Everything about Focus

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FocusA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Lignocellulosic biomass from agricultural waste to the circular economy: a review with focus on biofuels, biocomposites and bioplasticsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech EventThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groupsCited 39,117 times
5. Go sideways: NeoA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ExtraA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups

  A. Tong, P. Sainsbury, J. Craig · 2007 · International Journal for Quality in Health Care · 39,117 citations

• A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places.

  Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno, Carl A. Kallgren · 1990 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 4,896 citations

• Qualitative Research: Introducing focus groups

  Jenny Kitzinger · 1995 · BMJ · 4,653 citations

• Structural Changes Accompanying Intramolecular Electron Transfer: Focus on Twisted Intramolecular Charge-Transfer States and Structures

  Zbigniew R. Grabowski, Krystyna Rotkiewicz, Wolfgang Rettig · 2003 · Chemical Reviews · 3,699 citations

• Focus on Formative Feedback

  Valerie J. Shute · 2008 · Review of Educational Research · 3,420 citations

• An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies

  Mike W Peng, Denis Y L Wang, Yi Jiang · 2008 · Journal of International Business Studies · 2,735 citations

• The methodology of Focus Groups: the importance of interaction between research participants

  Jenny Kitzinger · 1994 · Sociology of Health & Illness · 2,467 citations

• Focus Groups

  David L. Morgan · 1996 · Annual Review of Sociology · 2,257 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Lignocellulosic biomass from agricultural waste to the circular economy: a review with focus on biofuels, biocomposites and bioplastics

  Muhammad Mujtaba, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto, Mahyar Fazeli · 2023 · Journal of Cleaner Production · 1,205 citations

• Large language models in education: A focus on the complementary relationship between human teachers and ChatGPT

  Jaeho Jeon, Seongyong Lee · 2023 · Education and Information Technologies · 647 citations

• Long COVID: post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 with a cardiovascular focus

  Betty Raman, David A. Bluemke, Thomas F. Lüscher · 2022 · European Heart Journal · 582 citations

• ROS-triggered endothelial cell death mechanisms: Focus on pyroptosis, parthanatos, and ferroptosis

  Dongdong Zheng, Jia Liu, Hulin Piao · 2022 · Frontiers in Immunology · 573 citations

• Progress in Alternative Strategies to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: Focus on Antibiotics

  Jayaseelan Murugaiyan, P. Anand Kumar, G. Srinivasa Rao · 2022 · Antibiotics · 552 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech EventStanton Wortham, Angela Reyes · 2014
• Focus groupsJoseph D. Langford, Deana McDonagh · 2002
• 📕Focus GroupsGeorge Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis · 2013
• The handbook for focus group researchThomas L. Greenbaum · 1993
• Breaking BoundariesSteven Dedalus Burch · 2013
• Focus group practiceClaudia Puchta · 2004
• Shifting the focusDaniel Wedgwood · 2005
• Developing Focus Group ResearchRosaline S. Barbour, Jenny Kitzinger · 1998

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