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Theory Construction in Qualitative Research

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Theory, September 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 420)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
51 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors

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mendeley
3953 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
Published in
Sociological Theory, September 2012
DOI 10.1177/0735275112457914
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 12 <1%
United States 7 <1%
Denmark 5 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Russia 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 12 <1%
Unknown 3907 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 814 21%
Student > Master 471 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 325 8%
Researcher 262 7%
Lecturer 150 4%
Other 666 17%
Unknown 1265 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1000 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 668 17%
Unspecified 119 3%
Engineering 106 3%
Arts and Humanities 102 3%
Other 588 15%
Unknown 1370 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 25 August 2026.
All research outputs
#836,162
of 34,627,414 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Theory
#10
of 420 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,892
of 224,509 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Theory
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,627,414 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 420 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 224,509 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1 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