OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 1. 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
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	39
Correction	33
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	21
Response to Hammersley	15
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	15
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	14
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	14
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	13
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	13
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	13
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	13
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	12
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	11
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	11
A brief reply to David Byrne	11
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	10
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	10
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	9
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach	9
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	8
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	8
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	8

Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	8
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	8
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	8
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	8
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	5
Ethics, rigour and agility of research and evaluation methods in a changing social and clinical context: Reflections from a psychosocial research centre on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography	4
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	4
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	4
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Correction	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	3
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	3
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	3
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	3
‘For Want of a Nail’: developing a transparent approach to retroduction and early initial programme theory development in a realist evaluation of community end of life care services	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3

Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	3
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	3
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research: a replication study using imitation games about religion	2
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	2
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	2
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	2
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	2
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	2
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	2
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	2
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	1
‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives	1
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	1
How ‘co’ can you go? A qualitative inquiry on the key principles of co-creative research and their enactment in real-life practices	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Assessing the impact of missing data in youth overweight and obesity research: complete case analysis versus multiple imputation	1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies	1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1
A critical realist explanation for the capabilities of people with disabilities in dealing with disasters	1
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	1
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Critical method of document analysis	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
Using the literature to create a scale: an innovative qualitative methodological piece	1
‘Meta’ analysis: considerations when using Facebook within research and evaluation studies: a research note	1