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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	50
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	35
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	24
Response to Hammersley	20
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	19
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	19
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	18
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	16
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	16
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	15
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	15
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	13
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
Correction	12
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research	12
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	12
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	11
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	10
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	10
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	10
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	10
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9

How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	9
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	9
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	8
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	8
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Participants or pretenders? Addressing the challenge of inauthentic participation encountered during three social research studies on experiences of food insecurity in the UK	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	5
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	5
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	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
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy	4
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Engaging underserved communities in smartphone-based research: comparing mailings, advertisements, and in-person recruitment strategies	4
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling	3
Correction	3
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	3
Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3

Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	3
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	3
Correction:	3
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	2
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study	2
‘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	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
‘Scraping’ Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of Covid-19	2
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	2
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	2
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition	2
Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups	2
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	2
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	2
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	2
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	2
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”	2
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?	2
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	2
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	1
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies	1
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	1
An introduction to decolonial research	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	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
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography	1
Critical method of document analysis	1
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	1
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	1
Visual models, piloting, and triangulation as core formative research practices	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation	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
Amplifying young voices through visual methods: reflections on using body mapping to capture student experiences during school closure	1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	1