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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	46
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	35
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	24
Response to Hammersley	19
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	18
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	17
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	17
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	16
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	15
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	13
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	12
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	12
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
A brief reply to David Byrne	12
Correction	11
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	11
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	11
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	9
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	9

Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	8
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	8
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	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	5
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Manuscript with author details – lessons learnt: imposters in online focus groups	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	5
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	4
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	4
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	4
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
Correction	4
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	4
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	3

A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Editorial note: referees	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity	3
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	3
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	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
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	2
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”	2
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	2
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?	2
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Visual models, piloting, and triangulation as core formative research practices	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
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	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
Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition	2
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	1
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	1
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Amplifying young voices through visual methods: reflections on using body mapping to capture student experiences during school closure	1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	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
Critical method of document analysis	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography	1