Integration of qualitative evidence: Towards construction of academic knowledge in social science and professional fields

Qualitative Research

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 645-663

  Major, Claire Howell ^a   Savin Baden, Maggi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

constructionism; critical interpretive synthesis; meta ethnography; qualitative meta analysis; qualitative research; qualitative research synthesis (QRS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555184959     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794111413367     Document Type: Article

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