OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	59
Response to Hammersley	35
Correction	29
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	25
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	23
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	22
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	19
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects	17
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	15
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities	15
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	14
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	14
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	13
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	13
Correction	12
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research	11
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	11
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	9

Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	9
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”	9
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Responding to sensitive survey questions on violence and sexual behavior: experiences of children and young people in two humanitarian settings in sub-saharan Africa	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	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
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project	5
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	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
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	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
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Correction	4
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Engaging underserved communities in smartphone-based research: comparing mailings, advertisements, and in-person recruitment strategies	4
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
Correction:	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	4
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4

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