[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":431},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph":3,"answers-cluster-academic-writing":107,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph":152},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"cluster":69,"description":70,"extension":71,"faq":72,"heading":75,"intro":63,"kind":76,"meta":77,"navigation":78,"order":79,"outbound":80,"path":87,"primaryQuery":88,"product":89,"related":90,"seo":93,"sources":94,"stem":105,"updated":98,"__hash__":106},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph.md","Thesis by Publication or Monograph?","Decide by field norms and career plans, then by temperament. Publication format suits the sciences and anyone entering an academic job market that counts papers. A monograph suits humanities work and any argument that needs sustained development across chapters. Check what your regulations permit before deciding anything.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":62},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,31,34,37,40,43,47,50,53,56,59],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The first thing to check is not preference but permission. Regulations differ on how many papers are required, whether they must be published or merely submitted, whether you can be a co-author or must be first author, and how co-authored work is assessed. Some institutions require a signed statement from every co-author about your contribution. Find this out in year one, since retrofitting a format at the end is expensive.",[11,15,16],{},"Assuming both are open to you, the honest trade is between what the thesis is for. A thesis by publication produces artifacts the academic job market reads directly. A monograph produces a sustained argument that a paper series cannot, and in fields where the book is the currency it is also the better preparation for what comes next.",[11,18,19],{},"The publication route has one specific advantage worth naming. A paper carrying your name counts as recognized evidence of research competence, which is why it helps most if you are heading for a PhD or a research job (Saccenti and Furlan, 2025, p. 7). That advantage is conditional. Publication is not guaranteed, supervisors sometimes do not pursue it even when the results are interesting, and the plan has to be negotiated with your supervisor before you commit to the project rather than after (Saccenti and Furlan, 2025, pp. 7-8). Ask who will be an author, what counts as your contribution, whether the regulations want papers submitted or accepted, and who finishes the revisions after you graduate.",[11,21,22],{},"The temperament question is real. Publication format means working to external deadlines and receiving reviewer criticism throughout, which some people find motivating and others find corrosive. Monograph format means years without external validation, which suits people who can hold their own standard and is hard for people who cannot.",[11,24,25],{},"A middle route exists in many institutions: write a monograph and publish two chapters as papers along the way. It carries some cost in reformatting, and it gives you most of the benefits of both.",[27,28,30],"h2",{"id":29},"how-do-published-chapters-get-stitched-into-one-thesis","How do published chapters get stitched into one thesis?",[11,32,33],{},"With connective material: an extended introduction establishing the overall question, short bridges between chapters explaining how each follows from the last, and a discussion that synthesizes across all of them. That connective writing is where a thesis by publication succeeds or fails.",[11,35,36],{},"The bridges do more work than their length suggests. One or two paragraphs at the start of each chapter, saying what the previous chapter established and what this one adds, turns a sequence into an argument. Without them, an examiner sees three papers in a binder.",[11,38,39],{},"Expect to reformat. Papers written for different journals have different conventions, and a thesis usually needs consistent terminology, notation, and reference style throughout, plus a note stating where each chapter was published and what your contribution was.",[11,41,42],{},"The length conventions of the two formats are far apart. Bourne calls the thesis a \"kitchen sink\" and the paper a concise document that should communicate the maximum information in fewer words (Bourne, 2005, p. 341). Material a journal made you cut for length often has to go back into the chapter. Bourne also records the opposing view, that publication receives too much emphasis during a doctorate, while arguing that writing for publication defines scope and supports hypothesis-driven work.",[27,44,46],{"id":45},"what-are-the-risks-of-each-format","What are the risks of each format?",[11,48,49],{},"Publication format risks a thesis that reads as unrelated papers, and it hostages your timeline to review times you do not control. Monograph format risks finishing with nothing published, which is a real disadvantage on an academic job market that reads publication lists first.",[11,51,52],{},"The timeline risk deserves planning rather than worry. Submit early, choose journals with reasonable turnaround for at least one of the papers, and check whether your regulations accept submitted or accepted work rather than published, since that difference can be a year.",[11,54,55],{},"The larger risk under either format is not finishing. Marino, Stefan and Blackford state it directly: research is never really finished, so your job is deciding when the agreed experiments provide enough evidence for the degree, and going back to the laboratory instead of writing delays submission without necessarily improving the thesis (Marino et al., 2014, p. 1). Their remedy works for both formats. Agree a plan with your supervisor about a year before submission, review progress every few weeks, and settle structure, chapter count, and chapter length with them early (Marino et al., 2014, p. 2).",[11,57,58],{},"If you are writing an MSc thesis rather than a doctorate, the timing problem is sharper. Saccenti and Furlan note that an MSc project usually runs 6 to 12 months, so final analysis and paper writing often continue after you submit, while you are looking for a job or applying for a PhD (Saccenti and Furlan, 2025, p. 7). They report that papers out of MSc computational projects are not uncommon in their own group, which is a record from one group rather than a general success rate, so treat it as encouragement and not as a probability.",[11,60,61],{},"The monograph risk is manageable too. Extracting one paper from a monograph mid-degree is normal practice and costs less time than people fear, and it removes the worst version of this problem.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":65},"",4,[66,68],{"id":29,"depth":67,"text":30},2,{"id":45,"depth":67,"text":46},"academic-writing","How to choose between a thesis by publication and a traditional monograph, how published chapters get stitched together, and the risks each format carries.","md",[73,74],{"q":30,"a":33},{"q":46,"a":49},"Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?","answer",{},true,9,[81,84],{"label":82,"to":83},"Outlining a paper from a map","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Foutlining-a-paper",{"label":85,"to":86},"Version history and provenance","\u002Fdocs\u002Fworking-with-the-agent\u002Fversion-history-and-provenance","\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","thesis by publication vs monograph",null,[91,92],"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint",{"title":5,"description":70},[95,99,102],{"label":96,"url":97,"checked":98},"Marino et al., Ten simple rules for finishing your PhD, PLoS Computational Biology (2014)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1003954","2026-08-06",{"label":100,"url":101,"checked":98},"Bourne, Ten simple rules for getting published, PLoS Computational Biology (2005)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.0010057",{"label":103,"url":104,"checked":98},"Saccenti and Furlan, Ten simple rules to complete successfully a computational MSc thesis project, PLoS Computational Biology (2025)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1012756","answers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","TBDHTSaVzE8H9Vz7w_E6g7_ExwkjLZLBSoGztEMeSfc",[108,113,117,122,126,131,136,141,146,147],{"path":109,"heading":110,"description":111,"order":112},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis","How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?","The standard shape of a doctoral thesis chapter by chapter, roughly how long each chapter should be, and when in the process to write the introduction.",1,{"path":114,"heading":115,"description":116,"order":67},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-thesis-introduction","How do I write a thesis introduction?","What a thesis introduction has to establish, the order the moves go in, and how much of the literature belongs in the introduction rather than the review chapter.",{"path":118,"heading":119,"description":120,"order":121},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?","How to write a discussion that interprets rather than restates, what to do about findings that contradict the literature, and how honest the limitations should be.",3,{"path":123,"heading":124,"description":125,"order":64},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","How do I write an abstract for a research paper?","How to write a research paper abstract sentence by sentence, what each sentence has to do, and how a thesis abstract differs from a journal article abstract.",{"path":127,"heading":128,"description":129,"order":130},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?","How to paraphrase a source properly, how different the wording has to be, and when quoting directly is the better choice than rewriting in your own words.",5,{"path":132,"heading":133,"description":134,"order":135},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?","What a methodology chapter has to contain, how much detail is enough, and how to justify your methodological choices rather than merely describing them.",6,{"path":137,"heading":138,"description":139,"order":140},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?","How to keep drafting when every second sentence needs a source, which placeholder system actually works, and when to go back and fill the citations in.",7,{"path":142,"heading":143,"description":144,"order":145},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?","How to build a writing habit that survives a doctorate, how long a writing session should actually be, and what to do on the days when nothing comes.",8,{"path":87,"heading":75,"description":70,"order":79},{"path":148,"heading":149,"description":150,"order":151},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?","A realistic length for a doctoral literature review chapter, roughly how many sources that comes to, and what to cut when the chapter has run too long.",10,[153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,166,169,172,175,178,181,184,187,190,193,196,199,202,205,208,211,214,217,220,223,226,229,232,235,238,241,244,247,250,253,256,259,262,265,268,271,274,277,280,283,286,289,292,295,298,301,303,306,309,312,315,318,321,323,326,329,332,335,338,341,344,347,350,353,356,359,362,365,368,371,374,377,380,383,386,389,392,395,398,401,404,407,410,413,416,419,422,425,428],{"path":137,"heading":138},{"path":148,"heading":149},{"path":127,"heading":128},{"path":109,"heading":110},{"path":87,"heading":75},{"path":118,"heading":119},{"path":132,"heading":133},{"path":114,"heading":115},{"path":123,"heading":124},{"path":142,"heading":143},{"path":164,"heading":165},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":167,"heading":168},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":170,"heading":171},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":173,"heading":174},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":176,"heading":177},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":179,"heading":180},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":182,"heading":183},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":185,"heading":186},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":188,"heading":189},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":191,"heading":192},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":194,"heading":195},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":197,"heading":198},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-ai-answers-better-on-your-own-pdfs","Why does an AI answer better when it reads my own PDFs?",{"path":200,"heading":201},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":203,"heading":204},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":206,"heading":207},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":209,"heading":210},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":212,"heading":213},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":215,"heading":216},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":218,"heading":219},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":221,"heading":222},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":224,"heading":225},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fjournal-page-number-or-pdf-page-number","Do I use the journal page number or the PDF page number in a citation?",{"path":227,"heading":228},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":230,"heading":231},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":233,"heading":234},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":236,"heading":237},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":239,"heading":240},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":242,"heading":243},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":245,"heading":246},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":248,"heading":249},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":251,"heading":252},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":254,"heading":255},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":257,"heading":258},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Freview-that-leads-to-your-question","How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":260,"heading":261},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":263,"heading":264},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":266,"heading":267},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":269,"heading":270},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":272,"heading":273},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":275,"heading":276},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva","How do I defend my methodology in a viva?",{"path":278,"heading":279},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?",{"path":281,"heading":282},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?",{"path":284,"heading":285},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?",{"path":287,"heading":288},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?",{"path":290,"heading":291},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?",{"path":293,"heading":294},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","What happens if you fail a PhD viva?",{"path":296,"heading":297},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?",{"path":299,"heading":300},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?",{"path":91,"heading":302},"How do I choose a journal for my paper?",{"path":304,"heading":305},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?",{"path":307,"heading":308},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?",{"path":310,"heading":311},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?",{"path":313,"heading":314},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?",{"path":316,"heading":317},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?",{"path":319,"heading":320},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?",{"path":92,"heading":322},"Should I post my paper as a preprint?",{"path":324,"heading":325},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","How do I tell if a journal is predatory?",{"path":327,"heading":328},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?",{"path":330,"heading":331},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ffind-the-paper-you-half-remember","How do I find a paper when I only remember the argument it made?",{"path":333,"heading":334},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":336,"heading":337},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhow-many-papers-can-you-read-a-day","How many papers can a PhD student realistically read in a day?",{"path":339,"heading":340},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":342,"heading":343},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":345,"heading":346},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnote-system-takes-too-long","What do I do when my note-taking system takes longer than reading the papers?",{"path":348,"heading":349},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":351,"heading":352},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":354,"heading":355},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":357,"heading":358},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":360,"heading":361},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":363,"heading":364},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":366,"heading":367},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":369,"heading":370},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":372,"heading":373},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":375,"heading":376},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":378,"heading":379},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":381,"heading":382},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?",{"path":384,"heading":385},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?",{"path":387,"heading":388},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original","How do I know if my research gap is original?",{"path":390,"heading":391},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fnarrow-a-broad-research-question","How do I narrow down a research question that is too broad?",{"path":393,"heading":394},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","Can a research question change during a PhD?",{"path":396,"heading":397},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-or-hypothesis","What is the difference between a research question and a hypothesis?",{"path":399,"heading":400},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fturn-a-topic-into-a-research-question","How do I turn a research topic into a research question?",{"path":402,"heading":403},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwhat-makes-a-good-research-question","What makes a good research question in a PhD thesis?",{"path":405,"heading":406},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","How do I write a research gap statement?",{"path":408,"heading":409},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fchoose-a-statistical-test","How do I choose which statistical test to use?",{"path":411,"heading":412},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-many-interviews-is-enough","How many interviews are enough for a qualitative study?",{"path":414,"heading":415},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-to-do-thematic-analysis","How do I do thematic analysis step by step?",{"path":417,"heading":418},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Finductive-or-deductive-coding","What is the difference between inductive and deductive thematic analysis?",{"path":420,"heading":421},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fintegrate-mixed-methods-data","How do I integrate qualitative and quantitative data in a mixed methods study?",{"path":423,"heading":424},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Frigour-in-qualitative-research","How do I show rigour in qualitative research?",{"path":426,"heading":427},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwhat-a-p-value-means","What does a p value actually mean?",{"path":429,"heading":430},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwork-out-your-sample-size","How do I calculate the sample size for a study?",1786014769178]