Matt Ege, Texas A&M University

Kim Westermann, California Polytechnic University

Mike Wilkins, University of Kansas

In recent years, many researchers have begun broadening their methodological expertise and/or collaborating with researchers with different methodological expertise. In response, AJPT is issuing a Call for Mixed Methods Papers. The purpose of the Call is to provide a forum for research that blends and draws inferences from different methodological approaches.

Studies should use at least two different research methods to gain a more comprehensive answer to the research question(s) being investigated than can be achieved by a single method alone. Studies should give relatively equal weighting to a discussion of the research design choices for each method, and analyses from each method should make significant contributions to the paper. Papers that only present descriptive statistics from a survey or descriptive quotes from a few interviews that are then used to motivate archival analyses would not be considered mixed methods papers under this Call.

Studies using method(s) incorporating human participants must obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.

Papers will be published in a Special Section as they are accepted, coordinating the timing of acceptances and space availability in individual journal issues.

Potential topics

• Studies using at least two different research methods (e.g., archival, analytical, experimental, interviews, surveys, other) to gain comprehensive answers to research questions
• Research that blends and draws inferences from different methodological approaches
• Studies giving relatively equal weighting to discussion of research design choices for each method
• Analyses from each method making significant contributions to the paper

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Deadline for submissions