Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Sociological Methods & Research is 15. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research374
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified138
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables85
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream49
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework44
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning29
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data25
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model24
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions24
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys21
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research19
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)18
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites16
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes16
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage16
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations15
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention15
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