Sampling in Qualitative Research: Insights from an Overview of the Methods Literature

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‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size (2021, background): “…it takes for an event to occur’ and how often a participant should be contacted to understand the changes undergone, thus emphasising engagement with respondents over an extended duration of time, rather than on the basis of saturation alone (Cohen, 2000 as cited in Gentles et al., 2015, p. 56).”
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (2020, background): “Different qualitative research traditions (e.g. grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography) talk about this “selection” in significantly different ways (Gentles et al. 2015).”