Google Scholar listed it as the second most cited methodological work, qualitative or quantitative, over a 20-year period[4] Yin was born and grew up in New York City as the son of Yin Huo-Chin (应和春; Yīng Héchūn) and How Loo Yuin (夏璐; Xià Lù).
[1]: 1, 中文版前言 Yin obtained his BA in history, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1962, and successfully pursued his graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences in 1970.
[5] While at graduate school, Yin published his first articles on face recognition, in the field of experimental psychology and neuroscience.
An exemplary example of a case study, relying on both qualitative and quantitative methods, covered organizational innovations in public services.
[7] During these years, the text has been translated into eight languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Romanian, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese.