Recently at our yearly regional nursing research society conference, a small group
of us at the qualitative research interest group discussed a persistent problem we
encounter when conducting peer reviews for academic journals and/or when perusing
published empirical literature. The phenomenon we have come upon is qualitative salami
slicing, a technique where a researcher presents partial findings from one qualitative
study in multiple papers rather than presenting all the themes as a whole. This results
in publication findings that lack the comprehensive participants' voice and thus the
whole meaning of the results (
Happell, 2016
;
Janghorban and Azarkish, 2019
). In addition, salami publication not only skews the scientific database but also
creates misperceptions among readers that each segment of the slice was derived from
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