Qualitative Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Research 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
It’s a sprint, not a marathon: a case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory research56
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research37
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups32
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia32
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas31
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú30
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network29
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants24
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age22
Adapting participatory research methods for reflexive environmental management21
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports20
Tupua te Kawa: Indigenous methodologies for non-Indigenous (and Indigenous) organisations19
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-1918
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth17
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work17
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections17
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study16
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants15
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research14
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections14
Told and untold stories: Finding new ways to represent the voices of culturally diverse learners through narrative vignettes14
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand14
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women13
Ethnographer as creation: A Whiteheadian interpretation of the ethnographic subject13
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities13
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’13
Managing neutrality, rapport, and antiracism in qualitative interviews13
Examining the value of using naturally occurring data to facilitate qualitative health research with ‘seldom heard’ ‘vulnerable’ groups: A research note on inpatient care12
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective12
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia12
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care12
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations11
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices11
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research11
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies10
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork10
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method10
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews10
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes10
Trust and temporality in participatory research10
Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography9
Unveiling racism through qualitative research: The politics of interpretation9
Book Review: Richa Nagar, Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability9
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia8
Embodied graffiti and street art research8
Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research8
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation8
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research8
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology8
Notes from a field: a qualitative exploration of human–animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project8
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama7
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things7
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth7
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research7
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video7
Doing research into Indigenous issues being non-Indigenous7
Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic7
Book review: Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents7
“Under threat”: handling threats during ethnographic fieldwork6
Book Review: A Guidebook for Novice Qualitative Researchers6
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars6
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation6
Thinking methodologies with textiles, thinking textiles as methodologies in the context of transitional justice6
Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice6
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort6
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews6
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana6
Reflexivity in research teams through narrative practice and textile-making6
Beyond listening: the value of co-research in the co-construction of narratives6
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK6
Challenges and strategies of translation in a qualitative and sensitive research6
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada5
Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts5
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines5
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it5
Quest for Equity: Using multiple methodologies to promote collaboration and engagement in anti-racism education5
Images as ‘potentials’: Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice5
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts5
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing5
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal5
How to tackle variations in elite interviews: Access, strategies, and power dynamics5
Embodied reflexivity in voice-only interviewing: Navigating gender in difficult-to-access contexts4
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing: A collaborative journey with object interviews4
Participatory research in and against time4
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy4
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials4
Addressing the binaries of regional/urban and boundaries of research methodologies in and through ‘slow’ research with women from non-urban communities4
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice4
Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering4
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant4
Ethical challenges in participatory action research: Experiences and insights from an arts-based study in the pacific4
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness4
Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and cross-threading4
A novice inquiry into unique adequacy3
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research3
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China3
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation3
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships3
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice3
“You have the right to love and be loved”: participatory theatre for disability justice with self-advocates3
Digitally shaped ethnographic relationships during a global pandemic and beyond3
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry: de/composing the ghoulish hu/man gaze3
Researching event-centred projects: Showcasing grounded aesthetics3
Recognizing the never quite absent: de facto usage, ethical issues, and applications of covert research in difficult research contexts3
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’3
Rethinking digital ethnography: A qualitative approach to understanding interfaces3
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies3
Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots3
Charlas y Comidas: Humanising focus groups and interviews3
Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices2
Reflecting on the use of Google Docs for online interviews: Innovation in qualitative data collection2
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK2
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void2
Zine-making for critical cultural justice inquiry: a qualitative multi-method approach to reimagining Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island2
Archives of place, feeling, and time: Immersive historical field research in the (Finnish) U.S. Midwest2
Participatory video from a distance: co-producing knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic using smartphones2
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers2
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences2
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos2
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working2
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange2
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-192
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research2
Book Review: Gary Barkhuizen, (Ed)., Qualitative Research Topics in Language Teacher Education2
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups2
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field2
Book Review: Handbook of Autoethnography by Adams, T. E., Holman Jones, S., & Ellis, C.2
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place2
On assistants and researchers: Power, positionality and vulnerability during fieldwork on the Colombian conflict2
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power2
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent2
A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow2
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews2
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court1
On staying: Extended temporalities, relationships and practices in community engaged scholarship1
Researching ‘non-sexualities’ via creative notebooks: epistemology, embodiment and empowerment1
Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry1
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal1
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens1
Participatory data analysis in social change work: empowering, practical, or both?1
Ethnomethodological ethnography: Historical, conceptual, and methodological foundations1
Visibilities and invisibilities in data reuse: video records of practice in education1
Drawing as a method of researching social representations1
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis1
The borders of theory: Towards an artful ontology of knowing in qualitative research1
Solidarity as methodological praxis1
Violent re-presentations: Reflections on the ethics of re-presentation in violence research1
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space1
Online synchronous focus group interviews: Practical considerations1
A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry1
From Interpretation to Interruption: Embracing disruptive analysis1
A social researcher researching social researchers – Lessons from feminist epistemologies1
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction1
Co-constructing participatory ethics to address hierarchy and inequality: Social work ethics in research practice1
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society1
Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence1
Translating Interviews, interpreting lives: bi-lingual research analysis informing less westernised views of international student mobility1
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher1
Co-operative inquiry: Qualitative methodology transforming research ‘about’ to research ‘with’ people1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings1
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage1
Seeing bodies in social sciences research: Body mapping and violent extremism in Kenya1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents1
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