Social Science Research: Academic Discipline — Prolific Citations Library

Explore 10 peer-reviewed papers in Social Science Research (2020–2025). Academic research using Prolific for high-quality human data collection.

This page lists 10 peer-reviewed papers in the discipline of Social Science Research in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.

Papers (10 of 10)

Caution when Crowdsourcing: Prolific as a Superior Platform Compared with MTurk

Authors: D OConnell, A Bautista

Year: 2025

Published in: ... Student Journal of ..., 2025 - journals.library.columbia.edu

Institution: University of Houston, Webster University

Research Area: Crowdsourcing Research Methodology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Discipline: Computational Social Science, Behavioral Research

Prolific outperforms MTurk in participant data quality and affordability for online survey-based research.

Methods: Data from participants recruited via MTurk and Prolific were analyzed for cost, attention measures, participation duration, and internal consistency.

Key Findings: Comparison of data quality and cost-effectiveness between MTurk and Prolific for online survey recruitment.

Citations: 1

Sample Size: 699
Repeated Measure Designs are Superior for (Most) Experimental Survey Research Applications

Authors: D Jordan, T Ollerenshaw, A Trexler

Year: 2025

Published in: 2025 - weekendu.uh.edu

Institution: University of Houston, Duke University

Research Area: Experimental Survey Research Methodology

Discipline: Social Science, Research Methodology

Repeated measure designs offer enhanced precision with minimal bias, suitable for various experiments despite slight attenuation of treatment effects.

Methods: Experimentally manipulated six classic political science experiments across three sample types, including extensions with proximity manipulation and sample-type variations.

Key Findings: Suitability and precision of repeated measure designs in survey experiments, including treatment effect estimations and design applicability across different sample types and methodologies.

Citations: 1

Sample Size: 13163
Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA

Authors: BD Douglas, PJ Ewell, M Brauer

Year: 2023

Published in: Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org

Institution: University of Alabama, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University

Research Area: Social Science Research Methods, Behavioral Research, Data Quality in Crowdsourcing

Discipline: Social Science Research Methods

Citations: 1598
Crowdsourcing technology to support academic research

Authors: M Hirth, J Jacques, P Rodgers, O Scekic

Year: 2023

Published in: Evaluation in the Crowd ..., 2017 - Springer

Research Area: Crowdsourcing, Research Methodology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Academic Research

Discipline: Social Science (specifically Crowdsourcing, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Research Methodology)

Citations: 15
Data quality of platforms and panels for online behavioral research

Authors: E Peer, D Rothschild, A Gordon, E Damer

Year: 2022

Published in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022 - Springer

Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Microsoft Research, Prolific

Research Area: Online Behavioral Research, Data Quality, Research Methods

Discipline: Computational Social Science, Behavioral Research

Citations: 2112
AITurk: Using ChatGPT for social science research

Authors: X Qin, M Huang, J Ding

Year: 2022

Published in: Available at SSRN 4922861, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com

Institution: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nankai University

Research Area: AI Social Science, LLM Simulation of Human Behavior, AI Simulation

Discipline: Social Science Research

DOI: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4922861

Citations: 17
Reply to MTurk, Prolific or panels? Choosing the right audience for online research

Authors: L Litman, A Moss, C Rosenzweig

Year: 2021

Published in: Choosing the right ..., 2021 - papers.ssrn.com

Institution: Prolific

Research Area: Online Research Methods, Crowdsourcing Platforms, Data Quality, Participant Recruitment

Discipline: Computational Social Science, Behavioral Research Methods

Citations: 133
The experimenters' dilemma: inferential preferences over populations

Authors: N Gupta, L Rigotti, A Wilson

Year: 2021

Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05064, 2021 - arxiv.org

Institution: University of Cambridge, University of Verona, University of Oxford, University of Pittsburgh

Research Area: Experimental Design, Research Methodology, Inferential Statistics

Discipline: Social Science Research Methods

Citations: 104
Are privacy dashboards good for end users? Evaluating user perceptions and reactions to Google's My Activity

Authors: FM Farke, DG Balash, M Golla, M Dürmuth

Year: 2021

Published in: 30th USENIX Security ..., 2021 - usenix.org

Institution: Ruhr University Bochum, Max Planck Institute, University of Michigan, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Privacy, User Security

Discipline: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Privacy, Security in Computer Science, Social Science Research.

Citations: 80
Survey curious? start-up guide and best practices for running surveys and experiments online

Authors: A Bergman, A Chinco, SM Hartzmark

Year: 2020

Published in: Start-Up Guide and ..., 2020 - papers.ssrn.com

Institution: Yale School of Management, University of Miami School of Business, New York University, Columbia University

Research Area: Survey Methodology, Experimental Design, Social Science Research Methods

Discipline: Social Science Research Methods

Citations: 34