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Advancing qualitative research using qualitative data analysis software (QDAS)? Reviewing potential versus practice in published studies using ATLAS.ti and NVivo, 1994-2013
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Woods, M and Paulus, T and Atkins, D and Macklin, R, Advancing qualitative research using qualitative data analysis software (QDAS)? Reviewing potential versus practice in published studies using ATLAS.ti and NVivo, 1994-2013, Social Science Computer Review, 34, (5) pp. 597-617. ISSN 0894-4393 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439315596311
DOI: doi:10.1177/0894439315596311
Abstract
Qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) programs are well-established research tools, but little is
known about how researchers use them. This article reports the results of a content analysis of 763
empirical articles, published in the Scopus database between 1994 and 2013, which explored how
researchers use the ATLAS.ti™ and NVivo™ QDAS programs.* The analysis specifically investigated
who is using these tools (in terms of subject discipline and author country of origin), and how they
are being used to support research (in terms of type of data, type of study, and phase of the research
process that QDAS were used to support). The study found that the number of articles reporting
QDAS is increasing each year, and that the majority of studies using ATLAS.ti™ and NVivo™ were
published in health sciences journals by authors from the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands,
Canada, and Australia. Researchers used QDAS to support a variety of research designs and
most commonly used the programs to support analyses of data gathered through interviews, focus
groups, documents, field notes, and open-ended survey questions. Although QDAS can support
multiple phases of the research process, the study found the vast majority of researchers are using it
for data management and analysis, with fewer using it for data collection/creation or to visually
display their methods and findings. This article concludes with some discussion of the extent to
which QDAS users appear to have leveraged the potential of these programs to support new
approaches to research.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | qualitative data analysis software, CAQDAS, QDAS, ATLAS.ti™, NVivo™, qualitative research, |
| Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Research Group: | Business and Management |
| Research Field: | Innovation and Technology Management |
| Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
| Objective Group: | Computer Software and Services |
| Objective Field: | Application Software Packages (excl. Computer Games) |
| Author: | Woods, M (Dr Megan Woods) |
| Author: | Macklin, R (Dr Rob Macklin) |
| ID Code: | 105010 |
| Year Published: | 2016 (online first 2015) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
| Deposited By: | Tasmanian School of Business and Economics |
| Deposited On: | 2015-12-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-28 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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