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Johnson, R.B., & Onwuegbuzie, A.J. (2004). Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose time has come. Educational Researcher, 33(7), 14-26.

Argues for mixed methods as a third major methodological approach (adding to quantitative and qualitative methodologies). Its basis in pragmatism is well described.