Sociological Methods & 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research268
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified155
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream80
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies60
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework59
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning44
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables42
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data32
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)31
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys20
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies19
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research18
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model16
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention14
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate13
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202013
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery12
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily11
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate11
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study11
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages10
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research10
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork,8
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models8
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery7
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?7
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility7
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