OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	118
Correction	63
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	47
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	34
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	33
Response to Hammersley	30
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	19
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	16
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	16
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	16
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	15
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	14
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	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	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
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
The effects of COVID-19 on test-retest reliability in a behavioral measure for impulsivity	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	9
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	8

Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	8
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach	8
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	7
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	7
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	7
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	7
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	7
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	7
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	6
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	6
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	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
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	6
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	6
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	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
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	5
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5