OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Computer Review is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	88
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	52
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	33
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	32
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	29
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	28
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	27
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	27
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	24
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	23
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	19
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	18
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	18
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	18
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	17
Turing’s Children: Large Language Models and Imitative Intelligence	17
Goffmanian “Cooling” in Technology-Mediated Frontline Enforcement Work	17
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	16
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	16
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	16
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	16
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	16
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	16
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	15
Performing Productivity: Exploring the Narratives of State-Funded AI Projects Over a Decade in Chile	15

Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	15
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	14
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	14
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	14
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	14
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	13
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	13
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	12
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	12
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	11
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	11
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	11
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	11
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	11
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	10
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	10
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	9
Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis	9
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	9
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	9
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	9
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	9
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	9
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	8
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	8
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	8
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	8
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	8
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	8
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	8
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	7
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	7
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	7
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science	7
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	7
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	7
Adaptive Self-Reflection as a Social Media Self-Effect: Insights from Computational Text Analyses of Self-Disclosures of Unreported Sexual Victimization in a Hashtag Campaign	7
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	7
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	7
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	7
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	7
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	7
Unintended Consequences of Digital Infrastructure Development: The Impact on Crime Rates in China	7
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data	7
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	7
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	7
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	6
Not All Bots are Created Equal: The Impact of Bots Classification Techniques on Identification of Discursive Behaviors Around the COVID-19 Vaccine and Climate Change	6

Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth	6
The Early Bird Catches the Worm! Setting a Deadline for Online Panel Recruitment Incentives	6
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	6
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	6
Conditional Direction of Dependence Modeling: Application and Implementation in SPSS	6
Context-dependent Online Social Influence: Effect of Majority and Minority Comments on Posters and Lurkers	6
Predicting Web Survey Breakoffs Using Machine Learning Models	6
Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach	6
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	6
Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events	6