Most-cited Social Sciences papers of 2016, with free PDFs
The 25 most-cited Social Sciences research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Haidong Wang, Mohsen Naghavi et al. · 2016 · 6,601 citations · Free PDF - How to plan and perform a qualitative study using content analysis
Mariette Bengtsson · 2016 · 4,604 citations - Code Saturation Versus Meaning Saturation
Monique M. Hennink, Bonnie N. Kaiser et al. · 2016 · 4,502 citations - Systematic methodological review: developing a framework for a qualitative semi‐structured interview guide
Hanna Kallio, Anna‐Maija Pietilä et al. · 2016 · 4,226 citations - Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners
2016 · 4,025 citations - Member Checking
Linda Birt, Suzanne Emilie Scott et al. · 2016 · 3,928 citations - The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate
Brent Mittelstadt, Patrick Allo et al. · 2016 · 3,447 citations - In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe · 2016 · 3,263 citations - How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms
Jenna Burrell · 2016 · 2,854 citations - The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner et al. · 2016 · 2,825 citations - Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right
Arlie Russell Hochschild · 2016 · 2,630 citations - The spreading of misinformation online
Michela Del Vicario, Alessandro Bessi et al. · 2016 · 2,421 citations · Free PDF - The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren et al. · 2016 · 2,344 citations - Textual Analysis in Accounting and Finance: A Survey
Tim Loughran, Bill McDonald · 2016 · 2,339 citations - On Democratic Backsliding
Nancy G. Bermeo · 2016 · 2,278 citations - Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review
Hyejin Kim, Justine S. Sefcik et al. · 2016 · 2,248 citations - Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Nicholas J Kassebaum, Megha Kataria Arora et al. · 2016 · 2,173 citations · Free PDF - Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model
Matthias Brand, KIMBERLY S. YOUNG et al. · 2016 · 2,150 citations - The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study.
Cecilie Schou Andreassen, Joël Billieux et al. · 2016 · 2,080 citations - Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis
Mojtaba Vaismoradi, J. K. N. Jones et al. · 2016 · 1,985 citations - Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption
Seth Flaxman, Sharad Goel et al. · 2016 · 1,978 citations - oTree—An open-source platform for laboratory, online, and field experiments
Daniel L. Chen, Martin Schonger et al. · 2016 · 1,969 citations - Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies
Nicole Valtorta, Mona N Kanaan et al. · 2016 · 1,961 citations · Free PDF - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil · 2016 · 1,934 citations - An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word For Colonialism
Zoe Todd · 2016 · 1,865 citations
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