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What Is Grounded Theory Good For?

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 2018
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Article details
Title
What Is Grounded Theory Good For?
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 2018
DOI 10.1177/1077699018759676
Authors

Vivian B. Martin, Clifton Scott, Bonnie Brennen, Meenakshi Gigi Durham

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Country Count As %
Unknown 135 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 14%
Student > Master 19 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 7%
Researcher 5 4%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 42 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 26%
Arts and Humanities 16 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 7%
Computer Science 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 48 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 01 April 2018.
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#13,348,775
of 23,031,582 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#626
of 931 outputs
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#167,025
of 332,404 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#26
of 44 outputs
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