{"title":"Bots and Fake Participants: Ensuring Valid and Reliable Data Collection Using Online Participant Recruitment Methods.","authors":"Roseline Jean Louis, Lisa M Thompson","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2410176","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2410176","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recruitment for successful health sciences research requires balancing efficiency, cost, accessibility, and reliability of available recruitment methods. Our case-control study used online recruitment methods, which broadened our reach to potential participants across the United States. However, this approach also exposed us to challenges associated with bot interference and fraudulent participation. This paper focuses on maintaining data integrity, specifically when utilizing online participant recruitment methods. Drawing from our experience, we propose The Swiss Cheese Model of Study Participant Fraud Prevention, adapted from Reason's Swiss Cheese Model, and illustrate ten prevention and verification measures that can be taken to minimize fraud in research studies that rely on online recruitment. We emphasize the importance of a layered approach, including carefully designed recruitment media and compensation protocols, vetting of participant eligibility, and data verification protocols to ensure the validity and reliability of research findings in the digital age.</p>","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"28 4","pages":"463-473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12331143/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144816576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage","authors":"Jette Schröder, Sanja Kapidzic, Henning Silber, Florian Keusch, Natalja Menold, Christoph Beuthner","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2391959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2391959","url":null,"abstract":"Using a German online panel, we investigate respondents’ propensity to consent to the linkage of publicly available Facebook data to their survey data and to enable linkage. We analyse the effects ...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tate Liverpool’s Democracies: curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy","authors":"Michael Saward","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2396370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2396370","url":null,"abstract":"This article reconstructs and juxtaposes two radically different methodologies for approaching the topic of democracy – one exemplified by major UK art gallery Tate Liverpool’s exhibition called De...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An empirical evaluation of probing questions investigating question comprehensibility in web surveys","authors":"Cornelia E. Neuert, Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2391957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2391957","url":null,"abstract":"It is essential for the quality of survey data that questions are easy to understand. We developed four variants of comprehensibility probes measuring the comprehensibility of a survey question as ...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief reply to David Byrne","authors":"Martyn Hammersley","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2390173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2390173","url":null,"abstract":"Published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of objective and perceived burden on response quality in web surveys","authors":"Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2393795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2393795","url":null,"abstract":"Respondent burden is considered a decisive factor affecting response quality in web surveys. To investigate the objective and perceived burden on web survey respondents and its effects on response ...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education researchers who teach in schools: a braided river approach to enhancing research and practice","authors":"Caitlin M. Prentice","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2380995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2380995","url":null,"abstract":"Much attention has been given to how involvement in research can improve teachers’ practices and student outcomes. Less has been said about how teaching in schools can improve researchers’ practice...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students","authors":"Wolfgang Lehmann","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2374082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2374082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws on experiences gained in a 16-year qualitative study of the experiences of working-class students who were the first in their family to attend university. Although the study suffer...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda Doggett, Ashok Chaurasia, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Scott T. Leatherdale
{"title":"Assessing the impact of missing data in youth overweight and obesity research: complete case analysis versus multiple imputation","authors":"Amanda Doggett, Ashok Chaurasia, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Scott T. Leatherdale","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2368345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2368345","url":null,"abstract":"Youth overweight and obesity (OWOB) surveillance often uses body mass index (BMI) derived from self-reported height and weight, but these measures can suffer from high proportions of missing data. ...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using memes and emoji-scales in a web survey: experimental assessment of consequences for multimodal cognitive effort and data quality","authors":"Ruslan Suleymanov, Daniil Lebedev","doi":"10.1080/13645579.2024.2359474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2359474","url":null,"abstract":"Decreasing web survey participation rates lead to higher importance of ways to increase respondents’ motivation to participate and gamification is seen as one of possible ways to do so. However, th...","PeriodicalId":14272,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Research Methodology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}