In This Issue: Transformative and Participatory Methods, Integration Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis, and Network Analysis of Qualitative Data

This July 2022 issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) includes an editorial, four articles, a commentary, and three media reviews. In the editorial, Poth et al. (2022) have collected discussions about mixed methods designs in a virtual special issue (VSI) based on selected articles published in JMMR. They included 13 readings, 10 empirical and methodological articles as well as three editorials that were published between 2008 and June, 2022. They conclude three points from analysis of this collection, a trend toward greater engagement with stakeholders in mixed methods research designs, a need for authors to be consistent and comprehensively use their design terminology throughout all sections of papers, and authentic or detailed reporting to facilitate the understanding of readers about the procedures employed. VSIs are prepared by chief or associate editors with purpose of identifying from previously articles published in JMMR perspectives on key contributions of the articles relative to the chosen theme (Fetters &Molina-Azorı́n, 2020). Previous VSIs have addressed timely topics of discussion in the field such as paradigms in mixed methods research (Molina-Azorin & Fetters, 2020), integration in mixed methods research (Guetterman et al., 2020), and quality in mixed methods research (Fàbregues et al., 2021). Additionally, Shannon-Baker (2022) examined publications from the field of education with a focus on designs, integration, and visual displays. VSI editorials are available open access under the collections link on the JMMR homepage. In the first article in this issue, Dion et al. (2022) with affiliations in health sciences have introduced Weight of Evidence as a transformative procedure to contextualize evidence in the understanding of relevant stakeholders. Through this procedure, stakeholders can interpret, expand upon, and prioritize evidence from synthesis, and inform service improvements and program evaluation that can refine syntheses. The authors describe the philosophical orientations