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A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis
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Thematic analysis is an increasingly popular method for analysing qualitative data within the social sciences. Current guides for conducting thematic analysis promote the method’s broad flexibility across research designs, which has resulted in criticism that the method lacks the rigour and structure necessary for credible academic research. Recognizing the challenges faced by qualitative scholars, I developed and present an 8-step prescriptive approach specific to abductive methodologies incorporating many concepts from seminal works in thematic analysis, and importantly maintaining the balance of theorising with empirical data, which is the core of abductive research.
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The paper presents an 8-step prescriptive guide for conducting abductive thematic analysis, balancing empirical data with extant theory. It argues this structured approach addresses criticisms of thematic analysis as lacking rigour while remaining specific to abductive research designs.
Key findings
- Proposes an 8-step process: transcription and familiarisation, coding, codebook, development of themes, theorising, comparison of datasets, data display, and writing up.
- Abductive thematic analysis should produce latent themes, with theorising as a distinct step where existing theory guides but does not determine explanation; theory can be refined, changed, adapted, or consolidated when data do not fit.
- Recommends at least 2–3 rounds of coding and a codebook with label, definition, “when to use”/“when not to use” criteria, and an example quotation; thematic network analysis can show how themes derive from codes.
- Uses examples from the author’s research on ski resort employees and volunteer tourism, including consolidating “fun” and “exciting” codes into “enjoyable work” and combining Bourdieu’s practice theory with Blumer’s symbolic interactionism.
Methods
- Conceptual/methodological paper, not an empirical study; develops an 8-step guide initially during the author’s PhD and refined through the author’s own research and teaching.
- Integrates concepts from thematic analysis (e.g., codebook from Guest et al., 2012; thematic network analysis from Attride-Stirling, 2001) with seminal abductive research principles.
- Illustrates steps with examples from the author’s prior studies, including ski resort employees and volunteer tourism projects.
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- The paper states it is not a one-size-fits-all or flexible method for all thematic analysis; it is tailored specifically to abductive research methodologies.
- The paper notes that advocates of reflexive/inductive thematic analysis have disregarded the codebook as positivistic, and that quantification of qualitative data is often impossible and unnecessary for exploratory conceptual understanding.
- Evident from the text: the guide is based on the author’s experience and selected examples rather than systematic empirical validation or comparison with other abductive thematic analysis guides.
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“However, quantification is not necessary for qualitative thematic analysis.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Step (6) Comparison of Datasets
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“Presenting quotations also improves trustworthiness, as the veracity of the raw empirical data is difficult to challenge, and is a method for demonstrating reflexivity by giving voice to the participants independent of your personal opinions or feelings (Guest et al., 2012).”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Step (8) Writing Up
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“Current guides for conducting thematic analysis promote the method's broad flexibility across research designs”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abstract
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“The theoretical contributions produce a degree of generalizability, as the theorisation of the raw data transcends the individualised social setting, as it has links to existing knowledge and understanding (Coffey & Atkinson, 1996).”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abductive Data Analysis
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“A thematic network analysis technique can address these concerns.”
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“Accordingly, abductive research is described as recursive and iterative because theory is generated theory, but also theoretical development is culled in areas where phenomena are adequately explained by extant literature (Timmermans & Tavory, 2012).”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abductive Data Analysis
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“which has resulted in criticism that the method lacks the rigour and structure necessary for credible academic research.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abstract
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“In the case of abductive thematic analysis, latent themes should always be the outcome as theorisation is central to abductive reasoning, as shall be discussed in the following step.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Step (4) Development of Themes
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“Thematic analysis is an increasingly popular method for analysing qualitative data within the social sciences.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abstract
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“This is an important part of abductive thematic analysis, making it distinct from other guides to qualitative analysis.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Step (5) Theorising
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“Overall, the consolidation of an abductive research design with thematic analysis is an effective tool for gathering rich understanding from participant narratives, while ensuring findings have theoretical generalizability (Coffey & Atkinson, 1996).”
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“However, like with Step 6, there is no requirement for data display to be quantified.”
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“maintaining the balance of theorising with empirical data, which is the core of abductive research.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Abstract
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“Braun et al. (2019) specifically point to the similarities between their approach to thematic analysis with grounded theory, interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), and the active role of the researcher in generating themes.”
§ A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis > Introduction
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“This method can act as a point of departure for any exploratory qualitative data analysis, when a researcher wishes to incorporate theoretical frameworks to guide the research findings.”
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“Many researchers also cite Braun and Clarke (2006), yet within their methodology, there is no mention of researcher reflexivity central to their style of analysis.”
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Guides for abductive research designs are lacking.
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Coding is a cyclical act, as the first round of coding rarely succeeds in identifying all codes.
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When abductively analysing data, often reviewers will question if an academic has over-reached and whether theoretical contributions are truly representative of the raw data.
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Vallis, C., Casey, A., Nash, J., Menner, R., Cram, A., & Zeivots, S. (2025) · Higher Education Research & Development · doi:10.1080/07294360.2024.2429447 · Cited by 5
“We employed an abductive approach, guided by a hauntological lens rather than taking an exploratory (inductive) or theory-testing (deductive) stance (Thompson, 2022).”
Verbeke, K., Krawczyk, T., Baeyens, D., Piasecki, J., & Borry, P. (2022) · Accountability in Research · doi:10.1080/08989621.2022.2153675 · Cited by 5
“Using abductive thematic analysis, these were subsequently scrutinized for statements about the assessment of acceptability of individual deception studies as outlined in the introduction (Thompson 2022).”
Early Childhood Education Leadership in Times of Crisis
Wong, S., Sadow, L., Waniganayake, M., Zurynski, Y. A., Amin, J., Bull, R., Dahm, M. R., Degotardi, S., Donovan, M. J., Hadley, F., et al. (2023) · Verlag Barbara Budrich eBooks · doi:10.2307/jj.2430379 · Cited by 10
Asfiati, A. (2023) · AL-HAYAT Journal of Islamic Education · doi:10.35723/ajie.v7i2.525 · Cited by 5
“Data analysis uses thematic, narrative, and comparative analysis (Thompson, 2022).”
Finding their voice: how children experience philosophical dialogue as a path to liberation
Elbra-Ramsay, C. (2025) · Education 3-13 · doi:10.1080/03004279.2025.2463968 · Cited by 5
“As is common in interpretivist studies (Earl Rinehart 2021), an abductive approach was used in that it was ‘neither data-driven nor hypothesis-driven’ but moved between ‘parallel and equal engagement with … data and … theoretical understanding’ (Thompson 2022, 1411).”
Xia, W., Buljac‐Samardžić, M., Huijsman, R., Smelik, J., & van Wijngaarden, J. D. H. (2025) · The Gerontologist · doi:10.1093/geront/gnaf070 · Cited by 5
Ikhile, I. A. (2025) · Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development · doi:10.24294/jipd11216 · Cited by 4
“In capturing rich contextual data, Google Scholar, relevant conference proceedings, and organizational reports were explored (Thompson, 2022).”
Matos, R. I., Jenkins-Woodrum, K., & Clemons, M. A. (2025) · Military Medicine · doi:10.1093/milmed/usaf427 · Cited by 4
DeBusschere, A., Lunney, M., Reid, S., Verdin, N., Love, S., Thompson, S., Nicholas, D. B., Boulton, T., Schick‐Makaroff, K., Jenstad, L. M., et al. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333587 · Cited by 4
“We implemented a conventional content analysis approach using an abductive thematic coding method to analyze the data [27].”
Self-regulated learning in STEM: non-academics matter
Azizi, M., & Dewsbury, B. (2025) · Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education · doi:10.1128/jmbe.00166-25 · Cited by 5
Tailoring mHealth for Healthy Aging: Focus Group Study With Retirement-Age Adults
Collazo‐Castiñeira, P., Rodríguez‐Rey, R., Cruz-Jentoft, A. J., Allouch, S. B., Eglseer, D., Schoufour, J. D., Topinková, E., Weijs, P. J. M., Boirie, Y., & Sánchez‐Izquierdo, M. (2025) · JMIR mhealth and uhealth · doi:10.2196/70051 · Cited by 6
“This process consisted of 5 stages guided by the recommended steps for abductive analysis [31,32] (Figure 1): Steps in the abductive analysis process of focus group data on mHealth perspectives among retirement-age adults in Madrid, Spain (2022).”
Wesche, R., Toman, M., Grafsky, E. L., Gupta, S., & Tarantino, M. (2024) · The Journal of Sex Research · doi:10.1080/00224499.2024.2320260 · Cited by 4
“Consistent with the iterative nature of qualitative analysis, we created and sorted codes using an abductive technique (Thompson, 2022).”
Shahid, S., & Best, D. W. (2024) · Drugs Education Prevention and Policy · doi:10.1080/09687637.2024.2349077 · Cited by 4
“It incorporates many concepts from seminal works in thematic analysis, while maintaining the balance of theorizing with empirical data which is the core of abductive research (Thompson, 2022). nVIVO was used to analyze qualitative data.”
Fraboni, P. F. L., Sabatini, A., Marcone, M. R., & Temperini, V. (2024) · British Food Journal · doi:10.1108/bfj-03-2023-0208 · Cited by 4
Ottoni, C. A., Winters, M., & Sims‐Gould, J. (2024) · Wellbeing Space and Society · doi:10.1016/j.wss.2024.100223 · Cited by 4
Höper, J. (2024) · Journal of Science Teacher Education · doi:10.1080/1046560x.2024.2406661 · Cited by 4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development
Hill, I. R., Wishart, M., & Merrell, I. (2025) · Entrepreneurship and Regional Development · doi:10.1080/08985626.2025.2475888 · Cited by 4
“We adopted an abductive approach to thematic data analysis, which involved several steps (Sætre and Van de Ven 2021; Thompson 2022).”
Schmitt, T. M., Aminian-Biquet, J., Blinova, P., Jimenez, Y. G., SİNAV, L., Vašková, H., Dumont, A. S. L., Kiên, P. T., Mathur, V., Mwale, B., et al. (2025) · Sustainability Science · doi:10.1007/s11625-025-01693-9 · Cited by 4
“We used an abductive coding approach, which strikes a middle ground between inductive, exploratory research and deductive theory-driven coding (Coffey and Atkinson 1996; Thompson 2022).”
Hernández, R. A. S. (2025) · Urban Education · doi:10.1177/00420859251353774 · Cited by 4
“The development of the themes followed CRL principles focused on family engagement and the experiences from participants that were not captured by the guiding framework and that contributed to re fi ning existing theory (Thompson, 2022).”
Staff perspectives on key dimensions of institutional learning analytics implementation
Kaveri, A., Korpi, J., Silvola, A., & Muukkonen, H. (2025) · Education and Information Technologies · doi:10.1007/s10639-025-13790-4 · Cited by 5
“After the linear read-through, abductive analysis was chosen to analyze the data since it provided a theory-informed analysis framework, but also the flexibility to modify it according to our data (Thompson, 2022 ; Vila-Henninger et al., 2022).”
InfluentialPan, Q., & Xiao, W. (2023) · The Translator · doi:10.1080/13556509.2023.2275338 · Cited by 4
Kegelaers, J. J., Spolverato, L., Praet, L., Brandt, K. D., & Wylleman, P. (2023) · International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology · doi:10.1080/1612197x.2023.2295510 · Cited by 4
“Such parallel use of both inductive and deductive reasoning has been referred to as abductive thematic analysis (Thompson, 2022).”
Acculturation of Chinese international students in the US: Does sojourner status really matter?
Zeng, L. (2024) · International Migration · doi:10.1111/imig.13236 · Cited by 4
Wedege, P., Mæland, S., Divanoglou, A., & Abrahamsen, F. E. (2024) · Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences · doi:10.3389/fresc.2024.1285742 · Cited by 5
“In the analysis, we followed the eight steps outlined by Thompson (44): (1) PW transcribed all interviews verbatim, and FEA and PW familiarized themselves with the data through multiple transcript readings.”
Verbeke, K., Piasecki, J., Baeyens, D., Krawczyk, T., & Borry, P. (2024) · Accountability in Research · doi:10.1080/08989621.2024.2362777 · Cited by 4
“Interviews were transcribed ad verbatim by A.V. and analyzed in NVivo R 1.7.1. by K.V. based on a realist take on abductive thematic analysis as described by Thompson (2022).”
InfluentialLaskowski, N., Clarke, A. J., Patch, C., Pichini, A., Hill, M. K., Whyte, S., & Lewis, C. (2024) · Public Health Genomics · doi:10.1159/000542027 · Cited by 4
“The principles of abductive research were followed as outlined in Thompson [21].”
Moberg, J. (2024) · Child & Youth Services · doi:10.1080/0145935x.2024.2426120 · Cited by 4
“The material has been analyzed by using an abductive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2019, 2023; Thompson, 2022), meaning that data was initially inductively analyzed followed by a theoretical application where concepts from the ecological systems theory was of importance when interpreting…”
Understanding Older Adults’ Experiences with Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes: A Mixed Methods Study
Dahlke, S., Butler, J. I., Toubiana, M., Shrestha, S., Baskerville, K., Devkota, R., Hunter, K. F., Kalogirou, M. R., Law, J., & Scheuerman, M. (2024) · Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement · doi:10.1017/s0714980824000357 · Cited by 6
“Data analysis of interview data was conducted concurrently with data collection and involved an abductive approach to reflexive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2021; Joy, Braun, & Clarke, 2023; Thompson, 2022).”
Giesen, J., Berings, M. G. M. C., Bakker‐Jacobs, A., Vermeulen, H., Waal, G. H., & van Vught, A. (2024) · Journal of Advanced Nursing · doi:10.1111/jan.16679 · Cited by 4
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis
Buetow, S. (2025) · Qualitative Research in Psychology · doi:10.1080/14780887.2025.2462919 · Cited by 6
“Widely cited guidelines for conventional TA (Braun and Clarke 2006; Joffe 2012; Kiger and Varpio 2020; Nowell et al. 2017; Thomas 2006; Thompson 2022; Wærass 2022) underscore this observation.”
Mirhosseini, S., & Jiang, L. G. (2025) · Critical Inquiry in Language Studies · doi:10.1080/15427587.2025.2503710 · Cited by 4
“Interviews were transcribed and then analyzed through a process of ‘abductive thematic analysis’ (Thompson, 2022) combining ‘thematic ana-lysis’ (Braun & Clarke, 2006) and ‘phronetic iterative’ coding (Tracy, 2020).”
Arueyingho, O., O’Kane, A. A., Marshall, P., & Aprioku, J. S. (2025) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3710951 · Cited by 4
“Abductive thematic analysis permits the researcher to set parameters and boundaries based on the objectives of the study [238].”
Dsouza, M. P., Shetty, A., D’Souza, S. E., Buthello, E., & Gudi, N. (2025) · Sage Open · doi:10.1177/21582440251318806 · Cited by 4
“This study employed a thematic analysis using an abductive coding approach (Thompson, 2022).”
Ljungmann, C. K., Christensen, J. H., Klinker, C. D., & Pawlowski, C. S. (2025) · European Journal for Sport and Society · doi:10.1080/16138171.2025.2479985 · Cited by 4
Aleksanyan, J., Maria, Z., Renteria, D., Fawole, A., Jordan, A. E., Drury, V., Kawola, S., del Rosario, J., Lincourt, P., Morris, M., et al. (2025) · Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment · doi:10.1016/j.josat.2025.209704 · Cited by 3
Managing menopause transition in the workplace: The double‐edged sword of flexible work
Potočnik, K., Steffan, B., & Zheng, S. (2025) · Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1111/joop.70032 · Cited by 3
Taheri, B., Lee, L. W., & Thompson, J. (2025) · International Journal of Tourism Research · doi:10.1002/jtr.70048 · Cited by 3
Self-citationVisioning Schooling in 2050: Analyzing Pre-Service Teachers’ Futures Consciousness
Hyyppä, I., Södervik, I., Krzywacki, H., & Laherto, A. (2025) · Proceedings. · doi:10.22318/icls2025.791591 · Cited by 3
Keulemans, T., Depaepe, F., & Raes, A. (2025) · Learning and Instruction · doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102189 · Cited by 4
Owen, A. (2025) · Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine · doi:10.1177/13634593251377111 · Cited by 3
“Abductive analysis is a three-step process, listed in more detail below, and goes back and forth between data and outside theories to make inferences (Brinkmann, 2014; Tavory and Timmermans, 2014; Thompson, 2022).”
Resilience strategies in entrepreneurial SME networks: a multi-level framework
McGrath, H., Sabatini, A., Taheriruh, M., Parodi, E. B., Pagano, A., Hauke-Lopes, A., Perna, A., & O’Toole, T. (2026) · Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing · doi:10.1108/jbim-06-2025-0533 · Cited by 3
Preserving music reward in age-related hearing loss through training and adaptation
Gao, E., Thompson, E. C., Wang, C., Armache, M., Kim, J. S., Arar, C., Chasin, M., McRackan, T. R., & Chern, A. (2026) · BMC Geriatrics · doi:10.1186/s12877-026-07429-3 · Cited by 4
Bridging disciplinary aesthetics: when mathematics meets art through educational technology
Karavakou, M., Kynigos, C., & Sinclair, N. (2023) · Frontiers in Education · doi:10.3389/feduc.2023.1284718 · Cited by 3
Decarbonisation: A Case Study of Malaysia
Gunawan, J., Lee, J., Putri, A. N. A., & Tin, S. (2023) · Foresight-Russia · doi:10.17323/2500-2597.2023.4.32.44 · Cited by 3
Slack Use in Large-Scale Agile Organizations: ESN Tools as Catalysts for Alignment?
Stray, V. G., & Barbala, A. (2024) · Lecture notes in business information processing · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61154-4_2 · Cited by 3
Erskine, O. M., Lamm, A. J., Sanders, C. E., & Lamm, K. W. (2024) · Horticulturae · doi:10.3390/horticulturae10060601 · Cited by 3
“Similar research using DOI attributes in thematic analysis may benefit from using abductive analysis to find a middle ground between deductive and inductive analysis to address this limitation [47].”
Harkko, J., Nordquist, H., & Kouvonen, A. M. (2024) · Social Policy and Administration · doi:10.1111/spol.13056 · Cited by 3
Dass, M. A., & Kumar, M. P. M. P. (2024) · International Studies in Catholic Education · doi:10.1080/19422539.2024.2386236 · Cited by 3
“Finally, similar codes were grouped together and categorised thematically to draw out common themes that came up in our interviews (Braun and Clarke 2006; Thompson 2022).”
Radjai, L., & Hammond, C. D. (2024) · Journal of virtual exchange · doi:10.21827/jve.7.41033 · Cited by 3
Räihä, K., Asikainen, H., & Katajavuori, N. (2024) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100845 · Cited by 3
Hald, A. N., Bech, M., Ehlert, C., Enemark, U., Shaw, J., & Burau, V. (2025) · Journal of Interprofessional Care · doi:10.1080/13561820.2025.2452963 · Cited by 3
“The data analysis strategy was conducted through an iterative abductive thematic approach (Thompson, 2022).”
InfluentialHakkarainen, V., & Raymond, C. M. (2025) · Environmental Science & Policy · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104023 · Cited by 3
Gill, K.-A., Teimouri, N., Bogard, J., & Cullerton, K. B. (2025) · Global Food Security · doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100839 · Cited by 3
What's in a Lie? How Researchers Judge the Justifiability of Deception
Verbeke, K., Krawczyk, T., Baeyens, D., Piasecki, J., & Borry, P. (2025) · Ethics & Human Research · doi:10.1002/eahr.60003 · Cited by 3
Lam, H. Y., Jayasinghe, S. U., Hills, A. P., & Ahuja, K. (2025) · Journal of Transport & Health · doi:10.1016/j.jth.2025.102087 · Cited by 3
Stacey, S. K., Prins, K. M., Anderson, S. A., & Quartiroli, A. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0330219 · Cited by 3
“To analyze qualitative data, we employed abductive thematic analysis characterized by theoretical deduction and inductive features [14], which recursively influenced the construction of themes.”
Beyond Methods: A Model for Teaching Theory in Applied Anthropology
Hayes, L. A., & Jung, Y. (2023) · Annals of Anthropological Practice · doi:10.1111/napa.12194 · Cited by 3
Making space at the table: Engaging participation of people with dementia in community development
Phinney, A., Macnaughton, E., Wiersma, E. C., Sutherland, N., Marchese, C., Cochrane, D., & Monteiro, A. (2023) · International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · doi:10.1002/gps.5984 · Cited by 3
Mols, A., Campos, J. P., & Gonçalves, J. F. F. (2024) · Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1080/07370024.2024.2325340 · Cited by 4
“The analysis took an abductive approach (Thompson, 2022) that was not fully data-nor fully theory-driven.”
Managers’ sociocognitive conflicts in collaborative learning
Laajala, M., Hämäläinen, R., Lämsä, T., Riivari, E., & Lehesvuori, S. (2024) · Studies in Continuing Education · doi:10.1080/0158037x.2024.2388895 · Cited by 3
“…material in learning contexts; it allows for identifying, analysing, and reporting themes within data, enabling deeper exploration of learning environments from open-ended responses and transcriptions, offering interpretive flexibility that quantitative analysis may be missing (Thompson 2022).”
Unveiling the Depths: Unravelling Stakeholder Values in the Landscape of Bangkok’s Urban Waterways
Numsuk, W., & Dempsey, N. (2024) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su16167117 · Cited by 3
MUTLU, Ş., & KOŞAN, Y. (2024) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-024-06673-3 · Cited by 3
“We subjected the data we had collected to a thematic analysis, as this would allow us to pinpoint similarities, disparities, and correlations in the data set and then identify common themes in the data (Thompson, 2022).”
Baggen, Y., Tho, C. W. S., Gulikers, J. T. M., Tassone, V. C., & Wesselink, R. (2024) · Innovations in Education and Teaching International · doi:10.1080/14703297.2024.2417798 · Cited by 3
Precarious Employment, Pension Participation, and Retirement Deferment in China
Ma, X., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., & Wu, J. (2024) · China Perspectives · doi:10.4000/11y7k · Cited by 2
Casey, E. G., Kim, M., & Reid, A. D. (2024) · Environmental Education Research · doi:10.1080/13504622.2024.2418310 · Cited by 2
Redeveloping Expertise in the Transition From Coach to Coach Education Tutor
Stephens, D., Stodter, A., & Timmis, M. A. (2024) · International Sport Coaching Journal · doi:10.1123/iscj.2023-0060 · Cited by 2
General Practice Community Pharmacist Consultation Service: an exploratory patient survey
Gauly, J., Grimley, C. E., Dale, J. R., Gill, P. S., & Atherton, H. (2024) · BJGP Open · doi:10.3399/bjgpo.2024.0204 · Cited by 2
Breaking bad news: How frontline employees cope with bad news disclosure to customers
Delcourt, C., Gremler, D. D., & Greer, D. A. (2025) · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · doi:10.1007/s11747-024-01079-w · Cited by 4
“We analyzed the data in NVivo, using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) tailored for abductive research methods, as developed by Thompson (2022).”
Metadata
- Authors
- Thompson, J.
- Affiliations
- Edinburgh Napier University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Thompson, Jamie
- ORCID
- Thompson, Jamie
- Venue
- The Qualitative Report
- Publisher
- Nova Southeastern University
- Published
- 2022-05-20
- ISSN
- 1052-0147 (ISSN-L)
- 2160-3715
- OpenAlex
- W4280585239
- Semantic Scholar
- 2765f40bd6e8e0d8bc9c1eddbd129fba2be5cbad
- Cited by
- 493
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 131 · 2025: 174 · 2024: 124 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 6
- FWCI
- 195.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- The Qualitative Report (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sociology and Education Studies
- Keywords
- abductive research, thematic analysis, qualitative data analysis, scientific rigor, research methodology
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