Although intercoder reliability has been considered crucial to the validity of a content study, the choice among them has been controversial. This study analyzed all the content studies published in the two major communication journals that reported intercoder reliability, aiming to find how...

Intercoder reliability is usually estimated with a summary index, and yet the limitations concerning the indexing approach have been well noted. This study critically reviewed all the existing major modeling approaches to estimating intercoder reliability, and empirically tested and further...

There are plenty of intercoder reliability indices, whereas the choice of them has been debated. With a Monte Carlo simulation, the determinants of the agreement indices were empirically tested. The chance agreement of Bennett’s S is found to be only affected by the number of categories....