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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	197
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	105
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	43
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	42
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	41
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	38
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	36
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	34
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	24
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	24
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	23
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	19
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	16
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	13
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	12
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	11
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	11
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

Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	10
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	10
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	8
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	8
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
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	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