| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Whatever happened to qualitative description? | Research in Nursing and Health | 2000 | 7,865 |
| 2 | What's in a name? Qualitative description revisited | Research in Nursing and Health | 2010 | 2,838 |
| 3 | Sample size in qualitative research | Research in Nursing and Health | 1995 | 2,648 |
| 4 | Quality and safety education for nurses | Nursing Outlook | 2007 | 872 |
| 5 | Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling, Data Collection, and Analysis Techniques in Mixed-Method Studies | Research in Nursing and Health | 2000 | 823 |
| 6 | Rigor or rigor mortis | Advances in Nursing Science | 1993 | 801 |
| 7 | Qualitative metasynthesis: Issues and techniques | Research in Nursing and Health | 1997 | 784 |
| 8 | Qualitative analysis: What it is and how to begin | Research in Nursing and Health | 1995 | 747 |
| 9 | Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda | Qualitative Health Research | 2004 | 543 |
| 10 | Real qualitative researchers do not count: The use of numbers in qualitative research | Research in Nursing and Health | 2001 | 507 |
| 11 | On Quantitizing | Journal of Mixed Methods Research | 2009 | 435 |
| 12 | Superwoman Schema: African American Women’s Views on Stress, Strength, and Health | Qualitative Health Research | 2010 | 431 |
| 13 | Parental Stressor Scale | Nursing Research | 1993 | 372 |
| 14 | AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAFETY CLIMATE AND MEDICATION ERRORS AS WELL AS OTHER NURSE AND PATIENT OUTCOMES | Personnel Psychology | 2006 | 330 |
| 15 | Finding the Findings in Qualitative Studies | Journal of Nursing Scholarship | 2002 | 317 |
| 16 | Beyond “implementation strategies”: classifying the full range of strategies used in implementation science and practice | Implementation Science | 2017 | 317 |
| 17 | HIV Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: A Systematic Review | AIDS and Behavior | 2011 | 308 |
| 18 | Energy Costs of Physical Activities in Children and Adolescents | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2005 | 295 |
| 19 | Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings | Qualitative Health Research | 2012 | 279 |
| 20 | Depressive Symptoms in Mothers of Prematurely Born Infants | Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics | 2007 | 278 |
| 21 | The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: Construction, Validation, And Clinical Testing | Nursing Research | 1996 | 274 |
| 22 | Criteria for selecting implementation science theories and frameworks: results from an international survey | Implementation Science | 2017 | 271 |
| 23 | Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Mothers of Premature Infants | JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing | 2003 | 268 |
| 24 | Impact of weight stigma on physiological and psychological health outcomes for overweight and obese adults: A systematic review | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2018 | 263 |
| 25 | The role of responsive feeding in overweight during infancy and toddlerhood: a systematic review | International Journal of Obesity | 2011 | 259 |
| 26 | Composite Variables | Nursing Research | 2013 | 248 |
| 27 | Patient reminder and recall systems to improve immunization rates | The Cochrane Library | 2005 | 244 |
| 28 | A Randomized Trial of an Intervention to Improve Self-Care Behaviors of African-American Women With Type 2 Diabetes: Impact on physical activity | Diabetes Care | 2002 | 228 |
| 29 | A synthesis technique for grounded theory data analysis | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2001 | 223 |
| 30 | Cancer‐related fatigue | Cancer | 2012 | 219 |
| 31 | Smoking initiation in youth | Journal of Adolescent Health | 1998 | 217 |
| 32 | Effects of antenatal diet and physical activity on maternal and fetal outcomes: individual patient data meta-analysis and health economic evaluation | Health Technology Assessment | 2017 | 214 |
| 33 | Focus on qualitative methods. The use of quotes in qualitative research | Research in Nursing and Health | 1994 | 211 |
| 34 | Stigma in HIV‐Positive Women | Journal of Nursing Scholarship | 2004 | 210 |
| 35 | Focus on qualitative methods: Interviewing children | Research in Nursing and Health | 1999 | 205 |
| 36 | The Challenges of Searching for and Retrieving Qualitative Studies | Western Journal of Nursing Research | 2003 | 199 |
| 37 | Helping patients with localized prostate carcinoma manage uncertainty and treatment side effects | Cancer | 2002 | 197 |
| 38 | Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates | The Cochrane Library | 2018 | 197 |
| 39 | Creating Metasummaries of Qualitative Findings | Nursing Research | 2003 | 195 |
| 40 | Bladder training for urinary incontinence in adults | The Cochrane Library | 2004 | 194 |
| 41 | Benefits from an uncertainty management intervention for African-American and Caucasian older long-term breast cancer survivors | Psycho-Oncology | 2005 | 191 |
| 42 | Developing a Quality of Cancer Survivorship Care Framework: Implications for Clinical Care, Research, and Policy | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2019 | 190 |
| 43 | Global Use of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index | Nursing Research | 2011 | 188 |
| 44 | Reasons For Physicians Not Adopting Clinical Decision Support Systems: Critical Analysis | JMIR Medical Informatics | 2018 | 183 |
| 45 | Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry | Qualitative Health Research | 2002 | 161 |
| 46 | Incontinence in the frail elderly: Report from the 4th international consultation on incontinence | Neurourology and Urodynamics | 2010 | 155 |
| 47 | Allostasis and allostatic load: expanding the discourse on stress and cardiovascular disease | Journal of Clinical Nursing | 2008 | 154 |
| 48 | Race and gender matter: A multidimensional approach to conceptualizing and measuring stress in African American women. | Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology | 2008 | 151 |
| 49 | BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS OF RESEARCH UTILIZATION | Nursing Clinics of North America | 1995 | 151 |
| 50 | Disparities in Pain Management Between Cognitively Intact and Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2008 | 148 |
