Class information for:
Level 1: QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS//CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS//QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS QCA

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
18620 477 48.8 25%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
1444 7315 MOBILIZATION//SYMBOLIC INTERACTION//SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Author keyword 6 25% 4% 19
2 CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS Author keyword 6 100% 1% 4
3 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS QCA Author keyword 5 38% 2% 10
4 COLOGNE MANAGEMENT ECON SOCIAL SCI CGS Address 4 67% 1% 4
5 CSQCA Author keyword 4 75% 1% 3
6 MVQCA Author keyword 4 75% 1% 3
7 FSQCA Author keyword 4 35% 2% 9
8 CRISP SET QCA Author keyword 3 100% 1% 3
9 ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY Author keyword 3 40% 1% 6
10 PROCESS TRACING Author keyword 3 18% 3% 15

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 6 25% 4% 19 Search QUALITATIVE+COMPARATIVE+ANALYSIS Search QUALITATIVE+COMPARATIVE+ANALYSIS
2 CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS 6 100% 1% 4 Search CONFIGURATIONAL+COMPARATIVE+METHODS Search CONFIGURATIONAL+COMPARATIVE+METHODS
3 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS QCA 5 38% 2% 10 Search QUALITATIVE+COMPARATIVE+ANALYSIS+QCA Search QUALITATIVE+COMPARATIVE+ANALYSIS+QCA
4 CSQCA 4 75% 1% 3 Search CSQCA Search CSQCA
5 MVQCA 4 75% 1% 3 Search MVQCA Search MVQCA
6 FSQCA 4 35% 2% 9 Search FSQCA Search FSQCA
7 CRISP SET QCA 3 100% 1% 3 Search CRISP+SET+QCA Search CRISP+SET+QCA
8 ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY 3 40% 1% 6 Search ANALYTICAL+SOCIOLOGY Search ANALYTICAL+SOCIOLOGY
9 PROCESS TRACING 3 18% 3% 15 Search PROCESS+TRACING Search PROCESS+TRACING
10 SOCIAL MECHANISM 2 38% 1% 5 Search SOCIAL+MECHANISM Search SOCIAL+MECHANISM

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 BIG CONCLUSIONS 18 89% 2% 8
2 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 18 49% 5% 26
3 FUZZY SET ANALYSIS 8 70% 1% 7
4 NESTED ANALYSIS 8 60% 2% 9
5 UNION GROWTH 6 80% 1% 4
6 CRISP SET 6 71% 1% 5
7 CAUSAL MECHANISMS 6 41% 2% 11
8 SOCIAL SECURITY STATE 6 100% 1% 4
9 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS QCA 3 57% 1% 4
10 MULTIVALUE QCA 3 100% 1% 3

Journals

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active
references		 % act. ref.
to same field
AFTER KKV The New Methodology of Qualitative Research 2010 42 18 78%
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Anno 2013: Reframing The Comparative Method's Seminal Statements 2013 2 10 100%
Thin Explanations: A Review of The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology 2013 0 2 100%
Perspectival Realism, Representational Models, and the Social Sciences 2010 0 3 100%
A Pragmatist Theory of Social Mechanisms 2009 113 37 11%
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and related systematic comparative methods - Recent advances and remaining challenges for social science research 2006 50 34 59%
Paradoxes and Pitfalls in Using Fuzzy Set QCA: Illustrations from a Critical Review of a Study of Educational Inequality 2011 3 6 67%
Review article: The mechanismic worldview: Thinking inside the box 2008 24 38 34%
Toward a unified theory of causality 2008 29 39 28%
A unified framework for the social sciences 2005 22 27 37%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ.
in class
1 COLOGNE MANAGEMENT ECON SOCIAL SCI CGS 4 67% 0.8% 4
2 BUSINESS GOVT ECON 1 50% 0.2% 1
3 EXCELLENCE PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCI 1 50% 0.2% 1
4 NIELS BOHR PROFESSORSHIP CULTURAL PSYCHOL 1 50% 0.2% 1
5 PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL SOC 1 50% 0.2% 1
6 EUROPEAN UNION PROGRAM 1 29% 0.4% 2
7 HUMANITIES SOCIAL POLIT SCI 1 15% 0.8% 4
8 MINDA DE GUNZBURG EUROPEAN STUDIES 0 14% 0.6% 3
9 CIENCIA POLIT SOCIOL 0 33% 0.2% 1
10 COOPERAT SCI 0 33% 0.2% 1

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000146371 JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS//EVALUATION//CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS
2 0.0000128865 OTTOMAN CYPRUS//SFP//URA 1294
3 0.0000114431 OPTIMAL MATCHING//DE STANDARDIZATION//OPTIMAL MATCHING ANALYSIS
4 0.0000110147 MODEL OF FRAME SELECTION//RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY//ALFRED SCHUTZ
5 0.0000104333 AMERICAN SCHOOL//OPEN ECONOMY POLITICS//EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE
6 0.0000090965 SOCIAL AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION//ANALYTICAL DUALISM//C S SOCIAL SIMULAT
7 0.0000084069 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//EXPLANATION//SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION
8 0.0000080515 EXTENDED CASE METHOD//ATLANTIC CITY//CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
9 0.0000076381 AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM//APPLIED DECISION ANALYSIS//ASIAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
10 0.0000075498 METATHEORIZING//ACADEMIC DEANS//AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION