Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified186
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research95
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework59
Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries51
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables42
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream36
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 Data28
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites27
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions27
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)26
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage26
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys22
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research21
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model17
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies17
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes16
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations16
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202015
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention15
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula14
Beyond Proximity: Investigating Crime With Organic Neighborhoods and a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach14
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery13
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat13
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research12
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate12
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study12
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research10
Sampling in Video-Based Social Sciences10
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text10
Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes10
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages9
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?9
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