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A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants’ voices in phenomenological research

Overview of attention for article published in Methodological Innovations, August 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#50 of 239)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)

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Article details
Title
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants’ voices in phenomenological research
Published in
Methodological Innovations, August 2021
DOI 10.1177/20597991211040063
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Country Count As %
Unknown 275 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 6%
Lecturer 13 5%
Student > Bachelor 11 4%
Other 33 12%
Unknown 165 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 24 9%
Social Sciences 19 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 5%
Psychology 12 4%
Arts and Humanities 6 2%
Other 31 11%
Unknown 168 61%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 28 July 2025.
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#6,024,600
of 34,564,881 outputs
Outputs from Methodological Innovations
#50
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Outputs of similar age
#93,083
of 465,040 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Methodological Innovations
#2
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 239 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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