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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The online survey as a qualitative research tool	513
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting	122
‘The problem-centred expert interview’. Combining qualitative interviewing approaches for investigating implicit expert knowledge	113
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	70
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	69
Using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS; NVivo) to assist in the complex process of realist theory generation, refinement and testing	67
Assessing the effectiveness of video-based interviewing: a systematic comparison of video-conferencing based dyadic interviews and focus groups	43
Sex and the census: why surveys should not conflate sex and gender identity	35
The critical interpretive synthesis: an assessment of reporting practices	33
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	32
Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework	27
Social and causal complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): strategies to account for emergence	25
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	25
Podcast ethnography	24
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews	20
Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing	20
Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges	18
The co-productive imagination: a creative, speculative and eventful approach to co-producing research	15
Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers)	15
Surveying migrant populations with respondent-driven sampling. Experiences from surveys of east-west migration in Europe	15
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	14
Systematic social event modeling: a methodology for analyzing body-worn camera footage	14
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	14
Using indigenous kaupapa Māori research methodology with constructivist grounded theory: generating a theoretical explanation of indigenous womens realities	14
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size	13

The demise of the survey? A research note on trends in the use of survey data in the social sciences, 1939 to 2015	12
Reflexivity through positionality meetings: religion, muslims and ‘non-religious’ researchers	12
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: a loophole in ethics guidelines	12
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	12
Key aspects to consider when conducting synchronous text-based online focus groups – a research note	12
Thinking through participatory action research with people with late-stage dementia: research note on mistakes, creative methods and partnerships	12
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	10
‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities	10
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination	10
Beyond performative talk: critical observations on the radical critique of reading interview data	9
Re-approaching interview data through qualitative secondary analysis: interviews with internet gamblers	9
Using visual vignettes to explore sensitive topics: a research note on exploring attitudes towards people with albinism in Tanzania	9
Selective attrition in longitudinal studies: effective processes for Facebook tracing	8
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	8
Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography	8
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	8
The influence of unpublished studies on results of recent meta-analyses: publication bias, the file drawer problem, and implications for the replication crisis	8
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	8
Social practice research in practice. Some methodological challenges in applying practice-based approach to the urban research	7
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation	7
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	7
Critical method of document analysis	7
Respondent commitment: applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data	7
Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence	7
Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues	7
Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers	7
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior	7
For the greater good? Ethical reflections on interviewing the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in qualitative research	6
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	6
The contribution of theory to an ethnographic case study on interprofessional placements in healthcare education	6
Exploring diversity through machine learning: a case for the use of decision trees in social science research	6
Sex and gender demographic questions: improving methodological quality, inclusivity, and ethical administration	6
Consent requires a relationship: rethinking group consent and its timing in ethnographic research	6
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	6
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures	6
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	6
Literacy skills predict probability of refusal in follow-up wave: evidence from two longitudinal assessment surveys	6
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis	6
Counting the cost of difference: a reply to Sullivan	6
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	6
Narrative rhythmanalysis: the art and politics of listening to women’s narratives of forced displacement	5
Uncovering ethical concerns through reflexivity—ethics in practice in fieldwork	5
From mixed methods to strategic research design	5
Anxious women or complacent men? Anxiety of statistics in a sample of UK sociology undergraduates	5
What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Post-disciplinary realism	5
Response to Fugard and Hines	5
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	5

Recruiting stigmatised populations and managing negative commentary via social media: a case study of recruiting older LGBTI research participants in Australia