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How Many Interviews Are Enough?

Overview of attention for article published in Field Methods, February 2006
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 377)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
17 policy sources
twitter
102 X users
patent
1 patent
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors
guideline
1 clinical guideline source
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
17279 Mendeley
citeulike
10 CiteULike
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
How Many Interviews Are Enough?
Published in
Field Methods, February 2006
DOI 10.1177/1525822x05279903
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 76 <1%
United Kingdom 62 <1%
Canada 22 <1%
Malaysia 16 <1%
South Africa 14 <1%
Australia 14 <1%
Germany 12 <1%
Spain 8 <1%
Brazil 7 <1%
Other 85 <1%
Unknown 16963 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2528 15%
Student > Master 2305 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 1061 6%
Researcher 1053 6%
Student > Bachelor 836 5%
Other 2592 15%
Unknown 6904 40%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2139 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 1820 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 963 6%
Psychology 905 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 750 4%
Other 3411 20%
Unknown 7291 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 160. 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 02 September 2026.
All research outputs
#323,785
of 34,637,917 outputs
Outputs from Field Methods
#2
of 377 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#616
of 234,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Field Methods
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,637,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 377 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 234,689 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them