Publisher's Description: The Third Edition of the bestselling text Research Design by John W. Creswell enables readers to compare three approaches to research-qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods-in a single research methods text. The book presents these three approaches side by side...

Der Band versammelt zentrale, teilweise unveröffentlichte Aufsätze der Autorin zu den relevanten Fragen sozialwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung. Die Themen reichen von Problemen der Kontextabhängigkeit über die Herausforderungen der Soziologie durch die moderne Biologie bis hin zu den...

The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations....