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An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Research in Nursing, December 2019
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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 (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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Article details
Title
An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research
Published in
Journal of Research in Nursing, December 2019
DOI 10.1177/1744987119880234
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2825 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 189 7%
Student > Bachelor 174 6%
Lecturer 146 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 110 4%
Researcher 81 3%
Other 277 10%
Unknown 1848 65%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 360 13%
Social Sciences 103 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 85 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 64 2%
Psychology 55 2%
Other 285 10%
Unknown 1873 66%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 08 July 2026.
All research outputs
#4,756,856
of 33,738,238 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Research in Nursing
#79
of 721 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#86,484
of 525,221 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Research in Nursing
#3
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,738,238 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 721 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.