Topic · Data Analysis and Archiving
Most cited papers in Data Analysis and Archiving
What are the most cited papers in Data Analysis and Archiving?
The most cited paper in Data Analysis and Archiving is "Whatever happened to qualitative description?" (Margarete Sandelowski, 2000), with 12,287 citations. Next come "What's in a name? Qualitative description revisited" (5,038) and "To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales" (4,766).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 314 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whatever happened to qualitative description? Margarete Sandelowski · Research in Nursing & Health | 2000 | 12,287 |
| 2 | What's in a name? Qualitative description revisited Margarete Sandelowski · Research in Nursing & Health | 10 Dec 2009 | 5,038 |
| 3 | To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health | 26 Dec 2019 | 4,766 |
| 4 | Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory Elizabeth H. Bradley, Leslie Ann Curry, Kelly J. Devers · Health Services Research | 24 Jan 2007 | 3,529 |
| 5 | Ethics, Reflexivity, and “Ethically Important Moments” in Research Marilys N. Guillemin, Lynn H. Gillam · Qualitative Inquiry | Apr 2004 | 2,641 |
| 6 | Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves Patricia Guyot, A. E. Ades, MJ Ouwens et al. · BMC Medical Research Methodology | Feb 2012 | 2,623 |
| 7 | Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics Gillian Rose · Progress in Human Geography | Jun 1997 | 2,387 |
| 8 | Qualitative description – the poor cousin of health research? Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Frede Olesen, Rikke Sand Andersen et al. · BMC Medical Research Methodology | 16 Jul 2009 | 2,140 |
| 9 | Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗ Kim V. L. England · The Professional Geographer | Feb 1994 | 2,069 |
| 10 | ‘Unsatisfactory Saturation’: a critical exploration of the notion of saturated sample sizes in qualitative research Michelle J. O’Reilly, Nicola Parker · Qualitative Research | 17 May 2012 | 1,971 |
| 11 | Negotiating the swamp: the opportunity and challenge of reflexivity in research practice Linda Finlay · Qualitative Research | Aug 2002 | 1,926 |
| 12 | Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide Mark Pearson · Sociological Research Online | Dec 2005 | 1,526 |
| 13 | Developing and Using a Codebook for the Analysis of Interview Data: An Example from a Professional Development Research Project Jessica T. DeCuir‐Gunby, Patricia L. Marshall, Allison W. McCulloch · Field Methods | 27 Dec 2010 | 1,461 |
| 14 | Triangulation 2.0 Norman K. Denzin · Journal of Mixed Methods Research | 23 Feb 2012 | 1,401 |
| 15 | Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis Natasha S. Mauthner, Andrea Doucet · Sociology | Aug 2003 | 1,394 |
| 16 | Qualitative data analysis: the framework approach Joanna Handlin Smith, Jill Firth · Nurse Researcher | 21 Jan 2011 | 1,260 |
| 17 | Ethics in Qualitative Research Angélica Orb, Laurel A. Eisenhauer, Dianne Wynaden · Journal of Nursing Scholarship | Mar 2001 | 1,254 |
| 18 | A Practical Iterative Framework for Qualitative Data Analysis Prachi Srivastava, Nick Hopwood · International Journal of Qualitative Methods | Mar 2009 | 1,247 |
| 19 | Participant Observation as a Data Collection Method Barbara Kawulich · Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) | 3 Jul 2008 | 1,226 |
| 20 | Manual or electronic? The role of coding in qualitative data analysis Tehmina N. Basit · Educational Research | Jun 2003 | 1,225 |
| 21 | Coding qualitative data: a synthesis guiding the novice Mai Skjøtt Linneberg, Steffen Korsgaard · Qualitative Research Journal | 8 May 2019 | 1,178 |
| 22 | A Guide to Field Notes for Qualitative Research: Context and Conversation Julia C. Phillippi, Jana L. Lauderdale · Qualitative Health Research | 5 Apr 2017 | 1,166 |
| 23 | Establishing rigour in qualitative research: the decision trail Tina Koch · Journal of Advanced Nursing | May 1994 | 1,125 |
| 24 | Drawing Valid Meaning from Qualitative Data: Toward a Shared Craft Matthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman · Educational Researcher | May 1984 | 1,072 |
| 25 | Developing and Implementing a Triangulation Protocol for Qualitative Health Research Tracy Farmer, Kerry L. Robinson, Susan J. Elliott et al. · Qualitative Health Research | 31 Jan 2006 | 1,034 |
| 26 | Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities Günther Eysenbach, James E. Till · BMJ | 10 Nov 2001 | 983 |
| 27 | Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology Andrew Abbott, Angela Tsay · Sociological Methods & Research | Aug 2000 | 933 |
| 28 | The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology Mike Savage, Roger Burrows · Sociology | 16 Aug 2007 | 922 |
| 29 | Reflexivity in Qualitative Research Joan E. Dodgson · Journal of Human Lactation | 8 Mar 2019 | 847 |
| 30 | IPDfromKM: reconstruct individual patient data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves Na Liu, Yanhong Zhou, J. Jack Lee · BMC Medical Research Methodology | Jun 2021 | 834 |
| 31 | Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research Farhana Sultana · Open Collections | 8 Mar 2015 | 831 |
| 32 | Grounded Theory Methods and Qualitative Family Research Ralph LaRossa · Journal of Marriage and the Family | 20 Sep 2005 | 826 |
| 33 | Is verbatim transcription of interview data always necessary? Elizabeth Halcomb, Patricia Mary Davidson · Applied Nursing Research | Feb 2006 | 825 |
| 34 | Guidelines for Establishing Reliability When Coding Narrative Data Moin Syed, Sarah C. Nelson · Emerging Adulthood | 26 May 2015 | 818 |
| 35 | Protecting Respondent Confidentiality in Qualitative Research Karen Kaiser · Qualitative Health Research | 20 Oct 2009 | 802 |
| 36 | Secondary Data Analysis: A Method of which the Time Has Come Melissa P. Johnston · Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries | 28 May 2017 | 746 |
| 37 | Brief Note on the Origins, Evolution, and Meaning of the Qualitative Research Concept Thick Description Joseph G. Ponterotto · The Qualitative Report | 16 Jan 2015 | 721 |
| 38 | Anonymising interview data: challenges and compromise in practice Benjamin Saunders, Jenny V. Kitzinger, Celia Kitzinger · Qualitative Research | 23 Sep 2014 | 638 |
| 39 | Designing and using research questionnaires Jenny Rowley · Management Research Review | 11 Feb 2014 | 625 |
| 40 | The SAIL Databank: building a national architecture for e-health research and evaluation David Vincent Ford, Kerina Helen Jones, Jean-Philippe Verplancke et al. · BMC Health Services Research | 4 Sep 2009 | 598 |
| 41 | Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health Sarah E. Curtis, Wil Gesler, Glenn E. Smith et al. · Social Science & Medicine | Apr 2000 | 595 |
| 42 | The Structure of Autobiographical Memory and the Event History Calendar: Potential Improvements in the Quality of Retrospective Reports in Surveys Robert F. Belli · Memory | Jul 1998 | 587 |
| 43 | Talking whilst walking: a geographical archaeology of knowledge Jon Anderson · Area | Sep 2004 | 584 |
| 44 | Conducting secondary analysis of qualitative data: Should we, can we, and how? Nicole Ruggiano, Tam Elisabeth Perry · Qualitative Social Work | 14 Apr 2017 | 581 |
| 45 | The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Doing a Secondary Analysis of a Qualitative Data Set Pamela S. Hinds, Ralph J. Vogel, Laura Clarke-Steffen · Qualitative Health Research | Aug 1997 | 579 |
| 46 | “Placing” Interviews: Location and Scales of Power in Qualitative Research Sarah A. Elwood, Deborah G. Martin · The Professional Geographer | Nov 2000 | 566 |
| 47 | Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman: between discourse in the abstract and face-to-face interaction Ian Hacking · Economy and Society | Aug 2004 | 561 |
| 48 | Considering quality in qualitative interviewing Kathryn Roulston · Qualitative Research | Apr 2010 | 537 |
| 49 | The group interview in social research James H. Frey, Andrea Fontana · The Social Science Journal | Jun 1991 | 528 |
| 50 | MyLifeBits Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Lueder · Communications of the ACM | 2006 | 520 |
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