LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis: Implementation and Evaluation of an Automated Thematic Coding Pipeline

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This article introduces a study on automated qualitative analysis using large language models. It analyzes reflective texts from 276 participants about digital distraction through a three-stage coding pipeline (open coding, theme generation, deductive coding) and compares the performance of different models such as Claude, GPT, and Qwen.