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Thomas A. Schwandt publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Schwandt sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 108 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Thomas A. Schwandt D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Schwandt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Thomas A. Schwandt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

Their recent scholarly work includes the paper titled Competencies for Evaluation as a Civic Science, published in 2023 in the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation.

  • Competencies for Evaluation as a Civic Science (2023), Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation

Thomas A. Schwandt has published in the following venue:

  • Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (1 publication)

They have authored a book titled Evaluation Foundations Revisited, published in 2020 by Stanford University Press eBooks.

Their main research fields include Decision Sciences and Social Sciences, each with two publications.

  • Decision Sciences (2 publications)
  • Social Sciences (2 publications)

Subfields of study contributed to are:

  • Management Science and Operations Research (2 publications)
  • General Social Sciences (1 publication)
  • Public Administration (1 publication)

The main topics of their work focus on:

  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 publications)
  • Social Science and Policy Research (2 publications)
  • Public Policy and Administration Research (2 publications)

Thomas A. Schwandt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Constructivist, interpretivist approaches to human inquiry.

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Three epistemological stances for qualitative inquiry: Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructionism

    Thomas A Schwandt

  • Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Dictionary of qualitative inquiry

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Judging interpretations: But is it rigorous? trustworthiness and authenticity in naturalistic evaluation

    Thomas A. Schwandt;Yvonna S. Lincoln;Egon G. Guba

  • Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Farewell to Criteriology

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Linking auditing and metaevaluation : enhancing quality in applied research

    Thomas A. Schwandt;Edward Scott Halpern

  • Qualitative data analysis: A sourcebook of new methods: by Mathew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1984. 263 pages

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Evaluation Practice Reconsidered

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • On understanding understanding

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • The Centrality of Practice to Evaluation

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • On Discerning Quality in Evaluation

    Robert E. Stake;Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy

    Kenneth Prewitt;Thomas A. Schwandt;Miron L. Straf

  • `Back to the Rough Ground!' Beyond Theory to Practice in Evaluation

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • A Diagnostic Reading of Scientifically Based Research for Education.

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Recapturing Moral Discourse in Evaluation

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • On modeling our understanding of the practice fields

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Educating for intelligent belief in evaluation

    Thomas A. Schwandt

  • Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice

    Thomas A Schwandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer C. Greene
Jennifer C. Greene University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tineke A. Abma
Tineke A. Abma Leiden University
Mark W. Lipsey
Mark W. Lipsey Vanderbilt University
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Yvonna S. Lincoln Texas A&M University
Bridget Somekh
Bridget Somekh Manchester Metropolitan University

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