Table AII

Relevance and quality criteria

CriteriaQuestions
ContributionIs the article novel and original? Are the presented results of significant importance and impact to advancement in the field of research?
Construct validityDid the researchers put the construct they intended to study within a semantic net? Did they identify correct operational measures for the construct?
TransparencyDoes the article report sufficient information in methodological choices for the study to be replicated?
Data qualityDid they researchers explore different sources of knowledge? Does data strongly support arguments?
TheorizingDo researchers make explicit the process by which they move from data to explanation/understanding and theory building? Is the conclusion logically supported by the obtained results?
ConfirmabilityDid the researchers ground their conclusions in data by showing where the data came from and how they were transformed into findings?
GeneralizabilityIs the attitude to the generalization in line with researcher’s philosophical stances? If researchers claim generalizability, do these follow logically and/or theoretically from the data?
TransferabilityDoes the study report high contextualization? Is the context integrated into the explanation?

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