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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	117
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	117
Respondent characteristics’ moderating effect on mixed-mode effects: an example of subjective well-being measurements	60
Exploring the practice of 10-11-year-olds as co-researchers: using a hybrid approach in educational research to promote children as interviewers	46
A 5-day codesign sprint to improve housing decisions of older adults: lessons learned from Sweden and the Netherlands	32
Correction	30
Is agent-based modelling the future of prediction?	25
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives	17
Does a short-term deadline extension affect participation rates of an online survey? Experimental evidence from an online panel	17
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	16
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices	16
Everyday talk: self-directed peer focus groups with diverse youth	15
Benefits of increasing the value of respondent incentives during the course of a longitudinal mixed-mode survey	14
Should we care about pay ratios? Dealing with ISSP questions on actual and ideal wages from a comparative perspective	13
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	13
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding ‘even one or two puffs’ to use questions	12
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	11
On urgency, reciprocity, and complicity as ethical justifications for a ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ social science	11
New-materialist bricolage: presenting an ontological position for qualitative internet-based research	11
Tate Liverpool’s Democracies : curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy	11
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	10
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them: The dialectics of observation and the phenomenological gaze in a kindergarten setting	9
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study	9
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	9
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling	9

Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data	9
Critical ethical reflexivity (CER) in feminist narrative inquiry: reflections from cis researchers doing social work research with trans and non-binary people	9
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments	9
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	8
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	8
Combining ‘sex-as-dirty work’ and ‘CMM’ frameworks for recruiting cisgender, heterosexual men for a study on sex, sexuality, and intimacy	7
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	7
Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud: lessons from the Triple C project	7
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	7
Recruitment in response to a pandemic: pivoting a community-based recruitment strategy to facebook for hard-to-reach populations during COVID-19	7
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	6
Analysing causal asymmetry: a comparison of logistic regression and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	6
Turning ethnography on its head in research about internet sexual offending	6
Automatic speech-to-text transcription: evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers	6
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?	6
Using Emojis and drawings in surveys to measure children’s attitudes to mathematics	6
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices	6
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources	6
Response to Hammersley	6
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research	6
Do respondents using smartphones produce lower quality data? Evidence from the first large-scale UK mixed-device survey – Understanding Society Wave 8	5
25^th ANNIVERSARY EDITORIAL	5
What role can ‘public switching’ play in researching public perceptions of controversial issues?	5
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing	5
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach	5
Transforming a methodological dilemma into a rewarding research opportunity	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	4
A meta-analysis of worldwide recruitment rates in 23 probability-based online panels, between 2007 and 2019	4
Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context	4
How sensitive are self-reports of offending?: the impact of recall periods on question sensitivity	4
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study	4
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe	4
Five years later: lessons and insights from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study	4
The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research	3
Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation	3
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	3
Participatory place-centred research with children in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting from in situ to virtual methods	3
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology	3
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	3
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	3
Internet-mediated phone interviews for remote qualitative educational research in the Global South during COVID–19: a researcher’s and participants’ experiential reflections	3
Effects of objective and perceived burden on response quality in web surveys	3
Local data and upstream reporting as sources of error in the administrative data undercount of Covid 19	3
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment	3
Overcoming methodological challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic in a non-pharmacological caregiver-child randomly controlled trial	3
Editorial note: referees	3
Causation in complex systems where human agency is in play	3
Research synthesis in times of crisis: setting the agenda for mixed method, collaborative research on poverty in a post-pandemic world	3
Does accuracy matter? Methodological considerations when using automated speech-to-text for social science research	3
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	3

A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time	3
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	3
Preventing satisficing: A narrative review	3
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	2
‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives	2
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	2
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis	2
Integration of individuals with lived experience to improve recruitment within criminal justice research: ‘experience as the best teacher’	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
Whose uncertainty? Learning disability research in a time of COVID-19	2
Including the voices and opinions of adults living with intellectual disability who are functionally nonverbal in a project directly concerning them – research note on the challenges and successes	2
Bridging ethnography and AI: a reciprocal methodology for studying visual political action	2
Retracing participants in longitudinal studies: Trekking the timescape of fieldwork	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
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	2
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	2
The effects of COVID-19 on test-retest reliability in a behavioral measure for impulsivity	2
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students	2
Reverse Coding: a Proposed Alternative Methodology for Identifying Evidentiary Warrants	2
Benefits and challenges of engaging Majority World children in interdisciplinary, multi-qualitative-method, mental health research	2
Consent through art: a critique of a visual method developed with peer-researchers in southern Nepal	2
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	2
Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews	2
Intertextual psychoanalytic-intersubjective analysis in qualitative research: ‘can two walk together, except they be agreed?’	2
First steps in qualitative secondary analysis: experiences of engaging with the primary research team	2
Combining Q methodology and interviews using mixed methods integration: an exemplar study exploring over-the-counter codeine misuse in Australia	2
The effectiveness of between-wave mailings and tailored material incentives on response rates: results from a young adolescent longitudinal survey	1
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	1
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: results of cognitive interviews in four European countries	1
‘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	1
Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit	1
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals	1
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	1
Survey experience and its positive impact on response behavior in longitudinal surveys: Evidence from the probability-based GESIS Panel	1
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth	1
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models	1
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	1
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	1
Collaborating with children: intergenerational research encounters	1
Speculative methodological subjects	1
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review	1
The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions	1
Location in the multiverse of methods: measuring online users’ contexts	1
Using draw a person tasks to measure children’s Assigned gender Ability Beliefs	1
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note	1
Coverage bias: the impact of eligibility constraints on mobile phone-based sampling and data collection	1
Safeguarding personal integrity while collecting sensitive data using narrative interviews – a research note	1
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	1
‘Meta’ analysis: considerations when using Facebook within research and evaluation studies: a research note	1
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts: implications for sustainable development	1
Did they really say that? An agential realist approach to using computer assisted transcription software in qualitative data analysis	1
A brief reply to David Byrne	1
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	1
Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women	1
App-based textual interviews: interacting with younger generations in a digitalized social reality	1
Self-report questionnaires scrutinised: Do eye movements reveal individual differences in cognitive processes while completing a questionnaire?	1
Agent-based modelling as a method for prediction in complex social systems	1
Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations	1
Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice	1
Ways of establishing rigour in the Abductive Research Strategy (ARS)	1