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Generalizability in Qualitative Research: A Tale of Two Traditions

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Health Research, July 2018
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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1 policy source
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31 X users
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1 Facebook page
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1 Google+ user
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1 Bluesky user

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767 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Generalizability in Qualitative Research: A Tale of Two Traditions
Published in
Qualitative Health Research, July 2018
DOI 10.1177/1049732318788379
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 767 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 105 14%
Student > Master 86 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 53 7%
Researcher 40 5%
Student > Bachelor 38 5%
Other 102 13%
Unknown 343 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 76 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 74 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 57 7%
Psychology 47 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 41 5%
Other 109 14%
Unknown 363 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#2,022,802
of 34,444,361 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Health Research
#150
of 2,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,250
of 373,046 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Health Research
#6
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,444,361 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,176 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 373,046 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.