OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Field Methods 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Designing a Multinational Smartphone App Survey during COVID-19: Rewards, Risks, and Recommendations	22
Measurement Quality of a Multi-item Scale in Plain Language	21
Learning Circles, Underpinned by Dadirri	19
Combining Conceptual Frameworks on Maternal Health in Indigenous Communities—Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Using Participant and Operator-independent Weighting	18
Strategies for Establishing Dependability between Two Qualitative Intrinsic Case Studies: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis	15
Poverty and Wealth without a Ladder? An Appraisal of the Stages of Progress Method among Agro–Pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley	13
Improving Sampling Probability Definitions with Predictive Algorithms	11
Infrequent Identity Signals, Multiple Correspondence, and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies	10
A Community-partnered Approach to Social Network Data Collection for a Large and Partial Network	9
Offering Web Response as a Refusal Conversion Technique in a Mixed-mode Survey	8
Are Voter Rolls Suitable Sampling Frames for Household Surveys? Evidence from India	8
Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research	8
How Training Affects Interviewer Performance Over Time: A Field Experiment with a Large-scale National Representative Survey	8
Case-to-Condition Ratios in Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Adding Cases Instead of Removing Conditions	8
How Did We Develop a Photographic Guide of Biodiverse Food Plants to Support Food Consumption Studies?	8
Short Take: Collecting Data from a Vulnerable Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Effects of Prepaid Postage Stamps and Postcard Incentives in a Web Survey Experiment	7
Sister-girl Talk: A Community-based Method for Group Interviewing and Analysis	7
Fewer Procedures, More Reflection: A Rejoinder to Duşa and Marx	7
Penciling: An Anonymization Method for Social Media Images	6
Virtual Qualitative Interviews with Immigrant and Refugee Youth: Lessons Learned for and Beyond the Pandemic	5
Are You…? Asking Questions on Sex with a Third Category in Germany	5
How Do Alternative Gendered Linguistic Forms Affect Response Behavior in Surveys?	5
Smartphone Diary Application in Household Surveys: Integration of High Frequency Temporal Data in Large-scale Data Collection	4
Just Scan It: Examining QR Code Use in Web Survey Recruitment	4

Field Application of Sharing Circles (SCs) in Rural Anti-exploitation Research: A Detailed Methodological Account	4
Invited Review: Collecting Data through Dyadic Interviews: A Systematic Review	4
Improving Self-reported Prescription Medicine Data Quality with a Commercial Database Lookup Tool and Claims Matching	4
How to Detect Lookups to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys: Different Approaches, Their Implementation, Potential, and Challenges	4
What about the Less IT Literate? A Comparison of Different Postal Recruitment Strategies to an Online Panel of the General Population	3
Does Providing an Example Social Network Map Increase Referrals or Affect Types of Ties Reported in an Online Survey?	3
Modeling Uncertainty around Free-list Cultural Salience Scores	3
Establishing a Panel Study of Refugees in Germany: First Wave Response and Panel Attrition from a Comparative Perspective	3
Nonverbal Behavior in Face-to-face Survey Interviews: An Analysis of Interviewer Behavior and Adequate Responding	3
Using Systematic Social Observations to Measure Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Disorder: In-situ Observations, Photographs, and Google Street View Imagery	2
Are Scale Direction Effects the Same in Different Survey Modes? Comparison of a Face-to-Face, a Telephone, and an Online Survey Experiment	2
Participatory Modeling: A Methodology for Engaging Stakeholder Knowledge and Participation in Social Science Research	2
Bursting Self-reports? Comparing Sampling Frequency Effects of Mobile Experience Sampling Method on Compliance, Attrition, and Sample Biases	2
A Comparison of Three Designs for List-style Open-ended Questions in Web Surveys	2
Estimating the Size of the Target Population in Data Limited Settings	2
A Web-based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior	2
Short Take: Sampling from Transnational Social Fields	2
Case-to-factor Ratios and Model Specification in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	2
Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race	1
Fully Labeled Scales Are More Cognitively Demanding: A Multimodal Cognitive Load Approach	1
Challenges and Opportunities to Recruiting and Engaging with Gay Male Latino Sexual Assault Survivors	1
Verbalization of Rating Scales Taking Account of Their Polarity	1
Effects of Question Characteristics on Item Nonresponse in Telephone and Web Survey Modes	1
Revisiting the Recommended Duration of Interviews Conducted by Mobile Phone in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Randomized Trial in Malawi	1
Accuracy of a Photo-based Smartphone Application to Assess Salivary Cortisol Sampling Time in Adolescents	1
Evaluation of a University Project Using the Future Workshop Method	1
A Machine Learning Model Helps Process Interviewer Comments in Computer-assisted Personal Interview Instruments: A Case Study	1
Soiled Toilet Paper for Community-based Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance and Enteric Pathogens: A Pilot Study	1
Entering the Digital Research Age: Investigating the Effectiveness of Visual Digital Tools in Agricultural Research	1
Research Driven Dialogs: A Method for Social and Scholarly Impact	1
Online Survey Retention and Re-engagement: Learning from the COVID-19 Social Study	1
The Impact of Face Mask Usage on Data Quality in Face-to-face Interviews	1
Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures	1
Daily and Momentary Variability in Sleep, Stress, and Well-being Data in Two Samples of Health Care Workers	1
“Are You …”: An Examination of Incomplete Question Stems in Self-administered Surveys	1
A Psychometric Network Analysis Approach for Detecting Item Wording Effects in Self-report Measures across Subgroups	1