Journal of Mixed Methods Research

The Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking and seminal work in the field of mixed methods research. Of primary importance is building an international and multidisciplinary community of mixed methods researchers. The journal's scope includes developing and exploring the dimensions of integration in mixed methods research, generating a global terminology and nomenclature for mixed methods research, delineating where mixed methods research may be used most effectively, creating the paradigmatic and philosophical foundations for mixed methods research, illuminating design and procedure issues, and determining the logistics of conducting mixed methods research. The journal features articles from a wide variety of international perspectives, including academics and practitioners from psychology, sociology, education, evaluation, health sciences, geography, communication, management, family studies, marketing, social work, and other related disciplines across the social, behavioral, health, arts and human sciences.

Submission types:

• Original mixed methods research manuscripts in the social, behavioral, health, arts and human sciences that:
• identify and support with a substantive literature review a unique contribution to mixed methods research;
• fit the definition of mixed methods research by collecting and analyzing data, integrating the findings, and drawing inferences using both qualitative and quantitative approaches or methods;
• provide a design figure of the mixed methods procedures;
• explicitly integrate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the study;
• delineate how the study makes a contribution to a substantive area in the scholar’s field of inquiry; and
• discuss explicitly how the research makes a novel contribution to literature on mixed methods research.

Original research manuscripts that do not articulate a specific methodological purpose, or fail to show integration and discuss a novel contribution to the mixed methods literature will be returned to the author(s).

• Methodological / theoretical research manuscripts that advance knowledge about mixed methods research, such as:
• Types of research/evaluation questions
• Types of designs
• Sampling and/or measurement procedures
• Approaches to data analysis and drawing metainferences
• Validity and research integrity
• Software applications
• Paradigm stance
• Writing approaches
• The value and use of mixed methods research
• Theoretical lenses
• Cultural issues
• Ethical issues
• Quality in mixed methods research
• Prevalence studies (see below)

Methodological/theoretical manuscripts that do not articulate a specific methodological purpose, or fail to review relevant literature and discuss a novel contribution to the mixed methods literature will be returned to the author(s).

• Mixed methods research prevalence manuscripts that are a type of methodological manuscript which systematically examines the adoption and use of mixed methods research and:
• specify a methodological aim and define how the chosen disciplinary focus addresses that aim;
• conduct a rigorous literature review to identify the MMR literature relevant to the MMR prevalence study
• present findings in a format that illustrates the methodological issues;
• interpret the value of the prevalence study in the field of the authors and reflect about how it advances understanding about MMR methodology.

• Research notes manuscripts developed with a focus on a specific concept of methodological innovation relevant to mixed methods research that:
• follow the structure of an original mixed methods research or methodological/theoretical paper;
• articulate a methodological gap, need or challenge faced in using mixed methods research;
• review succinctly literature relevant to the methodological gap, need or challenge;
• provide a brief review of the substantive topic content sufficiently to illustrate the methodological context; and
• illustrate the innovation through examples and rhetoric.

Research notes manuscripts that do not articulate a specific methodological purpose, or fail to review relevant literature and discuss a novel contribution to the mixed methods literature will be returned to the author(s).

• Commentaries authored in response to recently published articles in the JMMR that provide an alternative interpretation, application, or expansion of ideas raised previously in an original article

• Media reviews that critically evaluate the content, quality, and value of textbooks, software, or other media, such as websites, companion material, and video series that are of interest to mixed methods researchers

• Special issues that comprise a group of articles focused on a specific topic about mixed methods research that are typically led and managed by one or more guest editors in consultation with the editors

• Virtual Special Issues­­­­ that are a group of related and previously published JMMR articles and editorials that have been assembled and listed online together about a particular theme of relevance to mixed methods research, e.g., the inaugural virtual special issue on paradigms.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication ­­Ethics (COPE).