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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	374
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	138
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	85
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	49
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	44
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	29
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data	25
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions	24
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	24
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	21
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	19
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	18
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	16
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage	16
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	16
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	15
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	14
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	13
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula	13
Sampling in Video-Based Social Sciences	12
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	12
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	12

Beyond Proximity: Investigating Crime With Organic Neighborhoods and a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12
Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes	11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	11
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	10
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research	10
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text	10
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	8
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	8
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	7
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	7
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	6
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	6
Simulation-Based Sensitivity Analysis in Optimal Treatment Regimes and Causal Decomposition With Individualized Interventions	6
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	5
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	5
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	5
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?	5
Two-sample Age-period-cohort Models	4
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	4
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	4
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	4
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	4
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	4
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	4
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	4
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	3
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	3
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	3
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	3
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	3
Deep Learning With DAGs	3
An Exploration of the Presence of Positive-Results Bias in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	3