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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The online survey as a qualitative research tool	489
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting	115
‘The problem-centred expert interview’. Combining qualitative interviewing approaches for investigating implicit expert knowledge	109
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	67
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	66
Using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS; NVivo) to assist in the complex process of realist theory generation, refinement and testing	65
Assessing the effectiveness of video-based interviewing: a systematic comparison of video-conferencing based dyadic interviews and focus groups	42
Sex and the census: why surveys should not conflate sex and gender identity	35
The critical interpretive synthesis: an assessment of reporting practices	33
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	29
Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework	26
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	25
Social and causal complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): strategies to account for emergence	25
Podcast ethnography	23
Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing	20
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews	19
Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges	18
Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers)	15
The co-productive imagination: a creative, speculative and eventful approach to co-producing research	14
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	14
Using indigenous kaupapa Māori research methodology with constructivist grounded theory: generating a theoretical explanation of indigenous womens realities	13
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	13
Systematic social event modeling: a methodology for analyzing body-worn camera footage	13
Surveying migrant populations with respondent-driven sampling. Experiences from surveys of east-west migration in Europe	13
Key aspects to consider when conducting synchronous text-based online focus groups – a research note	12

Thinking through participatory action research with people with late-stage dementia: research note on mistakes, creative methods and partnerships	12
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	12
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	11
The demise of the survey? A research note on trends in the use of survey data in the social sciences, 1939 to 2015	11
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: a loophole in ethics guidelines	11
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	10
Reflexivity through positionality meetings: religion, muslims and ‘non-religious’ researchers	10
Re-approaching interview data through qualitative secondary analysis: interviews with internet gamblers	9
Beyond performative talk: critical observations on the radical critique of reading interview data	9
Using visual vignettes to explore sensitive topics: a research note on exploring attitudes towards people with albinism in Tanzania	9
‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities	9
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	9
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	8
Selective attrition in longitudinal studies: effective processes for Facebook tracing	8
Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography	8
Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues	7
Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers	7
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior	7
Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence	7
Social practice research in practice. Some methodological challenges in applying practice-based approach to the urban research	7
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	7
Respondent commitment: applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data	7
The influence of unpublished studies on results of recent meta-analyses: publication bias, the file drawer problem, and implications for the replication crisis	7
Critical method of document analysis	7
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	7
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	7
Counting the cost of difference: a reply to Sullivan	6
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	6
Literacy skills predict probability of refusal in follow-up wave: evidence from two longitudinal assessment surveys	6
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	6
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures	6
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	6
For the greater good? Ethical reflections on interviewing the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in qualitative research	6
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	6
The contribution of theory to an ethnographic case study on interprofessional placements in healthcare education	6
Exploring diversity through machine learning: a case for the use of decision trees in social science research	6
Sex and gender demographic questions: improving methodological quality, inclusivity, and ethical administration	6
Consent requires a relationship: rethinking group consent and its timing in ethnographic research	6
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	5
What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	5
Anxious women or complacent men? Anxiety of statistics in a sample of UK sociology undergraduates	5
Response to Fugard and Hines	5
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	5
Recruiting stigmatised populations and managing negative commentary via social media: a case study of recruiting older LGBTI research participants in Australia	5
Narrative rhythmanalysis: the art and politics of listening to women’s narratives of forced displacement	5
Uncovering ethical concerns through reflexivity—ethics in practice in fieldwork	5
From mixed methods to strategic research design	5

Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	4
Post-disciplinary realism	4
Analysing complexity: developing a modified phenomenological hermeneutical method of data analysis for multiple contexts	4
Why questions like ‘do networks matter?’ matter to methodology: how Agent-Based Modelling makes it possible to answer them	4
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	4
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	4
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models	4
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis	4
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	4
Driving complementarity in interdisciplinary research: a reflection	4
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	4
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	4
Using a survey to initiate and sustain productive group dialogue in focus groups	4
How to quantify qualitative characteristics of societal differences: a method for systematic comparison of qualitative data (SCQual)	4
Should trans people be postmodernist in the streets but positivist in the spreadsheets? A reply to Sullivan	4
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	4
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	4
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	4
Say my name? Anonymity or not in elite interviewing	3
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories	3
Is there a right not to be researched? Is there a right to do research? Some questions about informed consent and the principle of autonomy	3
Methodological challenges of designing a survey to capture young people’s (non-binary) affiliations in relationship to religion, sexuality and gender	3
Improving mail survey response rates in Japan: empirical tests for envelopes, request letters, questionnaires, and schedules	3
Advances in research on survey interview interaction	3
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	3
Core principles of grounded theory in a systematic review of environmental education for secondary students	3
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	3
Involving young people with life-limiting conditions in research on sex: the intersections of taboo and vulnerability	3
Researching while queer: a research note about a genderqueer lesbian conducting qualitative research in the southeastern United States	3
Nurse Effects on Non-response in Survey-Based Biomeasures	3
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment	3
Investigating the affective part of subjective well-being (SWB) by means of sentiment analysis	3
Moving on from trials and errors: a discussion on the use of a forum as an online focus group in qualitative research	3
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	3
Assessing general attentiveness to online panel surveys: the use of instructional manipulation checks	3
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	3
Positionality statement on studying male victims of intimate partner abuse in Zimbabwe: a research note	3
Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data	3
Interpreting practice: producing practical wisdom from qualitative study of practitioner experience	3
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	3
Local data and upstream reporting as sources of error in the administrative data undercount of Covid 19	3
Managing our personal traits in the field: exploring the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries	3
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	2
Roma undercount and the issue of undeclared ethnicity in the 2011 Romanian census	2
Using open web-based crime data for research: a word of caution – Research note	2
The feasibility and challenge of using administrative data: a case study of historical prisoner surveys	2
Students’ interactions in online asynchronous discussions in qualitative research methods coursework	2
Silence is not always golden: Reciprocal peer interviews as a method to engage youth in discussion on violence in Honduras	2
Participative epistemology in social data science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches	2
Item-pair measures of acquiescence: the artificial inflation of socially desirable responding	2
Involving people with experience of dementia in analysis of video recorded doctor-patient-carer interactions in care homes	2
How sensitive are self-reports of offending?: the impact of recall periods on question sensitivity	2
Quantification and realist methodologies	2
Analysing causal asymmetry: a comparison of logistic regression and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	2
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon	2
Visual vignettes for cross-national research	2
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	2
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	2
Introduction: making the case for qualitative interviews	2
(Un)expected exception: validating acquiescent response style factor in the Czech Republic	2
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	2
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	2
Critical ethical reflexivity (CER) in feminist narrative inquiry: reflections from cis researchers doing social work research with trans and non-binary people	2
Response to Hughes, Hughes, Sykes and Wright	2
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	2
I say, they say: effects of providing examples in a question about multitasking	2
Unpacking sensitive research: a stimulating exploration of an established concept	2
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	2
Self-report questionnaires scrutinised: Do eye movements reveal individual differences in cognitive processes while completing a questionnaire?	2
Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies	2
The ‘radical critique of interviews’: a response to recent comments	2
Mismatching middle options: consequences for attitude measurement in smartphone surveys	2