OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 7. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	214
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	116
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	49
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	46
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	43
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	43
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	37
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	35
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	27
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	25
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	25
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	19
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	15
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	15
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	14
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	13
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	12
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	12
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	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
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	10
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	8
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	7
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	7
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
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	7