2019 Hits: Methodological Innovations

What did researchers read and cite in 2019?

SAGE MethodSpace features original posts, interviews, and resources about using, developing, teaching, or writing about research methods.  As 2019 draws to a close, we're highlighting relevant open access articles that attracted readers' attentions this year.

Methodological Innovations is an international, open access journal and the principal venue for publishing peer-reviewed, social-research methods articles. Methodological Innovations is the forum for methodological advances and debates in social research method and methodology. 

Here are references and links for the most read and cited articles. You will note that the most read and cited sources were not necessarily published in 2019. 

Most Read (listed in the order of download popularity)

Connelly, R., Gayle, V., & Lambert, P. S. (2016). A Review of occupation-based social classifications for social survey research. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799116638003

Connelly, R., Gayle, V., & Lambert, P. S. (2016). A review of educational attainment measures for social survey research. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799116638001

Connelly, R., Gayle, V., & Lambert, P. S. (2016). Ethnicity and ethnic group measures in social survey research. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799116642885

Berchtold, A. (2016). Test–retest: Agreement or reliability? Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799116672875

Zempi, I. (2017). Researching victimisation using auto-ethnography: Wearing the Muslim veil in public. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799117720617

Ahrens, P. (2018). Qualitative network analysis: A useful tool for investigating policy networks in transnational settings? Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799118769816

Most Cited ( Most cited articles published in this journal in the last 3 years. )

Morris, C. (2018). ‘You can’t stand on a corner and talk about it …’: Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799118768422

Moseholm, E., & Fetters, M. D. (2017). Conceptual models to guide integration during analysis in convergent mixed methods studies. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799117703118

Hansen, L. (2019). Motherhood muzzled: The challenges in recruiting mothers of preschool-aged children. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799119889576