Class information for:
Level 1: META SYNTHESIS//QUALITATIVE METASYNTHESIS//META ETHNOGRAPHY

Basic class information
Class id #P Avg. number of
references		 Database coverage
of references
23044 360 38.8 43%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes
The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.


Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
1 4 ECONOMICS//EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH//PSYCHOL 3876184
327 3       NURSING//JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION//JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 38158
2559 2             QUALITATIVE INQUIRY//JOURNAL OF MIXED METHODS RESEARCH//AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 3720
23044 1                   META SYNTHESIS//QUALITATIVE METASYNTHESIS//META ETHNOGRAPHY 360

Terms with highest relevance score


rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 META SYNTHESIS authKW 404079 10% 13% 36
2 QUALITATIVE METASYNTHESIS authKW 346327 4% 29% 14
3 META ETHNOGRAPHY authKW 256807 5% 17% 18
4 RESEARCH INTEGRATION authKW 188907 2% 32% 7
5 EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS METHODS authKW 169639 1% 100% 2
6 META NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS authKW 169639 1% 100% 2
7 META NARRATIVE REVIEW authKW 169635 1% 50% 4
8 CRITICAL INTERPRETIVE SYNTHESIS authKW 169631 2% 33% 6
9 QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS authKW 163109 1% 38% 5
10 META AGGREGATION authKW 152673 1% 60% 3

Web of Science journal categories


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 Nursing 5960 24% 0% 85
2 Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary 3496 16% 0% 59
3 Information Science & Library Science 2509 13% 0% 48
4 Social Sciences, Biomedical 2354 11% 0% 39
5 Health Care Sciences & Services 2330 18% 0% 63
6 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health 403 15% 0% 53
7 Education & Educational Research 386 8% 0% 29
8 Medical Informatics 165 3% 0% 10
9 Computer Science, Cybernetics 103 2% 0% 6
10 Medicine, General & Internal 97 9% 0% 33

Address terms


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 BEHAV HLTH POLICY UNIT 113092 1% 67% 2
2 ADULT PEDIAT INTENS CARE UNIT 84820 0% 100% 1
3 BELGIAN COCHRANE BRANCH 84820 0% 100% 1
4 BROWN EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE 84820 0% 100% 1
5 BURNLEY MORAN ELEMENTARY 84820 0% 100% 1
6 CLAHRC KNOWLEDGE TRANSLAT PROJECT 84820 0% 100% 1
7 COCHRANE CENT EXECUT 84820 0% 100% 1
8 CRIT CARE NURSING NURSING MIDWIFERY 84820 0% 100% 1
9 CRUK PCERG 84820 0% 100% 1
10 CSCY 84820 0% 100% 1

Journals


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 44994 9% 2% 34
2 BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 26488 6% 2% 20
3 REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 22560 4% 2% 14
4 RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS 17639 2% 3% 6
5 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 12356 2% 2% 7
6 HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL 7346 2% 1% 6
7 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 4634 4% 0% 16
8 JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 2723 2% 0% 8
9 KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY 2421 0% 3% 1
10 JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 2098 4% 0% 14

Author Key Words


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 META SYNTHESIS 404079 10% 13% 36 Search META+SYNTHESIS Search META+SYNTHESIS
2 QUALITATIVE METASYNTHESIS 346327 4% 29% 14 Search QUALITATIVE+METASYNTHESIS Search QUALITATIVE+METASYNTHESIS
3 META ETHNOGRAPHY 256807 5% 17% 18 Search META+ETHNOGRAPHY Search META+ETHNOGRAPHY
4 RESEARCH INTEGRATION 188907 2% 32% 7 Search RESEARCH+INTEGRATION Search RESEARCH+INTEGRATION
5 EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS METHODS 169639 1% 100% 2 Search EVIDENCE+SYNTHESIS+METHODS Search EVIDENCE+SYNTHESIS+METHODS
6 META NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS 169639 1% 100% 2 Search META+NARRATIVE+SYNTHESIS Search META+NARRATIVE+SYNTHESIS
7 META NARRATIVE REVIEW 169635 1% 50% 4 Search META+NARRATIVE+REVIEW Search META+NARRATIVE+REVIEW
8 CRITICAL INTERPRETIVE SYNTHESIS 169631 2% 33% 6 Search CRITICAL+INTERPRETIVE+SYNTHESIS Search CRITICAL+INTERPRETIVE+SYNTHESIS
9 QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS 163109 1% 38% 5 Search QUALITATIVE+EVIDENCE+SYNTHESIS Search QUALITATIVE+EVIDENCE+SYNTHESIS
10 META AGGREGATION 152673 1% 60% 3 Search META+AGGREGATION Search META+AGGREGATION

Core articles
The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.


Rank Reference # ref.
in cl.		 Shr. of ref. in
cl.		 Citations
1 LUDVIGSEN, MS , HALL, EOC , MEYER, G , FEGRAN, L , AAGAARD, H , UHRENFELDT, L , (2016) USING SANDELOWSKI AND BARROSO'S META-SYNTHESIS METHOD IN ADVANCING QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE.QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH. VOL. 26. ISSUE 3. P. 320 -329 26 57% 3
2 SIGURDSON, C , WOODGATE, R , (2015) DESIGNING A METASYNTHESIS STUDY IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY NURSING RESEARCH.JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY NURSING. VOL. 32. ISSUE 6. P. 360 -368 19 76% 0
3 TRICCO, AC , ANTONY, J , SOOBIAH, C , KASTNER, M , MACDONALD, H , COGO, E , LILLIE, E , TRAN, J , STRAUS, SE , (2016) KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS METHODS FOR INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA: A SCOPING REVIEW REVEALS POOR OPERATIONALIZATION OF THE METHODOLOGICAL STEPS.JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. VOL. 73. ISSUE . P. 29 -35 13 87% 1
4 BONDAS, T , HALL, EOC , (2007) CHALLENGES IN APPROACHING METASYNTHESIS RESEARCH.QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH. VOL. 17. ISSUE 1. P. 113-121 17 68% 84
5 PERRIER, L , LIGHTFOOT, D , KEALEY, MR , STRAUS, SE , TRICCO, AC , (2016) KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS.JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. VOL. 73. ISSUE . P. 50 -57 17 61% 0
6 FRANCE, EF , RING, N , THOMAS, R , NOYES, J , MAXWELL, M , JEPSON, R , (2014) A METHODOLOGICAL SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF WHAT'S WRONG WITH META-ETHNOGRAPHY REPORTING.BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. VOL. 14. ISSUE . P. - 15 60% 15
7 KINN, LG , HOLGERSEN, H , EKELAND, TJ , DAVIDSON, L , (2013) METASYNTHESIS AND BRICOLAGE: AN ARTISTIC EXERCISE OF CREATING A COLLAGE OF MEANING.QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH. VOL. 23. ISSUE 9. P. 1285-1292 13 72% 8
8 THOMAS, J , HARDEN, A , (2008) METHODS FOR THE THEMATIC SYNTHESIS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS.BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. VOL. 8. ISSUE . P. - 10 59% 432
9 AGUIRRE, RTP , BOLTON, KW , (2014) QUALITATIVE INTERPRETIVE META-SYNTHESIS IN SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH: UNCHARTED TERRITORY.JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK. VOL. 14. ISSUE 3. P. 279 -294 15 52% 9
10 SURI, H , CLARKE, D , (2009) ADVANCEMENTS IN RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS: FROM A METHODOLOGICALLY INCLUSIVE PERSPECTIVE.REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 79. ISSUE 1. P. 395 -430 21 41% 32

Classes with closest relation at Level 1


Rank Class id link
1 36985 AUDIENCE CENTERED APPROACH//CLINICAL CONTROLLED//FAMILY LIFE CYCLES
2 14929 JOURNAL OF MIXED METHODS RESEARCH//MIXED METHODS RESEARCH//MIXED METHODS
3 6626 MEDLINE//EMBASE//LITERATURE SEARCHING
4 35497 ABET OUTCOME G//ADVANCED STUDIES//AHFAD SCI TECHNOL
5 21092 SENSITIVE RESEARCH//QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH//INTERVIEWING
6 32635 HISTORY OF DUTCH PSYCHOLOGY//APPRAISAL CRITERIA//AREA CROSS CULTURAL COMMUN
7 21270 JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE//MEDICAL EPISTEMOLOGY//EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
8 19598 THEORETICAL DOMAINS FRAMEWORK//IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE//CLIN EPIDEMIOL PROGRAMME
9 31724 WELFARE BENEFITS ADVICE//LEGAL SERV//WELFARE BENEFITS
10 5507 HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS//EVIDENCE & POLICY//KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION

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