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Researching the researcher-as-instrument: an exercise in interviewer self-reflexivity

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Research, April 2012
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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 (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Researching the researcher-as-instrument: an exercise in interviewer self-reflexivity
Published in
Qualitative Research, April 2012
DOI 10.1177/1468794111422107
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
South Africa 3 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 764 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 152 19%
Student > Master 111 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 79 10%
Researcher 49 6%
Lecturer 40 5%
Other 124 16%
Unknown 230 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 194 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 74 9%
Psychology 71 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 4%
Other 133 17%
Unknown 244 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 04 April 2021.
All research outputs
#3,572,629
of 29,526,682 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Research
#109
of 768 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,363
of 183,507 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Research
#2
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,526,682 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 768 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.