OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 4. 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
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	117
Linking survey with Twitter data: examining associations among smartphone usage, privacy concern and Twitter linkage consent	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
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices	16
Should we make predictions based on social simulations?	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
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
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	11
Conducting qualitative interviews via VoIP technologies: reflections on rapport, technology, digital exclusion, and ethics	10
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
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
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	8
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu	8
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
Combining ‘sex-as-dirty work’ and ‘CMM’ frameworks for recruiting cisgender, heterosexual men for a study on sex, sexuality, and intimacy	7
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
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
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
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
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
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