Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 8. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research284
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified166
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream88
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables63
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework63
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning45
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data44
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)35
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys34
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research22
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes20
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model19
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models19
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies17
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention15
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202014
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate13
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula13
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat13
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study12
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily12
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic12
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research11
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric11
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate11
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry9
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork,9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?8
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility8
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery8
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