2026 Thomas A. Schwandt: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	34	6805	6323	3303	3013	108	28435

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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28435

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

28435

World Ranking

6805

National Ranking

3303

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

7181
Citations
Three epistemological stances for qualitative inquiry: Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructionism

Thomas A Schwandt

5568
Citations
Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms

Thomas A. Schwandt

3179
Citations
The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry

Thomas A. Schwandt

1756
Citations
Dictionary of qualitative inquiry

Thomas A. Schwandt

1479
Citations
Judging interpretations: But is it rigorous? trustworthiness and authenticity in naturalistic evaluation

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

1421
Citations
Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook

Thomas A. Schwandt

976
Citations
Farewell to Criteriology

Thomas A. Schwandt

580
Citations
Linking auditing and metaevaluation : enhancing quality in applied research

Thomas A. Schwandt;Edward Scott Halpern

426
Citations
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

423
Citations
Evaluation Practice Reconsidered

Thomas A. Schwandt

335
Citations
On understanding understanding

Thomas A. Schwandt

319
Citations
Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics

Thomas A. Schwandt

213
Citations
The Centrality of Practice to Evaluation

Thomas A. Schwandt

210
Citations
On Discerning Quality in Evaluation

Robert E. Stake;Thomas A. Schwandt

189
Citations
Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy

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

175
Citations
`Back to the Rough Ground!' Beyond Theory to Practice in Evaluation

Thomas A. Schwandt

148
Citations
A Diagnostic Reading of Scientifically Based Research for Education.

Thomas A. Schwandt

91
Citations
Recapturing Moral Discourse in Evaluation

Thomas A. Schwandt

85
Citations
On modeling our understanding of the practice fields

Thomas A. Schwandt

82
Citations
Educating for intelligent belief in evaluation

Thomas A. Schwandt

71
Citations
Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice

Thomas A Schwandt

46
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer C. Greene University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tineke A. Abma Leiden University

Mark W. Lipsey Vanderbilt University

Yvonna S. Lincoln Texas A&M University

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