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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	60
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	40
Response to Hammersley	31
Correction	25
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	24
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	23
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	22
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities	18
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects	17
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	15
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
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	14
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	14
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	13
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	13
Correction	12
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	11
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”	10
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	10
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research	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
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	9
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	9
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	9
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	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	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	8
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	8
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Using webinar for longitudinal participant recruitment: a methodological case study introducing the ‘Academic Funnel’	7
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	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	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths	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
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	5
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Strategies to account for time and process in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	4
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4
Researching postcolonial memory: creativity and participation in contexts of colonialism and the British South Asian diaspora	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	4
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	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