Qualitative Inquiry

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Inquiry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter80
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health51
“Don’t I Have a Say?”: A Critical Autoethnography on Choice and Essentiality-of-Being51
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter44
Navel-Gazing Breaks the Heart Open: Autoethnography as Love-in-Action35
Autoethnography: An (Incomplete) Abecedarian Assemblage31
Between the Field and Elsewhere: Using Dialogic Collaborative Autoethnography in Ethnographic Restudies31
Homecoming With Culturally Situated Philosophies of Being in Qualitative Inquiry23
‘A ticket to a very different show’: Poetic Ethnodrama Through the Eyes of Young Elite Gymnasts21
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies20
The Insider’s Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research20
Developing Methodologies for Co-Production of Knowledge: Data Production and Analysis in Community-Based Research Partnerships18
Keeping the Conversation Going: Rendering Each Other Capable While Creating Zines18
Learning From the Mess: What Happens in Social Media Elicitation Interviews17
Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England17
The Emotional Burden of Studying White Emotionalities: My Kuwento , My Testimony16
Romance, Relationships, and Rights: Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas in a Research-Based Theater Project With Self-Advocate Co-Creators and Actors16
Three Refrains: Jumps in the Assemblage16
Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry15
Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Method Extended: Care Work Between Abstract Rules and Situated Practice15
The Persistence of Life and Play in በርበረ [ber-be-re] Transcripts15
The Seven Ages of an Academic Man? (First)14
New Possibilities for Spatial Research: Re-Animating the Built Environment Through Speculative Maps and Models14
Feeling the Field: An Exploration of a Multisensory Positionality in Migration Research14
Beautiful Mis/takes14
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift: Participatory Youth Research and the Co-Productive Imagination14
The Researcher’s Facilitating Role in Stimulating a Constructive Group Climate in Online Focus-Group Interviews13
Kindred Rites of Sankofa: On Octavia Butler’s Histofuturist Approach to Artful Inquiry12
Unruly Embodiment as Feminist Research Methodology: Reflections on Uncomfortable Spaces and Care Ethics in a Heat Stress Collaborative Project12
Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness12
Hope Inquiry: Vital Moves From the Gut in the Middle Cut Together11
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Images as a Qualitative Method to Research Aging-Technology Futures11
Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research11
Reimagining Research With Black Communities: Community-Led Agendas and Participant Recruitment Strategies11
A Good Name: Pseudonyms in Research10
Transformation Through Practice: A Dialogical Exploration of Embodiment and Presence in Arts-Based Qualitative Research With Self and Others10
Situating Trust, Values, and Ethics in the Politics of Knowledge Production: An Epistemic Shift in the Co-Production of Studying Violent Extremism9
The Art of Data Analysis: Disturbing Knowledge and Performing Critical Inquiry9
Generative AI and Broken Futures9
Beyond Tokenism: Strategies to Co-Disseminate With Migrant Co-Researchers and Expand Their Roles in Neoliberal Academia9
Stitching Together a PAR Project: “Work Active”—Supporting the Journey to Work for People With an Intellectual Disability9
CORRIGENDUM to “Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism”9
Longing as Method: A Rant on Yearnings for Our World, Academia, and Utopian Futurities Beyond Liberalism(s)9
What Do We Do When We Do Social Science?: Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping8
In Memory of Norman Denzin8
Human vs. AI: Evaluating Thematic Analysis With ChatGPT, QInsights, ATLAS.ti AI, and MAXQDA AI Assist8
Blurry Lines: Reflections on “Insider” Research8
Talking to Artists: In-depth Interviews, Cultural Objects, and a Sociology of Art (History) Methodology8
Norman Denzin and America7
“Norman Denzin as a Firestarter”7
Ethical Implications of Using Research-Based Theater to Challenge Hegemonic Narratives About Mental Health7
Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education7
Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research7
Collaborative Creative Engagements as Drivers for Re-imagining Classrooms and Pedagogies7
Big Tent Talk: The Incalculable7
The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards of “Community Peer Research”: Reflections on Research Practice7
Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics6
Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach6
Global Trains of Thought: Coupling Derailment, Environment, Racism, Movement, Progress6
Escaping, Living, and Writing6
Youth Opportunities: Reanimating Data as Found Poems of Transition, Resistance, and Representation6
Theory-Practicing in Critical Times: Viv Bozalek in Conversation With Kathrin Thiele, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Pınar Türer6
Danger, Desire, and Disclosure: A Postqualitative Trauma-Informed Approach to the Ethics of Secrets and Emotion in Qualitative Research6
(Re)membering and (Re)claiming in My Mama’s Kitchen: A Decolonial Feminist Video-Cued Qi Ethnography6
Justice Can Never Arrive: The Opening of the Call to Social Justice in Qualitative Inquiry6
I Was Arriving: Exploring Healing and Knowing in My Own Creation(s)5
Ways That Qualitative Researchers Engage in “Technological Reflexivity”: A Meta-Synthesis5
Weaving Different Discourses to Understand the Field: Mystory as an Analytical Tool5
Working in the Key of Collaboration: Songwriting and Alternative Ethnography as Research Practice5
Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theater Act 15
The Practice of Making Ethics : Methodological Entanglements and Speculative Governance5
Entangled Voicings: Rethinking Voice, Reflexivity, and Discomfort in Qualitative Inquiry5
Dark Inquiries5
Intersectional Performativity Framework: A Collective Reflexivity in Ethics on Ethnographic Research With Vulnerable Groups in China5
No Bull Here, Please: Ethical Demands and Expectations of Audiences5
Arts–Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method5
Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation: At the Nexus of Home, School, and Hip Hop5
Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing5
Practicing Qualitative Research Under the “Big Tent”: Origins, Development, and Continuing Relevance of the Eight Big-Tent Framework for Qualitative Quality5
Hidden Contexts, Multilevel Comparisons, and the Postcolonial Location: Reconsidering the Documentary Method Vis-à-Vis Decolonization5
Ghost Writings5
Pursuing the Post Philosophical New: Taking Our Thoughts for a Walk5
Autoethnography as Social Science or as Social Study?5
Positioning and the Thick Tangles of Spacetimemattering5
Togethering Situation in Diffractive Inquiry5
Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts: An Introduction5
The Garden, Grief, and All That Is5
Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry4
Doing More-Than-Human Research: Developing Qualitative Research Methods for a Multispecies World4
Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts4
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Play, Personae, Writer4
Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry: Webinars and WEBing Sessions Become a Special Issue(s)4
Post-Academia: Life, Liberty, and Happiness?4
Writing a Hero: A Textual Struggle in Memory of Prof. Norman Denzin4
The Meaning of Essences4
Remembering Norman4
How Many Intersections? Theoretical Synergy as a Rationale for Intersectional Biographical Analysis4
Body of Evidence: Time and Desire in Embodied Archives4
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime4
Qualitative Inquiry, Ontology, and the Question of Being: “We Are Not Yet Thinking”4
At Home With . . . A Collaborative Filmmaking Project Made With Artists From Migratory Backgrounds4
Autoethnography as Practice and Process: Toward an Honest Appraisal?4
The Return: Research-Based Theater With and for Ex-Military Personnel Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress4
Constituting Phenomena Through Intra-Action and Intentionality: Is a Posthumanist Phenomenology Possible?4
I Come From: Using Collaborative Auto/Biographical Poetry to Foster Transdisciplinarity and Build Inclusion4
Variations of I: Setting the Poetic Tone for Student-Voiced Action Research4
Writing-With a Parasite Dis/Coloring One’s Skin: Toward Inquiries of Change4
Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios4
Interrogating White Men’s Allyship: Implications of Performativity for Qualitative Methodologies4
New Considerations for Sista Circle Methodology: Applications in Relation to Beauty, Femininity, and Place4
Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden4
A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College4
Reconfiguring Reflexivity in the Era of AI: From “Turning Back” to “Looking Forward” Through Constructivist and Posthumanist Lenses3
Inquiry as Unthought: The Emergence of Thinking Otherwise3
Fieldwork With Epilogue: Uncontrollable Exits, Dilemmas, and Praxis Stories3
A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing3
Preparing for the Research Ceremony: Indigenist Researcher Training3
Space in Between3
Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring Methodological Consequences of Digital Research Workflows3
Embracing Vulnerability: The Critical Practice of Reflexivity as a Non-Pacific Researcher Using Indigenous Methodologies3
Inquiry as Resonance: Wiry Workings of Failure and Patience3
Speculating with Machines: Generative AI in Futures Ethnography3
Performance Autoethnography: EM Not Afraid to Utter Their Emotional Truth3
Design Anthropological Filmmaking for Automated Futures3
AI Voice Methodology: Using Generative AI in Qualitative Social Research3
Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry3
Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy Knowledge and Change3
Research as Healing: Reflections of a Teacher Educator of Color on Critical Race Praxis3
Breach: A Trans*textual Essay3
“What Do You Think Needs to be Done to Address Self-Harm?”: Centering the Perspectives of Youth Who Engage in Self-Harm Through Found Poetry3
Brown Boxes: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Cultural Identity and Fluid Positionality3
A Mile in Their Shoes: Poetic Inquiry for Qualitative Caregiver Research3
Thinking With/About/Through Music as Artful Inquiry: Collaboratively Performing the Onto-Epistemological and Ethical Flow of Inquiring3
The Historical Methodological Foundation of Phenomenography3
Composing Cultural Connections: Exploring Tensions of Creating Composite Ethnodramatic Characters3
Reflexive Qualitative Research and Generative AI: A Call to go Beyond the Binary3
Through the Lens of a Black Woman: Black Feminist Poetic Artful Inquiry in/With/for Qualitative Methodologies3
Gray Zone Identity: An Autoethnographic Journey of Chronic Illness, Diagnostic Uncertainty, and Autoimmunity3
Ethical Engagement and Relational Materialism: A Dialogue3
Bricolage for Innovative Qualitative Social Science Research: A Perspective on Its Conceptual Hallmarks3
Accessing Embodied Knowledges: Poetry as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy3
Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism3
The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions3
Torments of Being Other3
Becoming Ecological: The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers’ Agency in Arts Education3
In Defense of Democratic Qualitative Research Teams: A Bourdieusian Approach to Critical Reflexivity3
Inviting Me In3
Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework3
Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do?3
Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart3
Zine-Making as a Diffractive Methodology for Craftivist Research(ers)2
Ode to Museum Indians: In Honor of Ishi, James Luna, and the Dakota Pipeline Resistance2
Touching Text: Feeling My Way Through Research-Creation2
Co-Presence and Contingency: Comics as a Methodological Innovation in Researching Automated Futures2
Critical Qualitative Research Leader and Friend: Norman Denzin as Teacher of Academic Activism2
Not Subject to Appeal: A Poetic Exploration of Defunded Research2
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis2
“Such a Queer Thing”: A Love Poem for Queer and Trans Young Adults2
“You Think You’re Going to Get Better”: A Creative-Relational Inquiry Into Long Covid and Physical Activity2
Research-Based Theater in the Pediatric Oncology Setting: Balancing Ethical Tensions2
Meet “Me” in the Field(-Notes): The Selves and Self-Relations of Autoethnography2
Owning the Lies2
Heirs of the Enlightenment?2
From Coding to Conversation: A New Methodological Framework for AI-Assisted Qualitative Analysis2
Writing Through Pain: Ars Spirituality, the Black Atlantic, and the Paradox of Diasporic Belongingness2
“Darn It, This Pen Leaks! But Wasn’t It a Pretty Design?” Tracing Contours of the Aesthetic in One Young Woman’s Letters Home From Camp2
A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood2
The Archived Child: Strategies for Amplifying Children’s Contributions to History2
“Connection With the Creator So Our Spirits Can Stay Alive”: A Community-Based Participatory Study With the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA)—Region 32
Yarning Up Relations: Enacting a Relational Ethics in Cross-Cultural Research-Based Theater2
Reading Facebook After Norman K. Denzin’s Passing2
Becoming Trustworthy in Ethically Engaged, Relational Feminist Inquiry2
Embodying Affective Intra-Actions Online: Enacting Posthuman Methods in Virtual Spaces2
Intersectionality Pedagogy: Centering Black Women’s Knowledges, Voices, and Lives in Teaching and Learning2
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research2
Islands, Confluences and Estuaries: When the Legal Doctrinal Meets Social Science Methodologies2
Eat Your Words: An Artful Neuroqueered Fermented Inquiry2
Coming to Terms With the Invective Latency of Ethnographic Relations: A Plea for (Auto)Ethnographic Positioning Analysis2
In Celebration of Norman K. Denzin: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Friend2
She-Search: The Fertile Ground of Black Indigenous Methods (BIM) in Qualitative Inquiry2
“I Wish I had the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man”2
Putting “Us” in Place: A Contrapuntal “Position” on Research Access in Over-Researched Contexts2
What Is It Like to Experience the Other in an Online Interview? Using Phenomenology to Explore the Online Encounter of the Other2
Relational Ethics Through the Flesh: Considerations for an Anti-Colonial Future in Art Education2
For Norman (and me)2
Why We Should Reject to Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Analysis: A Response to Jowsey, Braun, Clarke, Lupton, and Fine (2025)2
Presence as Politics in Qualitative Research Ethics: Feminist Engagements With “Risk” and Vulnerability2
Reimagining the Politics of Belonging Through Counterstorytelling: A Decolonial Praxis of Refusal and Desire2
Traumatic Memories as Sites of Qualitative Inquiry and Healing: Testimonios of Patriarchal and Racial Violence2
Profaning as Artful Inquiry: Fuck Around and Find Out . . . the Seductive Lure Into the Sublime2
Balancing at the Beginning of Words—Revisiting the Idea of Open Awareness in Qualitative Research2
Inquiring Artfully: Provoking Possibilities With/Through/for Qualitative Encounters2
Not So Fast: Research Without Using FXrbXddXn Data2
The Logic of Posthuman Inquiry: Affirmative Politics, Validity, and Futurities2
Pursuing, Practicing, and Portraying Qualitative Research: An Interview With Norman K. Denzin2
Me-Search: Pursuing Race, Culture, and Gender in the Heart and Healing Work of Qualitative Inquiry2
Fleshing Out the Embodied Potentialities of Positionality1
Communal Conversations: Black Women World-Making Through Mentorship1
Quality (and Qualities) in Qualitative Inquiry?1
The Graphic and the Grotesque: Doing History With Your Dad’s Violent, Funny (and Possibly Racist) Comic Strips1
Im/Probabilities of Post/Authorship and Academic Writing Otherwise in Postfoundational Inquiry1
Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry1
Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi1
Ambulant Methods and Rebel Becomings: Reanimating Language in Post-Qualitative Inquiry1
Studying and Imagining Mattering With Black Boys: Mutual Self-Discoveries for Collective Healing and Liberation1
Emergence: (Un)Common Intervention1
On How I Got Through COVID-19 Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach to Resilience in Disability1
In the Depths: Synergies Between the Doctoral Experience and Life in Hong Kong1
I Dream of Norman1
Surfacing Algorithms: An Inventive Method for Accountability1
Conducting Case Study Research to Address the Continued Crises: A Process of Learning to Employ Decolonial Perspectives to Produce a Flourishing Academic Lifeworld1
A Poetic Inquiry of Traumatic Birth Through Bearing Witness1
Eclectic Auto-ethno-graphy?1
Sexuality-Assemblages, Hyphens, and the In-Between1
Entangling Reciprocity With the Relational in Narrative Inquiry1
Image Technologies and Visual Methodologies: Reflections, Experimentations, and Future Redirections1
Cover Letter1
Becoming Ethical Qualitative Researchers in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Michel Foucault’s Ethics of the Self1
Footprints After the Research Act1
Hope for the Twin Cities: Poetic Reflections Amid Systemic Racism1
Inquiring Artlessly : Encounter(ing)s With Monstrous Materialities From/Through the Threshold1
The Qualitative Historical Origins of Mad Studies in Word and Deed, 1436–19141
Infinite Essence: Black Methodology, Artful Inquiry, and the Possibilities of Black Aesthetics1
Decolonizing Methodologies Through Dialogue: A Relational Literature Review on Urban Indigenous Health1
“Complicated” Grief1
Border Rioting and Crossings Between Disciplines and Professions, Countries and Cultures, Science and Society: An Assemblage of Autoethnographic Stories From the High North1
Rigour Under Constraint: Research Security, Authoritarianism, and the Phronetic Future of Qualitative Ethics1
Relational and Aesthetic Accountability: Considerations of a Research-Based Playwright1
The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews With Children Online: Methodological Explorations Based on a Critical Ethnography1
Reintegration as Border Pedagogy: A Female Text1
¿Quién Soy Yo? Voces Poéticas as Poetic Inquiry1
Autoethnographers as Freedom-Writers?1
Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education1
An Introduction to Responding Autoethnography1
Two Truths and a Lie: An Ethnodramatic Exploration of Resistance and Relationships Between Women in Our Current Political and Social Climate1
Denzin’s Lighthouse1
Creative-Relational Inquiry: Institutional Threat, Fortitude, and Flying Like a Brick1
Intersectionality Meets Infrastructure: Recruitment Matrices and Identity Overflow in Just Research1
“Norman as Academic Shane1
Methodology in Motion: Reflections on Using Appnography for the Study of Dating Apps1
“How Ya Doin’?” The Impossibilities of Normalcy While Under Assault1
The Sound of Social Studies Job Searches: The Possibilities of Posthuman Listening1
40 Years of Qualitative Feminist Interviewing: Conceptual Moments and Cultivating Ecosystems of Care1
Iktomi Methodology1
Being Flamingos and Trees: Marginalized Groups Respond to Landscapes Using Inclusive Multimodal Literacies and Arts1
Identifying Misrepresented Participants in Qualitative Research through Culturally Aware and Action-Oriented Strategies1
Complicit in the Catastrophe: Practical Progress With Deleuze and Guattari1
Settler Research in Indigenous Country1
“Trajectories Matter”: Affect, Neuroqueerness, and Music Research-Creation in an Early Childhood Classroom1
The Crealectic Method: From Creativity to Compossibility1
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