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

Article	Citations
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	70
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	50
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	35
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	27
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	27
Commonshare: A New Approach to Social Reputation for Online Collaborative Communities	25
Examining the Characteristics That Differentiate Jihadi-Associated Cyberattacks Using Routine Activities Theory	24
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	24
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	23
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	23
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	23
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	20
Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification	18
A Routine Activities Approach to Evidence-Based Risk Assessment: Findings From Two Simulated Phishing Attacks	17
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	17
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	16
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	16
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	16
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	15
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	15
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	15
The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression	14
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time	14
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	14
Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	14

Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	13
Predicting Question Difficulty in Web Surveys: A Machine Learning Approach Based on Mouse Movement Features	13
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	13
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	13
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	12
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	12
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	12
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	11
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load	11
The Impact of day of Mailing on Web Survey Response Rate and Response Speed	11
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	11
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	11
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	10
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	10
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	10
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	10
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	10
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	9
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	9
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	9
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	9
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	9
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	8
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	8
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Adolescents’ Involvement in Family Conflict	8
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
Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.?	8
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	8
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	7
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	7
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	7
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	7
Response Times and Self-Reporting: Response Patterns Across Countries and World Regions Using Data From a Large Scale Computer-Based Assessment	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	7
When Does WeChat Usage Decrease Loneliness? A Panel Study Examining the Moderating Roles of Age and Perceived Network Supportiveness	7
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	7
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	7
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	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
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	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
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	6
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	6
A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	6
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	6
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis	6
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	6

From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	6
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	6