Metasynthesis in communication research: synthesizing the past to aid the future

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Notes

1 Some forum articles were collapsed, whereas others were individual contributions; therefore, the forum submissions most likely include a greater percentage (which may skew totals slightly). The findings highlighted 45.1% quantitative, 25% forum, 14.9% qualitative, 9.4% editor’s note, 2.3% rhetorical/critical, 1.6% mixed methods, 1% metareview, 0.3% meta-analysis, and 0.3% metasynthesis.