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| Title |
An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research
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|---|---|
| Published in |
British Medical Journal, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.i563 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Trisha Greenhalgh, Ellen Annandale, Richard Ashcroft, James Barlow, Nick Black, Alan Bleakley, Ruth Boaden, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Nicky Britten, Franco Carnevale, Kath Checkland, Julianne Cheek, Alex Clark, Simon Cohn, Jack Coulehan, Benjamin Crabtree, Steven Cummins, Frank Davidoff, Huw Davies, Robert Dingwall, Mary Dixon-Woods, Glyn Elwyn, Eivind Engebretsen, Ewan Ferlie, Naomi Fulop, John Gabbay, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Dariusz Galasinski, Ruth Garside, Lucy Gilson, Peter Griffiths, Penny Hawe, Jan-Kees Helderman, Brian Hodges, David Hunter, Margaret Kearney, Celia Kitzinger, Jenny Kitzinger, Ayelet Kuper, Saville Kushner, Andree Le May, France Legare, Lorelei Lingard, Louise Locock, Jill Maben, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Frances Mair, Russell Mannion, Martin Marshall, Carl May, Nicholas Mays, Lorna McKee, Marissa Miraldo, David Morgan, Janice Morse, Sarah Nettleton, Sandy Oliver, Warrren Pearce, Pierre Pluye, Catherine Pope, Glenn Robert, Celia Roberts, Stefania Rodella, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Margarete Sandelowski, Paul Shekelle, Fiona Stevenson, Sharon Straus, Deborah Swinglehurst, Sally Thorne, Göran Tomson, Gerd Westert, Sue Wilkinson, Brian Williams, Terry Young, Sue Ziebland |
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X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 681 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 191 | 28% |
| Canada | 54 | 8% |
| United States | 47 | 7% |
| Australia | 41 | 6% |
| Ireland | 22 | 3% |
| Spain | 19 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 13 | 2% |
| Norway | 6 | <1% |
| Poland | 6 | <1% |
| Other | 59 | 9% |
| Unknown | 223 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 349 | 51% |
| Scientists | 218 | 32% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 86 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 27 | 4% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 644 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Slovenia | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 630 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 106 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 101 | 16% |
| Researcher | 74 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 43 | 7% |
| Professor | 40 | 6% |
| Other | 135 | 21% |
| Unknown | 145 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 152 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 101 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 74 | 11% |
| Psychology | 39 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 17 | 3% |
| Other | 90 | 14% |
| Unknown | 171 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 480. 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 21 March 2025.
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#70,760
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Outputs from British Medical Journal
#1,072
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#993
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#18
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So far Altmetric has tracked 75,520 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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