OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 6. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting	141
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	94
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	90
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	44
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	33
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews	32
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	23
Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges	22
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	20
Using indigenous kaupapa Māori research methodology with constructivist grounded theory: generating a theoretical explanation of indigenous womens realities	20
Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers)	17
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	17
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	16
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	16
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	15
‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities	14
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: a loophole in ethics guidelines	14
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	14
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	13
Reflexivity through positionality meetings: religion, muslims and ‘non-religious’ researchers	13
Critical method of document analysis	12
The demise of the survey? A research note on trends in the use of survey data in the social sciences, 1939 to 2015	12
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	11
The influence of unpublished studies on results of recent meta-analyses: publication bias, the file drawer problem, and implications for the replication crisis	10
Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography	10

Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	10
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	9
Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers	9
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	9
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	9
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment	9
Respondent commitment: applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data	8
Exploring diversity through machine learning: a case for the use of decision trees in social science research	8
Recruiting stigmatised populations and managing negative commentary via social media: a case study of recruiting older LGBTI research participants in Australia	8
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	8
Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence	8
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis	7
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	7
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	7
Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues	7
Uncovering ethical concerns through reflexivity—ethics in practice in fieldwork	7
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior	7
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models	7
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	7
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
Say my name? Anonymity or not in elite interviewing	6
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	6
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	6
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	6
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study	6
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon	6
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	6
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	6
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	6
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	6
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures	6
What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective	6
Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data	6
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	6
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	6