
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	12
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	11
A brief reply to David Byrne	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	11
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	11
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	11
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	11
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	8
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	8
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	8
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	8

Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	8
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	8
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach	8
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	6
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	6
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	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
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography	4
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	4
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	4
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	4
Correction	4
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
Editorial note: referees	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	3
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	3
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	3
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	3
‘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	3

Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	3
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	3
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	3
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research: a replication study using imitation games about religion	2
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	2
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note	2
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	2
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	2
Critical method of document analysis	2
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
How ‘co’ can you go? A qualitative inquiry on the key principles of co-creative research and their enactment in real-life practices	2
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	2
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	2
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	2
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	2
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	2