📚 Research Design

Books with research design on their catalogue record, first published between 1935 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject research design in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,844 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The design of experiments	Ronald Aylmer Fisher	1935	31
	Practical Research	Paul D. Leedy	1974	24
	Methods in behavioral research	Paul C. Cozby	1977	20
	The practice of social research	Earl R. Babbie	1975	19
	Understanding Research Methods	Mildred L. Patten	1996	19
	Clinical trials	Steven Piantadosi	1997	15
	Foundations of nursing research	Rose Marie Nieswiadomy	1987	14
	Proposing Empirical Research	Mildred L. Patten	1999	14
	Design and analysis of experiments	Douglas C. Montgomery	1976	13
	Interpretive description	Sally E. Thorne	2008	13
	Doing your research project	Judith Bell	1986	12
	The research project	Ralph Berry	2000	12
	The research act	Norman K. Denzin	1970	11
	Action Research	Ernest T. Stringer	1996	11
	Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design	John W. Creswell	1997	11
	Succeeding in Literature Reviews and Research Project Plans for Nursing Students	G. R. Williamson	2014	11
	Epidemiology kept simple	B. Burt Gerstman	1998	10
	Designing and conducting mixed methods research	John W. Creswell	2006	10
	A primer in theory construction	Paul Davidson Reynolds	1971	9
	Experimental methodology	Larry B. Christensen	1977	9
	Evaluating information	Jeffrey Katzer	1978	9
	Research methods in psychology	John J. Shaughnessy	1985	9
	Research methods in psychology	David G. Elmes	1985	9
	How to think straight about psychology	Keith E. Stanovich	1985	9
	Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology	Harry T. Reis	2000	9
	Theories of scientific method	Robert Nola	2007	9
	Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research	Donald Thomas Campbell	1966	8
	Research design in clinical psychology	Alan E. Kazdin	1980	8
	The research process in nursing	Desmond Cormack	1996	8
	The SAGE dictionary of qualitative inquiry	Thomas A. Schwandt	2007	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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