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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	64
Response to Hammersley	51
Correction	37
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	28
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	26
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	25
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities	24
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects	23
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	18
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	17
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	17
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	17
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	16
The ACT model for culturally competent research: an action-oriented framework for methodological integrity	16
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	15
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	14
A brief reply to David Byrne	14
Becoming an insider through volunteer ethnography: costs, conflicts and benefits	14
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	13
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
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
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	11
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	10

Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	10
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”	10
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	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
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	10
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	10
Towards a methodologically congruent framework for GenAI use in nonpositivist qualitative research	10
Methodological innovation, adaptation and disruption: the peculiar case of research with people with profound intellectual disabilities	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	8
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	8
Social research with women in Saudi Arabia: methodological challenges and insights from an insider perspective	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	7
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	7
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
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	7
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	6
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths	6
Generative visual dialogue: an exploratory methodological framework for AI-Assisted qualitative inquiry	6
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	6
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	6
Social research through the lived experiences of Global South researchers: epistemic contributions from the South	6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
Using webinar for longitudinal participant recruitment: a methodological case study introducing the ‘Academic Funnel’	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Empowered voices: perspectives of co-researchers with intellectual disabilities on inclusive research participation	5
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project	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
Participants or pretenders? Addressing the challenge of inauthentic participation encountered during three social research studies on experiences of food insecurity in the UK	5
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	5
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	4
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	4
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	4
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4