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 2021-08-01 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
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	17
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	15
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	14
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	13
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	13
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	11
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	11

Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	10
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	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
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	8
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	8
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
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7