In This Issue: Pacific Worldviews to Frame Mixed Methods Research, Advances in Integration, and a Novel Venn Diagram Joint Display

Abstract

The calendar turns as humankind begins the year 2022. Until the identification of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, it seemed some semblance of order in the world had begun emerging. The COVID-19 virus continues to mutate and wreak terror across the globe. The world continues to be socially distanced and politically divided along many lines. But within this context, mixed methods researchers continue to innovate procedures for conducting mixed methods research in the quest to address social challenges. This issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) features multiple breakthroughs for mixed methods research methodology. This issue includes an editorial, three methodological/theoretical articles, four empirical mixed methods methodological articles, and an erratum. In the accompanying editorial, we (Molina-Azorin & Fetters, 2022) provide an estimate of the number of books published that focus on mixed methods research. We note dramatic growth in the sheer number of books in the past three decades as well as the diversity of the books featuring mixed methods research.We identified more than 300 book titles and more than 80% of these were published since 2010. This milestone extends discussion in our last editorial signifying evidence for maturation of the field of mixed methods research in which we examined guidance for using mixed methods research by major public and private organizations globally (Fetters & MolinaAzorin, 2021a). Regarding this issues’ original contributions, two articles, both from New Zealand (Martel et al., 2022; Goodyear-Smith & Ofanoa, 2022) represent groundbreaking contributions to the challenge posed in our previous editorial calling for authors to share worldviews and indigenous philosophies supportive of mixed methods research (Fetters &Molina-Azorin, 2019). Together, these two articles