OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Computer Review is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Decisions of the Turkish Constitutional Court	62
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis	32
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	31
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	26
Polarization of Opinions on COVID-19 Measures: Integrating Twitter and Survey Data	26
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data	25
Participatory Inequality Across Countries: Contacting Public Officials Online and Offline	23
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth From the Perspective of Population External System	22
Open Government Maturity Models: A Global Comparison	22
Loneliness and Anxiety Among Chinese Medical Students: The Mediating Role of Mobile Phone Addiction and the Moderating Role of Gender	21
Dual Identity in Repressive Contexts: An Agent-Based Model of Protest Dynamics	21
Commonshare: A New Approach to Social Reputation for Online Collaborative Communities	20
AI Chatbots in Political Campaigns: A Practical Experience in the EU’s 2024 Parliament Elections	20
Understanding Narratives of Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions of Dutch Women: A Neural Topic Modeling Approach	19
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	18
Media Representations of Healthcare Robotics in Norway 2000-2020: A Topic Modeling Approach	17
Examining the Characteristics That Differentiate Jihadi-Associated Cyberattacks Using Routine Activities Theory	15
Divided by the Algorithm? The (Limited) Effects of Content- and Sentiment-Based News Recommendation on Affective, Ideological, and Perceived Polarization	15
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review	15
Network Issue Agenda Setting on Facebook: Exploring the Interplay Between Polarized Campaigns and Party Supporters	15
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	14
Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research	14
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	14
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode?	14
Evaluating the Demographic and Health Surveys Mode Switch From PAPI to CAPI: An Experiment From Turkey	14

From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	14
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	13
The Use of Religion Online by Indian Political Entities During the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Religiopolitical Propaganda on Social Media?	13
Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data	13
People, Platforms, and Places: The Conditional Effects of Psychological Distances on Livestream Viewership	12
Artificial Intelligence, Rationalization, and the Limits of Control in the Public Sector: The Case of Tax Policy Optimization	12
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	12
Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations	12
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	11
The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults	11
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	11
Translation and Validation of the Brief Inventory of Technology Self-Efficacy (BITS): Simplified and Traditional Chinese Versions	11
The Unseen Targets of Hate: A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets	11
Using OpenStreetMap, Census, and Survey Data to Predict Interethnic Group Relations in Belgium: A Machine Learning Approach	10
They’re Coming for You! How Perceptions of Automation Affect Public Support for Universal Basic Income	10
Improving the Quality of Individual-Level Web Tracking: Challenges of Existing Approaches and Introduction of a New Content and Long-Tail Sensitive Academic Solution	10
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	9
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study	9
Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data: Navigating Leadership and Followership in China’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	9
Extracting Primary Emotions and Topics from the Al-Hayat Media Centre Magazine Publications, Using Topic Modelling and Lexicon-Based Approaches	9
Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach	9
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	8
Politics Go “Viral”: A Computational Text Analysis of the Public Attribution and Attitude Regarding the COVID-19 Crisis and Governmental Responses on Twitter	8
Inauthentic Newsfeeds and Agenda Setting in a Coordinated Inauthentic Information Operation	8
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	8
An Experimental Study on the Impact of Contact Design on Web Survey Participation	7
A Distributional Semantic Online Lexicon for Linguistic Explorations of Societies	7
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	7
Dimensions of Online Role-Playing: Anchored in the Tolkien Mythos	7
Novelty in News Search: A Longitudinal Study of the 2020 US Elections	7
Integrating Human Insights Into Text Analysis: Semi-Supervised Topic Modeling of Emerging Food-Technology Businesses’ Brand Communication on Social Media	7
Online Hate Speech as a Moral Issue: Exploring Moral Reasoning of Young Italian Users on Social Network Sites	7
Quantifying the Systematic Bias in the Accessibility and Inaccessibility of Web Scraping Content From URL-Logged Web-Browsing Digital Trace Data	7
Standby Ties that Mobilize: Social Media Platforms and Civic Engagement	7
A Routine Activities Approach to Evidence-Based Risk Assessment: Findings From Two Simulated Phishing Attacks	7
The Re-mediation of Legacy and New Media on Twitter: A Six-Language Comparison of the European Social Media Discourse on Migration	7
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	6
Benefits, Challenges, and Social Impact of Health Care Providers’ Adoption of Social Media	6
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	6
Can Twitter be a Reliable Proxy to Characterize Nation-wide Human Mobility? A Case Study of Spain	6
Use and Abuse of Social Media as a Punitive Remedy in Light of Criminal Law: A Tool or a Court? Analysis of the Chilean Regulation	6
Mapping the Political Landscape on Social Media Using Bibliometrics: A Longitudinal Co-Word Analysis on Twitter and Facebook Publications Published Between 2012 and 2021	6
Do Shy Individuals Engage in Cyber Aggression? The Multiple Mediation of Passive Use and Relative Deprivation and the Moderation of Moral Sensitivity	6
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	6
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	6
A Dual-Role Trust Model for Social Media Influencers: The Paradox of Perceived Friendship	6
“Depression is not Real; I Don’t Need Help”: Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media and Help Avoidance	6
Item Nonresponse in Web Versus Other Survey Modes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	6
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	6
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	5

Using Double Machine Learning to Understand Nonresponse in the Recruitment of a Mixed-Mode Online Panel	5
Read it on Reddit: Homogeneity and Ideological Segregation in the Age of Social News	5
Sex Sells Terrorism: How Sexual Appeals in Fringe Online Communities Contribute to Self-Radicalization	5
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	5
Machine Learning and Political Events: Application of a Semi-supervised Approach to Produce a Dataset on Presidential Cabinets	5
Performative Quantification: Design Choices Impact the Lessons of Empirical Surveys About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles	5
Attributing Values to Devices	5
Inside Trending Topic Algorithm: How Do Human Interactions Drive Public Opinion in an Artificial Environment	5
Covering the Campaign: Computational Tools for Measuring Differences in Candidate and Party News Coverage With Application to an Emerging Democracy	5
Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification	5
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	5
Using online job postings to predict key labour market indicators	5
Automation on Twitter: Measuring the Effectiveness of Approaches to Bot Detection	5
Potential Pitfalls With Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias	5