Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Deviant Behavior
For a Special Issue on
Qualitative Meta-synthesis to Study Social Deviance
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Heith Copes,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
jhcopes@uab.edu
Andy Hochstetler,
Iowa State University
hochstet@iastate.edu
Qualitative Meta-synthesis to Study Social Deviance
Qualitative meta-synthesis (QMS) is a comprehensive, generic term that represents a collection of approaches to reviewing, translating, and synthesizing qualitative research. Although popular in other disciplines, those who study deviant behavior seldom use it.
For this special issue of Deviant Behavior, we solicit manuscripts that use any of a variety of qualitative, meta-syntheses strategies to address substantive topics relating to all aspects of social deviance or that make contributions to how to engage in QMS. We are interested in contributions that use meta-ethnography, qualitative research synthesis, qualitative meta-synthesis, qualitative meta-analysis or similar approaches.
Submission Instructions
Expression of interest for submissions should be sent to jhcopes@uab.edu
It should include:
- A tentative title and a 1-page max, single spaced, description of the topic and approach
- Affiliation and contact information for all authors.
- A statement of whether the article is methodological or empirical in nature (with analyses of bodies of literature using meta-synthesis indicated as empirical).
- If empirical: A description of the scope of the review, the specific method used, and the expected contribution to the content area.
- If methodological: A description of the form of the methodological contribution, a description of any content area/examples, the methodological contribution of the paper.
Final submission instructions:
The special issue editors will review the expressions of interest and invite authors of a selection of these to submit a full manuscript. The full manuscripts will go through a peer-review process, and decisions editors will make decisions on the final content of the special issue accordingly.
If you are invited to submit a full manuscript, please follow the standard author guidelines of Deviant Behavior. Manuscripts should be submitted via the online manuscript portal by September 1st, 2025. Please select that the manuscript is intended for this special issue on qualitative meta-analyses in the process of submitting your manuscript.