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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	155
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	111
Does a short-term deadline extension affect participation rates of an online survey? Experimental evidence from an online panel	105
Analysing causal asymmetry: a comparison of logistic regression and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	52
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	39
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments	38
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	27
Managing our personal traits in the field: exploring the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries	23
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	20
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	18
Should we care about pay ratios? Dealing with ISSP questions on actual and ideal wages from a comparative perspective	17
New-materialist bricolage: presenting an ontological position for qualitative internet-based research	16
Development and psychometric properties of a new observational coding system for sibling interactions	15
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	15
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices	14
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	12
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	11
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	11
Combining ‘sex-as-dirty work’ and ‘CMM’ frameworks for recruiting cisgender, heterosexual men for a study on sex, sexuality, and intimacy	10
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	10
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	9
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	9
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	9
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	9
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	8

Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	8
Critical ethical reflexivity (CER) in feminist narrative inquiry: reflections from cis researchers doing social work research with trans and non-binary people	7
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	7
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	7
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	7
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	7
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	7
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study	7
Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud: lessons from the Triple C project	7
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	7
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	6
Correction	6
Benefits of increasing the value of respondent incentives during the course of a longitudinal mixed-mode survey	6
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	6
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	6
Response to Hammersley	6
Exploring the practice of 10-11-year-olds as co-researchers: using a hybrid approach in educational research to promote children as interviewers	6
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	6
Does religious morality predict party affiliation better than political ideology? An empirical approach using psycho-social metrics constructed through item response modeling	6
Moving on from trials and errors: a discussion on the use of a forum as an online focus group in qualitative research	6
Five years later: lessons and insights from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	5
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	5
How sensitive are self-reports of offending?: the impact of recall periods on question sensitivity	5
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	5
The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research	5
Editorial note: referees	4
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing	4
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	4
Transforming a methodological dilemma into a rewarding research opportunity	4
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	4
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	4
25^th ANNIVERSARY EDITORIAL	4
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	4