OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	236
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	123
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	59
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	49
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	49
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	43
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	39
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	36
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	27
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	26
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	26
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	17
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	17
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	15
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	15