As integration in mixed methods studies is of great interest, we reviewed published articles between 2007 and 2019 in two major journals of mixed methods research to identify the integration challenges mixed methods researchers experienced. This study contributes to mixed methods by summarizing the reported challenges in empirical mixed methods articles based on the concept of integration. We found mixed methods users’ experienced uncertainty during integration due to lack of guidance and confidence. We advocate that researchers should be proactive in expounding methodological challenges that they confronted in practice and report what they did, how they did it, and why they did it in such ways to approach full integration. By doing this, researchers would make valuable contributions to this methodology’s development.

由于混合方法研究中的集成引起了极大兴趣，我们在2007年至2019年之间的两本主要的混合方法研究期刊中对已发表的文章进行了综述，以确定混合方法研究人员所经历的集成挑战。本研究通过总结基于集成概念的经验混合方法文章中所报告的挑战，为混合方法做出了贡献。我们发现，由于缺乏指导和信心，混合方法用户在集成过程中遇到了不确定性。我们主张研究人员应积极主动地阐明他们在实践中面临的方法论挑战，并报告他们做了什么，如何做以及为什么要以这种方式实现完全整合。通过这样做，研究人员将为这种方法的发展做出宝贵的贡献。