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Focus groups: A new tool for qualitative research

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Sociology, September 1984
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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Title
Focus groups: A new tool for qualitative research
Published in
Qualitative Sociology, September 1984
DOI 10.1007/bf00987314
Authors

David L. Morgan, Margaret T. Spanish

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 <1%
United States 5 <1%
United Arab Emirates 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 575 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 122 21%
Student > Master 118 20%
Student > Bachelor 48 8%
Researcher 41 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 35 6%
Other 107 18%
Unknown 124 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 124 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 81 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 6%
Arts and Humanities 33 6%
Psychology 29 5%
Other 156 26%
Unknown 139 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 July 2017.
All research outputs
#3,621,629
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Sociology
#81
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Outputs of similar age
#511
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Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Sociology
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