| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Focus group method and methodology: current practice and recent debate | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2006 | 317 |
| 2 | A pluralist view of generalization in qualitative research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2009 | 209 |
| 3 | Beyond member-checking: a dialogic approach to the research interview | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2015 | 161 |
| 4 | Theory and methodology in researching emotions in education | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2007 | 151 |
| 5 | Photo-elicitation: reflexivity on method, analysis, and graphic portraits | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2015 | 115 |
| 6 | The issue of quality in qualitative research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2007 | 114 |
| 7 | Measuring service quality in higher education: three instruments compared | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2006 | 108 |
| 8 | Using social network methods to study school leadership | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2009 | 81 |
| 9 | Handling missing data: analysis of a challenging data set using multiple imputation | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2016 | 81 |
| 10 | Inside, outside, upside down: the fluidity of academic researcher ‘identity’ in working with/in school | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2011 | 80 |
| 11 | Towards a re-conceptualization of teachers' self-efficacy beliefs: tackling enduring problems with the quantitative research and moving on | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2014 | 78 |
| 12 | Research ethical guidelines and anonymity1 | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2005 | 71 |
| 13 | Anxiety in undergraduate research methods courses: its nature and implications | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2008 | 71 |
| 14 | An exploration of the use of eye‐gaze tracking to study problem‐solving on standardized science assessments | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2006 | 70 |
| 15 | Grasping at methodological understanding: a cautionary tale from insider research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 70 |
| 16 | The generative potential of mixed methods inquiry1 | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2005 | 69 |
| 17 | Ecological momentary assessment: a research method for studying the daily lives of teachers | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 66 |
| 18 | Using Toulmin’s Argument Pattern in the evaluation of argumentation in school science | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2008 | 63 |
| 19 | Using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate cross-cultural research: identifying and understanding non-invariance | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2017 | 63 |
| 20 | Key challenges of using video when investigating social practices in education: contextualization, magnification, and representation | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2017 | 63 |
| 21 | Using vignettes in educational research: a framework for vignette construction | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2020 | 63 |
| 22 | CHE Principles: facilitating authentic and dialogical semi-structured interviews in educational research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2019 | 59 |
| 23 | Educational research as a practical science | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2007 | 54 |
| 24 | From drawings to diagrams: maintaining researcher control during graphic elicitation in qualitative interviews | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2009 | 52 |
| 25 | Ethical research, academic freedom and the role of ethics committees and review procedures in educational research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 51 |
| 26 | Weaving an interpretivist stance throughout mixed methods research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2019 | 48 |
| 27 | Researching from within: external and internal ethical engagement | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2012 | 47 |
| 28 | On dodgy ground? Problematics and ethics in educational research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2006 | 46 |
| 29 | Progress in the past decade: an examination of the precision of cluster randomized trials funded by the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2016 | 46 |
| 30 | Reflections on the role of the ‘users’: challenges in a multi-disciplinary context of learner-centred design for children on the autism spectrum | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2014 | 45 |
| 31 | Methods that teach: developing pedagogic research methods, developing pedagogy | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2018 | 45 |
| 32 | Dealing with complexity: theory of change evaluation and the full service extended schools initiative | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 44 |
| 33 | Rethinking the empirical in higher education: post-qualitative inquiry as a less comfortable social science | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2017 | 43 |
| 34 | Using the value creation framework to capture knowledge co-creation and pathways to impact in a transnational community of practice in autism education | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2021 | 43 |
| 35 | Analysing children's drawings: applied imagination | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2012 | 41 |
| 36 | The school science attitude survey: a new instrument for measuring attitudes towards school science | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2016 | 41 |
| 37 | The use of CAQDAS in educational research: some advantages, limitations and potential risks | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2009 | 40 |
| 38 | The Framework for Participation: a research tool for exploring the relationship between achievement and inclusion in schools | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 40 |
| 39 | Research methods and data analysis procedures used by educational researchers | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2005 | 39 |
| 40 | Facilitating metacognitive talk: a research and learning tool | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2006 | 39 |
| 41 | The stimulated recall method and ICTs in research on the reasoning of teachers | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2010 | 38 |
| 42 | Exploring informed consent and dissent through children's participation in educational research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2014 | 38 |
| 43 | Who's afraid of sex at school? The politics of researching culture, religion and sexuality at school | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2014 | 35 |
| 44 | Teachers’ classroom‐based action research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2011 | 34 |
| 45 | Narrative inquiry and the problem of representation: ‘giving voice’, making meaning | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2017 | 33 |
| 46 | The method of empathy-based stories | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2019 | 33 |
| 47 | Interpretation of standards with Bloom’s revised taxonomy: a comparison of teachers and assessment experts | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2009 | 32 |
| 48 | An analytical approach to study educational inequalities: 10 hypothesis tests in PIRLS 2006 | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2012 | 32 |
| 49 | Digital stories as a method for evidence-based practice and knowledge co-creation in technology-enhanced learning for children with autism | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2015 | 32 |
| 50 | Scope and continuum of participatory research | International Journal of Research and Method in Education | 2022 | 32 |
