[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":431},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal":3,"answers-cluster-publishing":106,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal":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":67,"outbound":79,"path":86,"primaryQuery":87,"product":88,"related":89,"seo":92,"sources":93,"stem":104,"updated":97,"__hash__":105},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal.md","How to Tell If a Journal Is Predatory","Check membership and indexing rather than appearance. Look for the journal in the Directory of Open Access Journals, check whether the publisher belongs to COPE or OASPA, and look up the named editors to see whether they exist and know they are listed. Predatory sites now look professional.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":62},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,29,34,37,40,43,46,49,53,56,59],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The old advice, watch for bad grammar and garish websites, has stopped working. Predatory publishing became a professional industry, and current sites are indistinguishable from legitimate ones on presentation. Some copy the branding of real journals closely enough to fool experienced researchers, including using a real journal's name with a slightly altered domain.",[11,15,16],{},"What still works is verification through independent sources. A legitimate journal is discoverable somewhere you can check: a curated index, a publisher that belongs to an ethics body, a listing in your library's databases. A journal that exists only on its own website and in the emails it sends you has not been verified by anyone.",[11,18,19],{},"Be precise about what you are accusing a journal of. Using the Committee on Publication Ethics definition, predatory publishing is the systematic, for-profit dissemination of purported scholarship through deceptive or fraudulent practices and without quality assurance (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 1). The test is the process, not the price or the business model. A survey of 1,007 top-quartile medical journals across 29 specialties found median article processing charges of $4,190 across 698 hybrid journals and $2,940 across 307 fully open-access journals (Tocco et al., 2025, p. 4), so a four-figure fee on its own tells you to investigate, not to walk away.",[11,21,22],{},"The unsolicited invitation is the strongest single signal. Real journals rarely email individual early-career researchers asking for submissions, and they never flatter you about a paper they have not read. An email praising your recent work and inviting a submission with a fast track is a form letter sent to thousands.",[11,24,25],{},"Treat blocklists as leads rather than verdicts. Beall's List was taken down in 2017, the versions that circulated afterwards were anonymous, and Cabells is not a complete solution on its own (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 4). A listing tells you to read the inclusion criteria and then check the journal's own practices, and absence from a list proves nothing, because new predatory journals keep appearing. When the evidence stays mixed, verify the publisher's physical address and contact details and check whether it belongs to COPE, ICMJE, OASPA, or C4DISC (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 4).",[11,27,28],{},"Ask a librarian. Research librarians deal with this weekly, they know the current patterns, and they will check a journal for you in about ten minutes. It is the fastest reliable answer available.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"which-checks-are-actually-reliable","Which checks are actually reliable?",[11,35,36],{},"Four. Indexing in a curated database rather than a self-declared list. Publisher membership of a recognized ethics body. Editors who are real, contactable researchers in the field. And a peer review process with a plausible timeline, since a promise of review in 72 hours is a promise not to review.",[11,38,39],{},"The editor check is worth doing properly. Email one of the listed editorial board members and ask whether they are active on the board. Predatory journals routinely list researchers without their knowledge, and those researchers are usually glad to be told.",[11,41,42],{},"Check the article processing charge and when it is disclosed. A legitimate fee is published before submission. A fee that appears only after acceptance is a strong signal, and so is a fee that is unusually low for the claimed service.",[11,44,45],{},"The size of the fee decides nothing by itself. Legitimate journals may charge US$5,000 or more, and some open-access journals charge authors nothing (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 2). What a journal owes you before submission is a full disclosure of processing charges, page charges, translation fees, and any other cost, plus a clear answer on waivers. The APC survey above is narrower than it looks, since it covered only top-quartile Journal Citation Reports journals, excluded diamond open access and journals with $0 charges, and did not collect submission or review fees (Tocco et al., 2025, pp. 7-8), so do not treat its medians as the normal range for your field. If the journal advertises a Journal Impact Factor, look it up in Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports. A metric that is not in the database it names is a concrete finding, not an impression (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 3).",[11,47,48],{},"Judge the editorial board on evidence you can check. Named editors should carry institutional affiliations, their professional profiles should confirm they serve on the board, and their expertise should match the journal's stated scope. The same source warns you not to use institutional prestige, geography, or personal familiarity as a legitimacy test (Leonard et al., 2021, pp. 2-3), which matters because that reflex penalizes small independent journals and journals from under-resourced regions rather than the operations you are trying to catch.",[30,50,52],{"id":51},"what-do-i-do-if-i-already-submitted","What do I do if I already submitted?",[11,54,55],{},"Withdraw immediately and in writing, before acceptance if possible, and keep the correspondence. If they demand a withdrawal fee, that demand is itself confirmation. If the paper was already published, you generally cannot submit it elsewhere, and your institution's research office is the right place to go next.",[11,57,58],{},"Do not pay a withdrawal fee. There is no legitimate charge for withdrawing a manuscript before acceptance, and paying tends to produce further demands.",[11,60,61],{},"If the paper is out and you want it removed, ask formally in writing and keep records. Success is uneven, and your research office or library may have dealt with the same publisher before. This happens to careful people, and handling it openly is far better than hoping nobody notices.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":65},"",4,[66,68],{"id":32,"depth":67,"text":33},2,{"id":51,"depth":67,"text":52},"publishing","The checks that reliably identify a predatory journal, which warning signs no longer work on their own, and what to do if you have already submitted to one.","md",[73,74],{"q":33,"a":36},{"q":52,"a":55},"How do I tell if a journal is predatory?","answer",{},true,[80,83],{"label":81,"to":82},"AI verification of claims and citations","\u002Fdocs\u002Fcore-concepts\u002Fai-verification",{"label":84,"to":85},"What separates AI research tools","\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-separates-ai-research-tools","\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","how to tell if a journal is predatory",null,[90,91],"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original",{"title":5,"description":70},[94,98,101],{"label":95,"url":96,"checked":97},"Leonard et al., Ten simple rules for avoiding predatory publishing scams, PLoS Computational Biology (2021)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1009377","2026-08-06",{"label":99,"url":100,"checked":97},"Tocco et al., Variability in article processing charges of open-access publishing across medical specialties, PLoS One (2025)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pone.0320684",{"label":102,"url":103,"checked":97},"Bourne, Ten simple rules for getting published, PLoS Computational Biology (2005)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.0010057","answers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","5ygOt9rZxT16jKsj8MrLzPfpW3TZbGQrwCpVSncFonY",[107,112,113,118,122,127,132,137,142,147],{"path":108,"heading":109,"description":110,"order":111},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","How do I choose a journal for my paper?","How to choose a journal that will actually consider your paper, whether impact factor matters at your career stage, and how to read a scope statement properly.",1,{"path":86,"heading":75,"description":70,"order":67},{"path":114,"heading":115,"description":116,"order":117},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?","How to write a response to reviewers that gets a paper accepted, what to do when a reviewer is wrong, and how to structure the response letter itself.",3,{"path":119,"heading":120,"description":121,"order":64},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?","The real reasons editors reject papers without review, whether it is worth asking for reconsideration, and how to choose where to send the paper next.",{"path":123,"heading":124,"description":125,"order":126},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?","What actually happens to a manuscript after submission, how long peer review typically takes and why, and what the standard decision terms mean in practice.",5,{"path":128,"heading":129,"description":130,"order":131},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?","What a journal submission cover letter should contain, what the editor is actually reading it for, and whether to suggest or exclude specific reviewers.",6,{"path":133,"heading":134,"description":135,"order":136},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint","Should I post my paper as a preprint?","Whether to post your paper as a preprint before submission, whether journals will still accept it afterwards, and whether preprints count as publications.",7,{"path":138,"heading":139,"description":140,"order":141},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?","How to cite a preprint correctly, when citing unreviewed work is appropriate in a thesis or paper, and what to do when the preprint is later published.",8,{"path":143,"heading":144,"description":145,"order":146},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?","Whether open access publishing always costs money, what the green, gold, and diamond routes mean in practice, and what your options are with no funding.",9,{"path":148,"heading":149,"description":150,"order":151},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?","How authorship order is determined in different fields, what counts as enough contribution to be an author, and what to do when there is a dispute.",10,[153,156,159,162,165,168,171,174,177,180,183,186,189,192,195,198,201,204,207,210,213,215,218,221,224,227,230,233,236,239,242,245,248,251,254,257,260,263,266,269,272,275,278,281,284,287,290,293,296,299,302,305,308,311,314,317,320,321,322,323,324,325,326,327,328,329,330,333,336,339,342,345,348,351,354,357,360,363,366,369,372,375,378,381,384,387,389,392,395,398,401,404,407,410,413,416,419,422,425,428],{"path":154,"heading":155},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?",{"path":157,"heading":158},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?",{"path":160,"heading":161},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?",{"path":163,"heading":164},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis","How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?",{"path":166,"heading":167},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?",{"path":169,"heading":170},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?",{"path":172,"heading":173},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?",{"path":175,"heading":176},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-thesis-introduction","How do I write a thesis introduction?",{"path":178,"heading":179},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","How do I write an abstract for a research paper?",{"path":181,"heading":182},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?",{"path":184,"heading":185},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":187,"heading":188},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":190,"heading":191},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":193,"heading":194},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":196,"heading":197},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":199,"heading":200},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":202,"heading":203},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":205,"heading":206},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":208,"heading":209},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":211,"heading":212},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":90,"heading":214},"How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":216,"heading":217},"\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":219,"heading":220},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":222,"heading":223},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":225,"heading":226},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":228,"heading":229},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":231,"heading":232},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":234,"heading":235},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":237,"heading":238},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":240,"heading":241},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":243,"heading":244},"\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":246,"heading":247},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":249,"heading":250},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":252,"heading":253},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":255,"heading":256},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":258,"heading":259},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":261,"heading":262},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":264,"heading":265},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":267,"heading":268},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":270,"heading":271},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":273,"heading":274},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":276,"heading":277},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Freview-that-leads-to-your-question","How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":279,"heading":280},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":282,"heading":283},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":285,"heading":286},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":288,"heading":289},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":291,"heading":292},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":294,"heading":295},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva","How do I defend my methodology in a viva?",{"path":297,"heading":298},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?",{"path":300,"heading":301},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?",{"path":303,"heading":304},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?",{"path":306,"heading":307},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?",{"path":309,"heading":310},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?",{"path":312,"heading":313},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","What happens if you fail a PhD viva?",{"path":315,"heading":316},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?",{"path":318,"heading":319},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?",{"path":108,"heading":109},{"path":143,"heading":144},{"path":148,"heading":149},{"path":123,"heading":124},{"path":138,"heading":139},{"path":128,"heading":129},{"path":114,"heading":115},{"path":133,"heading":134},{"path":86,"heading":75},{"path":119,"heading":120},{"path":331,"heading":332},"\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":334,"heading":335},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":337,"heading":338},"\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":340,"heading":341},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":343,"heading":344},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":346,"heading":347},"\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":349,"heading":350},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":352,"heading":353},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":355,"heading":356},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":358,"heading":359},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":361,"heading":362},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":364,"heading":365},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":367,"heading":368},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":370,"heading":371},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":373,"heading":374},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":376,"heading":377},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":379,"heading":380},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":382,"heading":383},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?",{"path":385,"heading":386},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?",{"path":91,"heading":388},"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?",1786014769441]