OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Inquiry is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter	83
“Don’t I Have a Say?”: A Critical Autoethnography on Choice and Essentiality-of-Being	53
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies	53
The Emotional Burden of Studying White Emotionalities: My Kuwento , My Testimony	45
Keeping the Conversation Going: Rendering Each Other Capable While Creating Zines	36
Autoethnography: An (Incomplete) Abecedarian Assemblage	32
Navel-Gazing Breaks the Heart Open: Autoethnography as Love-in-Action	31
The Insider’s Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research	23
Sand in Sculpture : Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health	22
Romance, Relationships, and Rights : Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas in a Research-Based Theater Project With Self-Advocate Co-Creators and Actors	22
Homecoming With Culturally Situated Philosophies of Being in Qualitative Inquiry	19
Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter	19
Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England	18
Between the Field and Elsewhere: Using Dialogic Collaborative Autoethnography in Ethnographic Restudies	17
Cool and the Gang: Empowering Young Children to Choose Their Own Research Pseudonyms	16
‘A ticket to a very different show’: Poetic Ethnodrama Through the Eyes of Young Elite Gymnasts	16
Developing Methodologies for Co-Production of Knowledge: Data Production and Analysis in Community-Based Research Partnerships	16
Learning From the Mess: What Happens in Social Media Elicitation Interviews	16
The Persistence of Life and Play in በርበረ [ ber-be-re ] Transcripts	15
Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Method Extended: Care Work Between Abstract Rules and Situated Practice	15
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift: Participatory Youth Research and the Co-Productive Imagination	14
Three Refrains: Jumps in the Assemblage	14
Feeling the Field: An Exploration of a Multisensory Positionality in Migration Research	14
The Seven Ages of an Academic Man? (First)	14
Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry	13

Beautiful Mis/takes	13
The Researcher’s Facilitating Role in Stimulating a Constructive Group Climate in Online Focus-Group Interviews	12
New Possibilities for Spatial Research: Re-Animating the Built Environment Through Speculative Maps and Models	12
A Good Name: Pseudonyms in Research	11
Searching for Validity in Interview Research on Football (Soccer) Ultras as a Hard-to-Reach Group	11
Unruly Embodiment as Feminist Research Methodology: Reflections on Uncomfortable Spaces and Care Ethics in a Heat Stress Collaborative Project	10
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Images as a Qualitative Method to Research Aging-Technology Futures	10
Kindred Rites of Sankofa: On Octavia Butler’s Histofuturist Approach to Artful Inquiry	10
Reimagining Research With Black Communities: Community-Led Agendas and Participant Recruitment Strategies	10
Generative AI and Broken Futures	9
Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness	9
Transformation Through Practice: A Dialogical Exploration of Embodiment and Presence in Arts-Based Qualitative Research With Self and Others	9
What Do We Do When We Do Social Science?: Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping	9
Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research	9
CORRIGENDUM to “Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism”	9
Hope Inquiry: Vital Moves From the Gut in the Middle Cut Together	9
Situating Trust, Values, and Ethics in the Politics of Knowledge Production: An Epistemic Shift in the Co-Production of Studying Violent Extremism	8
Longing as Method : A Rant on Yearnings for Our World, Academia, and Utopian Futurities Beyond Liberalism(s)	8
Human vs. AI: Evaluating Thematic Analysis With ChatGPT, QInsights, ATLAS.ti AI, and MAXQDA AI Assist	8
Stitching Together a PAR Project: “Work Active”—Supporting the Journey to Work for People With an Intellectual Disability	8
Beyond Tokenism: Strategies to Co-Disseminate With Migrant Co-Researchers and Expand Their Roles in Neoliberal Academia	8
Talking to Artists: In-depth Interviews, Cultural Objects, and a Sociology of Art (History) Methodology	8
Collaborative Creative Engagements as Drivers for Re-imagining Classrooms and Pedagogies	7
In Memory of Norman Denzin	7
The Art of Data Analysis: Disturbing Knowledge and Performing Critical Inquiry	7
Escaping, Living, and Writing	7
Youth Opportunities: Reanimating Data as Found Poems of Transition, Resistance, and Representation	7
Blurry Lines: Reflections on “Insider” Research	7
The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards of “Community Peer Research”: Reflections on Research Practice	7
Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics	7
Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research	7
Big Tent Talk: The Incalculable	6
Theory-Practicing in Critical Times: Viv Bozalek in Conversation With Kathrin Thiele, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Pınar Türer	6
Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach	6
“Norman Denzin as a Firestarter”	6
Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education	6
(Re)membering and (Re)claiming in My Mama’s Kitchen: A Decolonial Feminist Video-Cued Qi Ethnography	6
Ethical Implications of Using Research-Based Theater to Challenge Hegemonic Narratives About Mental Health	6
Danger, Desire, and Disclosure: A Postqualitative Trauma-Informed Approach to the Ethics of Secrets and Emotion in Qualitative Research	6
Norman Denzin and America	6
Intersectional Performativity Framework: A Collective Reflexivity in Ethics on Ethnographic Research With Vulnerable Groups in China	5
Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts: An Introduction	5
Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing	5
Hidden Contexts, Multilevel Comparisons, and the Postcolonial Location: Reconsidering the Documentary Method Vis-à-Vis Decolonization	5
Togethering Situation in Diffractive Inquiry	5
Positioning and the Thick Tangles of Spacetimemattering	5
No Bull Here, Please: Ethical Demands and Expectations of Audiences	5
The Practice of Making Ethics : Methodological Entanglements and Speculative Governance	5
Arts–Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method	5
Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation: At the Nexus of Home, School, and Hip Hop	5

Justice Can Never Arrive: The Opening of the Call to Social Justice in Qualitative Inquiry	5
Working in the Key of Collaboration: Songwriting and Alternative Ethnography as Research Practice	5
Global Trains of Thought: Coupling Derailment, Environment, Racism, Movement, Progress	5
Entangled Voicings: Rethinking Voice, Reflexivity, and Discomfort in Qualitative Inquiry	5
Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theater Act 1	5
Practicing Qualitative Research Under the “Big Tent”: Origins, Development, and Continuing Relevance of the Eight Big-Tent Framework for Qualitative Quality	5
Ways That Qualitative Researchers Engage in “Technological Reflexivity”: A Meta-Synthesis	5
Pursuing the Post Philosophical New: Taking Our Thoughts for a Walk	5
Autoethnography as Social Science or as Social Study?	5
Interrogating White Men’s Allyship: Implications of Performativity for Qualitative Methodologies	4
Variations of I: Setting the Poetic Tone for Student-Voiced Action Research	4
The Meaning of Essences	4
I Come From: Using Collaborative Auto/Biographical Poetry to Foster Transdisciplinarity and Build Inclusion	4
How Many Intersections? Theoretical Synergy as a Rationale for Intersectional Biographical Analysis	4
Remembering Norman	4
New Considerations for Sista Circle Methodology: Applications in Relation to Beauty, Femininity, and Place	4
Ghost Writings	4
Doing More-Than-Human Research: Developing Qualitative Research Methods for a Multispecies World	4
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Play, Personae, Writer	4
I Was Arriving: Exploring Healing and Knowing in My Own Creation(s)	4
At Home With . . . A Collaborative Filmmaking Project Made With Artists From Migratory Backgrounds	4
Preparing for the Research Ceremony: Indigenist Researcher Training	4
Constituting Phenomena Through Intra-Action and Intentionality: Is a Posthumanist Phenomenology Possible?	4
Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts	4
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime	4
“What Do You Think Needs to be Done to Address Self-Harm?”: Centering the Perspectives of Youth Who Engage in Self-Harm Through Found Poetry	4
Qualitative Inquiry, Ontology, and the Question of Being: “We Are Not Yet Thinking”	4
Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry	4
Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry: Webinars and WEBing Sessions Become a Special Issue(s)	4
Dark Inquiries	4
The Return : Research-Based Theater With and for Ex-Military Personnel Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress	4
Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework	3
Bricolage for Innovative Qualitative Social Science Research: A Perspective on Its Conceptual Hallmarks	3
Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry	3
Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy Knowledge and Change	3
Brown Boxes: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Cultural Identity and Fluid Positionality	3
Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart	3
Gray Zone Identity: An Autoethnographic Journey of Chronic Illness, Diagnostic Uncertainty, and Autoimmunity	3
Fieldwork With Epilogue: Uncontrollable Exits, Dilemmas, and Praxis Stories	3
Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism	3
Post-Academia: Life, Liberty, and Happiness?	3
Torments of Being Other	3
Ethical Engagement and Relational Materialism: A Dialogue	3
Thinking With/About/Through Music as Artful Inquiry: Collaboratively Performing the Onto-Epistemological and Ethical Flow of Inquiring	3
Inviting Me In	3
Reflexive Qualitative Research and Generative AI: A Call to go Beyond the Binary	3
Autoethnography as Practice and Process: Toward an Honest Appraisal?	3
Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring Methodological Consequences of Digital Research Workflows	3
Composing Cultural Connections: Exploring Tensions of Creating Composite Ethnodramatic Characters	3
Reconfiguring Reflexivity in the Era of AI: From “Turning Back” to “Looking Forward” Through Constructivist and Posthumanist Lenses	3
A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing	3
Performance Autoethnography: EM Not Afraid to Utter Their Emotional Truth	3
Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden	3
Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios	3
Research as Healing: Reflections of a Teacher Educator of Color on Critical Race Praxis	3
A Mile in Their Shoes: Poetic Inquiry for Qualitative Caregiver Research	3
Inquiry as Unthought: The Emergence of Thinking Otherwise	3
Inquiry as Resonance: Wiry Workings of Failure and Patience	3
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis	3
In Defense of Democratic Qualitative Research Teams: A Bourdieusian Approach to Critical Reflexivity	3
Breach: A Trans*textual Essay	3
Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do?	3
Through the Lens of a Black Woman: Black Feminist Poetic Artful Inquiry in/With/for Qualitative Methodologies	3
AI Voice Methodology: Using Generative AI in Qualitative Social Research	3
Accessing Embodied Knowledges: Poetry as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	3
The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions	3
Writing a Hero: A Textual Struggle in Memory of Prof. Norman Denzin	3
A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College	3
Design Anthropological Filmmaking for Automated Futures	3
Speculating with Machines: Generative AI in Futures Ethnography	3
The Historical Methodological Foundation of Phenomenography	3