OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	298
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	185
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	103
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	70
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	67
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	47
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data	45
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	35
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	34
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	22
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	20
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	20
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	19
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	17
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	17
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	16
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	15
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	14
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	14
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	13
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	13
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula	13
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	12

In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	12
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research	12
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	12
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	11
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	11
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	11
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study	11
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	9
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	9
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	9
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	9
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	8
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	8
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?	8
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	8
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	7
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	7
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	7
Simulation-Based Sensitivity Analysis in Optimal Treatment Regimes and Causal Decomposition With Individualized Interventions	7
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	6
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	6
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	6
Two-sample Age-period-cohort Models	6
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	6
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	6
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	5
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	5
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	5
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	5
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	5
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	5
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	5
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	4
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	4
An Exploration of the Presence of Positive-Results Bias in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	4
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	4
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	4
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	4
Deep Learning With DAGs	4
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	4
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	4

Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	3
Estimating and Correcting Degree Ratio Bias in the Network Scale-up Method	3
An Ordinal Item Response Model for Understanding Attitudes	3
Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?	3
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	3
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	3
Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses	3
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	3