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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	60
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	40
Response to Hammersley	31
Correction	25
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	24
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	23
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	22
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities	18
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects	17
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	15
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	14
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	14
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	14
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	13
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	13
Correction	12
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	11
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”	10

Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	10
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research	10
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	10
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	9
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	9
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	8
Responding to sensitive survey questions on violence and sexual behavior: experiences of children and young people in two humanitarian settings in sub-saharan Africa	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	8
The impact of bots and fraudulent responses on online survey data: the development of a 12-point data cleaning protocol used in a study of marginalized communities	8
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Using webinar for longitudinal participant recruitment: a methodological case study introducing the ‘Academic Funnel’	7
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths	6
Participants or pretenders? Addressing the challenge of inauthentic participation encountered during three social research studies on experiences of food insecurity in the UK	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
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	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	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
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	5
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Engaging underserved communities in smartphone-based research: comparing mailings, advertisements, and in-person recruitment strategies	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Strategies to account for time and process in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	4
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4
Researching postcolonial memory: creativity and participation in contexts of colonialism and the British South Asian diaspora	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4

Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	4
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	4
Correction	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Correction:	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
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	3
Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	2
Editorial note: referees	2
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	2
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”	2
Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups	2
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	2
Exploring ‘I’ in research: reflexivity through a Lacanian lens	2
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	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
'Silence doesn’t speak as loudly with whitefellas': using autoethnography to develop reflexivity during cross-cultural work in remote Aboriginal communities	2
Prompt-imposed structure: a methodological evaluation of LLM-generated survey data for theory-based modeling	2
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?	2
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	2
Online survey data integrity: lessons learnt from investigating a bot attack on a small-scale educational study	2
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	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
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	2
How we constructed the future in the past: the use of temporal complexity and imagined futures in interviewees’ justifications for their actions	2
An introduction to decolonial research	1
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	1
Conceptualising and co-designing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander systems approach to suicide prevention through Aboriginal participation action research	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research	1
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation	1
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	1
Assessing the impact of timing errors in sequence 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
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	1
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	1
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	1
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Reaching across the political aisle: overcoming challenges in using social media for recruiting politically diverse respondents	1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography	1
Switching to self-completion protocols impacts item nonresponse patterns. Lessons from the European Social Survey rounds 9, 10 and 11	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	1
How do people answer web surveys? The consequences of distractions, multitasking, and completion context	1
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	1
Studying local violence from outside the locality: critical reflections on remote qualitative research on hard-to-reach urban areas in Guatemala	1
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	1
Visual models, piloting, and triangulation as core formative research practices	1
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	1
Critical method of document analysis	1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1
Translating Q methodology results into survey questions for large-scale use: a comparison of approaches	1
Amplifying young voices through visual methods: reflections on using body mapping to capture student experiences during school closure	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	1