OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	43
Correction	35
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	24
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	17
Response to Hammersley	16
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	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	15
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	14
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	14
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	12
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
A brief reply to David Byrne	12
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	11
Correction	11
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	11
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?	10
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	10
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time	9
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	9
Multi-layered sampling strategy for qualitative interviews: methodical reflections on sampling interviews with the European Research Council review experts	9
Expanding opportunities to maximise research recruitment and data collection using digital tools	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9

Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	8
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	8
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	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
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	7
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	7
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	5
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	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