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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	46
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right	35
Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events using publicly available information: methodological issues	24
Response to Hammersley	19
Decisions and justifications when recounting social science research	18
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future: synthesis of the learning among the social research community 2020–2022	17
Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality	17
How do social and economic status impact measurement error?	16
Beyond the “wow” factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research	15
Virtual focus groups on Zoom: “lessons learned” from two physical activity studies among Black and African American women and children	14
Impact of missing information on day-to-day research based on secondary data	13
Returning home to conduct research: reflections of research work in Kenya	12
Using social proof to increase response in the third wave of a German online probability panel	12
Participation or direction? Dilemmas in utilising participatory methods	12
A brief reply to David Byrne	12
Correction	11
Academic ecosystem and epistemic oppressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain	11
Equitable North-South partnerships for ethical and policy relevant research in times of uncertainty: a collaborative autoethnography from Ethiopia	11
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences	11
Comparing the mobilising effects of in-person canvassing to postal reminders – experimental evidence from a longitudinal election study	10
Evaluating the reliability of a revised two-step assessment of sex and gender in adolescents and adults	10
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico	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
Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study	9

The politics of researching a familiar field: research on youth unemployment in Daveyton township, South Africa	9
Introducing conversation analysis: a comparative review of introductory textbooks	9
Ethical practice in research with refugee-background youth: a dialogic reflection using Mohja Kahf’s ‘the aunty poem’	9
Do instructional manipulation checks measure inattention or miscomprehension?	9
Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research	8
Addressing methodological assumptions of correspondence tests when measuring discrimination	8
Methodological reflections on participant-produced drawings in focus groups: addressing resistance, interpretation, and ethics	8
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA	8
Comparing self-administered mixed-mode and face-to-face designs in a repeated cross-sectional survey	8
Reflections on the house-of-mirrors: a commentary on Carpentras and Quayle (2023)	8
Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection	8
Making ethical judgement calls about qualitative social media research on sensitive issues	8
Challenges in gaining ethical approval for sensitive digital social science studies	7
Question order effects: how robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?	7
Considerations for conducting online focus groups on sensitive topics	7
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?	7
Reflecting on research at the interface of knowledge and the importance of decolonising transformational unlearning for non-Indigenous researchers	7
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’	6
Through the Zoom window: how children use virtual technologies to navigate power dynamics in research	6
Distorted claims about distortions, a response to Reflections on the House of Mirrors	5
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers: towards a flexible and needs-based approach to participatory research	5
Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs	5
Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? Revisiting critical interpretive reviews	5
Improving the reliability of the Reliable Change Index	5
One harmonization fits all? – Impact of missing population invariance on harmonization error when harmonizing social science survey questions with equating	5
Manuscript with author details – lessons learnt: imposters in online focus groups	5
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities	5
Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare	5
Reaching hard-to-reach communities: using WhatsApp to give conflict-affected audiences a voice	5
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past	5
Sources cited analysis: balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence	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