{"id":"W4412152791","doi":"10.1007/s10664-025-10629-x","title":"Guiding principles for mixed methods research in software engineering","year":2025,"lang":"en","type":"article","venue":"Empirical Software Engineering","topic":"Software Engineering Techniques and Practices","field":"Computer Science","cited_by":10,"is_retracted":false,"has_abstract":true,"ca_institutions":"University of Victoria","funders":"Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Monash University; University of Victoria","keywords":"Computer science; Software engineering; Systems engineering; Engineering","routes":{"ca_aff":true,"ca_fund":true,"ca_venue":false,"about_ca":false,"invisible_to_affiliation_only":false},"retraction":null,"screen":null,"direct_labels":[],"prediction":{"model_version":"codex-gemma-dda1882f352a","candidate_categories":["metaresearch","metaepi_narrow"],"consensus_categories":[],"category_scores_codex":[0.004388855,0.0004093858,0.0005180362,0.001247421,0.0001810296,0.0003340724,0.001614281,0.0003250174,0.000005514597],"category_scores_gemma":[0.01659394,0.000436645,0.0001918947,0.002744485,0.00002786527,0.0006871892,0.0009113242,0.0007438111,0.000007123912],"about_ca_system_candidate":false,"about_ca_system_consensus":false,"about_ca_system_score_codex":0.0004384715,"about_ca_system_score_gemma":0.0001657292,"about_ca_topic_candidate":false,"about_ca_topic_consensus":false,"about_ca_topic_score_codex":0.00002884998,"about_ca_topic_score_gemma":0.000003064752,"domain_scores_codex":[0.9966766,0.0001612313,0.0007142025,0.0008900531,0.0004304021,0.001127463],"domain_scores_gemma":[0.9878512,0.01070675,0.00007429941,0.000954643,0.0002189759,0.0001941484],"domain_codex":null,"domain_gemma":null,"domain_candidate":null,"domain_consensus":null,"study_design_codex":"simulation_or_modeling","study_design_gemma":"not_applicable","study_design_scores_codex":[0.00009240826,0.0005159277,0.07529929,0.003670951,0.0004224852,0.0002159841,0.001719288,0.5760681,0.00311663,0.08941785,0.01793153,0.2315295],"study_design_scores_gemma":[0.0007290631,0.0001551703,0.02609437,0.0009657909,0.00002106993,0.00002508367,0.00002141285,0.4245985,0.01107703,0.002568739,0.5326872,0.001056564],"study_design_candidate":"simulation_or_modeling","study_design_consensus":null,"genre_codex":"methods","genre_gemma":"methods","genre_scores_codex":[0.007192907,0.001326473,0.9857756,0.0006875928,0.001400139,0.0006071574,0.000004584833,0.002972488,0.0000330599],"genre_scores_gemma":[0.03930541,0.00004053161,0.9596441,0.0001059593,0.0001494885,0.0005472805,0.000006597518,0.00006538838,0.000135274],"genre_candidate":"methods","genre_consensus":"methods","teacher_disagreement_score":0.5147557,"threshold_uncertainty_score":0.9998085,"prediction_status":"machine_predicted_unvalidated"},"machine_scores":{"provisional":true,"baseline":true,"maturity_gate_passed":false,"score_opus":0.1555823405628206,"score_gpt":0.4433046685082936,"score_spread":0.2877223279454731,"validation_status":"score_only:v0-immature-baseline","note":"Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed). Scores rank; they never assert a category."}}