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General Social Sciences

academic disciplines concerned with society and the relationships between individuals in society

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Most cited

  1. Techniques to Identify Themes

    Gery W. Ryan, H. Russell Bernard · 2003 · Field Methods · 5,485 citations

  2. Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts

    Justin Grimmer, Brandon Stewart · 2013 · Political Analysis · 3,294 citations

  3. Content Analysis in Mass Communication: Assessment and Reporting of Intercoder Reliability

    Matthew Lombard, Jennifer Snyder‐Duch, Cheryl Campanella Bracken · 2002 · Human Communication Research · 2,947 citations

  4. Professionalism: The Third Logic

    Carroll Seron, Eliot Freidson · 2002 · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2,946 citations

  5. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Robert Y. Shapiro · 2000 · Political Science Quarterly · 2,730 citations

  6. International Social Science Journal

    Author unknown · 1963 · Anthropology News · 2,725 citations

Most recent

  1. Implications of the Muslim-Muslim Political Ticket in Building Muslim-Christian Relation, Equitable Representation and Peaceful Co-Existence in Niger State

    Zaccheaus Majin · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  2. Implications of the Muslim-Muslim Political Ticket in Building Muslim-Christian Relation, Equitable Representation and Peaceful Co-Existence in Niger State

    Zaccheaus Majin · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

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    Carlos Elías · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  4. La IA ha matado al paper en CCSS: por favor, más Plutarco y menos estadística

    Carlos Elías · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  5. An empirical assessment of data sharing and computational reproducibility in sociology

    Rio Ikeuchi, Taisuke Imai · 2026 · Royal Society Open Science · 1 citations

  6. Don’t Look up: Evaluating the Tradeoff Between Performance and Sustainability of Text Classification Using Open LLMs

    Sean-Kelly Palicki, Isaac Bravo, Clint Claessen · 2026 · Social Science Computer Review · 0 citations

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