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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	59
Response to Hammersley	35
Correction	29
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	25
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	23
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	22
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	19
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects	17
Encountering school spaces: navigating informed consent processes with school communities	15
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	15
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	14
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	14
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	13
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	13
Research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa: exploring subaltern voice refusal	13
A brief reply to David Byrne	13
Correction	12
Methodology in the margins: voice, silence, and relational ethics in mini-ethnographic research	11
A failure to converge? The use of convergent designs in mixed methods research	11
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	9

Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9
“Ethical challenges in quantitative secondary data analyses. Insights from international migration research”	9
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	9
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	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)	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
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Responding to sensitive survey questions on violence and sexual behavior: experiences of children and young people in two humanitarian settings in sub-saharan Africa	7
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	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
Observations from conducting a sensitive interview study about youth deaths	6
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	6
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	6
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A pluriversal conversation about decolonial research methods and methodologies	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
Critical reflections on designing an online survey in a decolonial research project	5
Toward decolonial healing knowledge: intersectional reading of road signs as a gift	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Engaging underserved communities in smartphone-based research: comparing mailings, advertisements, and in-person recruitment strategies	4
Re-thinking decolonial concepts & practices: towards critical research and pedagogy	4
Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index	4
Correction:	4
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	4
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	4
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	4
Sankofa: towards African-centred research methodological framework	4
Editorial Note: Referees	4
Lessons Learnt: imposters in online focus groups	4
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	4
Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage	4
Correction	4

One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	4
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	3
Online survey data integrity: lessons learnt from investigating a bot attack on a small-scale educational study	3
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	3
Exploring ‘I’ in research: reflexivity through a Lacanian lens	3
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
Beyond the binary: harnessing ‘moments of mismatch’ as critical data in global south research contexts	3
Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity	3
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	3
Does data quality vary across the semester? An assessment of data quality from an undergraduate participant pool	3
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	3
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	3
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups	2
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	2
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Response to “the importance of data description in social research: sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients”	2
’Silence doesn’t speak as loudly with whitefellas‘: using autoethnography to develop reflexivity during cross-cultural work in remote Aboriginal communities	2
Prompt-imposed structure: a methodological evaluation of LLM-generated survey data for theory-based modeling	2
Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research	2
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	2
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	2
How we constructed the future in the past: the use of temporal complexity and imagined futures in interviewees’ justifications for their actions	2
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	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
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	2
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	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
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?	2
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	2
What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation	2
Bots and fake participants: ensuring valid and reliable data collection using online participant recruitment methods	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	2
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	1
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	1
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	1
Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative resarch	1
Establishing an accompanying approach in social sciences and humanities: a conceptual embedding in second-person ethnography	1
Critical method of document analysis	1
Stepping Beyond Transcripts: A Framework for Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups	1
Using whatsApp video call to reach large survey sample of low-income children during covid-19: a mixed method post-hoc analysis	1
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	1
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	1
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	1
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	1
But who is it for? Introducing a framework for critical reflection on design and delivery of ethical participatory research	1
Translating Q methodology results into survey questions for large-scale use: a comparison of approaches	1
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	1
Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion	1
Using performative participatory research to explore the meanings of sport, celebrity and community in young people’s lives	1
The impact of commitments on longitudinal survey attrition	1
Decolonial research methodology: an assessment of the challenge to established practice	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
Human trafficking in the Kyrgyz Republic: how roadblocks, barriers, and methodological challenges transformed an investigation	1
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	1
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	1
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	1
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	1
Amplifying young voices through visual methods: reflections on using body mapping to capture student experiences during school closure	1
Decolonising participatory research: can Ubuntu philosophy contribute something?	1
Visual models, piloting, and triangulation as core formative research practices	1
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	1
An introduction to decolonial research	1
Studying local violence from outside the locality: critical reflections on remote qualitative research on hard-to-reach urban areas in Guatemala	1
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	1