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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach	72
Networks and Selective Avoidance: How Social Media Networks Influence Unfriending and Other Avoidance Behaviors	62
Using Google Trends Data to Study High-Frequency Search Terms: Evidence for a Reliability-Frequency Continuum	37
Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation	26
Commonshare: A New Approach to Social Reputation for Online Collaborative Communities	25
Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat	25
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach	24
Your Smiling Face is Impolite to Me: A Study of the Smiling Face Emoji in Chinese Computer-Mediated Communication	23
Video Game Feedback Learning and Aggressive or Prosocial Effects	23
The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of the Workforce: A Study on Malaysian IT Professionals	21
Explaining Attitude-Consistent Exposure on Social Network Sites: The Role of Ideology, Political Involvement, and Network Characteristics	19
Developing Fact Finders: A Mobile Game for Overcoming Intractable Conflicts	17
Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification	17
A Routine Activities Approach to Evidence-Based Risk Assessment: Findings From Two Simulated Phishing Attacks	17
Utilising a Critical Realist Lens to Conceptualise Digital Inequality: The Experiences of Less Well-Off Internet Users	16
Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda	16
Intimate Partner Violence as Reflected in Internet Search Data	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
Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide	15
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Open-Text Survey Data	15
Sexism and Media Communication. An Application to the Italian Case	15
Why Do People Choose Different Social Media Platforms? Linking Use Motives With Social Media Affordances and Personalities	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
Predicting Question Difficulty in Web Surveys: A Machine Learning Approach Based on Mouse Movement Features	13

Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding	13
The Sensitivity of Community Extra-Structural Features on Event Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks	13
Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts	13
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations	12
Technology as a Social Companion? An Exploration of Individual and Product-Related Factors of Anthropomorphism	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
The Real Value of Fake Internet Points: Networked Social Likes, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness	11
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns	11
Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making	11
Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society	10
Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities	10
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023	10
Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach	10
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services	10
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment	10
Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv	10
The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots	9
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory	9
Prediction of Recidivism and Detection of Risk Factors Under Different Time Windows Using Machine Learning Techniques	9
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns: COVID-19 as the Context	9
A National RDD Smartphone Web Survey: Comparison With a Large-Scale CAPI Survey	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
A Comparative Study of Bot Detection Techniques With an Application in Twitter Covid-19 Discourse	8
Relationship between Cyberbullying Victimization and Non-suicidal Self-Injury: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Self-Compassion	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	7
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Intellectual Humility in the Relationship Between Perceived Deepfake Exposure and Media Cynicism	7
To Follow or Not to Follow: Estimating Political Opinion From Twitter Data Using a Network-Based Machine Learning Approach	7
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0: Mobile City Apps as Catalyst for Change?	7
Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions	7
Silence in Social Media: A Multilevel Analysis of the Network Structure Effects on Participation Disparity in Facebook	7
Guaranteed Incentives and Prize Drawings: Effects on Participation, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of College Students on Sensitive Topics	7
Are Employees Happier when Staying Connected with their Companies Outside Working Hours?	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
Vox Populi, Vox AI? Using Large Language Models to Estimate German Vote Choice	7
How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy	7
Unveiling Public Perception and Interpretation of China’s National Self-Image: Analyzing Chinese Online Commentary Data	7
How do Teleworkers Relieve Negative Emotions to Improve Job Performance Through Enterprise Social Media? The Conservation of Resources Theory View	7
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations	6
From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology	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
Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo	6
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms	6
Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness	6
How Does Internet Use Affect Citizen Political Participation? The Mediating Role of Social Networks	6
TikTok and Civic Activity Among Young Adults	6
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias	6

A Deeper Dive into the Digital Divide: Reducing Coverage Bias in Internet Surveys	6
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis	6