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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	124
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	64
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	48
Response to Hammersley	34
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	33
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	32
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	20
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	18
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	16
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	16
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	15
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	14
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
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
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	11
The effects of COVID-19 on test-retest reliability in a behavioral measure for impulsivity	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	11
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	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
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	10
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	10
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	10

The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach	9
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	8
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	8
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	7
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
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	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	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
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	4
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	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
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3
Correction	3
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon	3
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	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
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	3
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	3
Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	3
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	3

Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research: a replication study using imitation games about religion	2
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note	2
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	2
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	2
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	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
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	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
‘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
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	2
Say my name? Anonymity or not in elite interviewing	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