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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things67
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama38
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections38
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology36
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research35
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method35
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective33
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies25
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts23
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities23
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies22
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines21
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada19
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it18
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews16
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences16
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society15
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice14
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power14
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges14
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field13
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis13
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research13
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage12
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships12
Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops11
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space11
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants10
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis9
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data9
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research9
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants8
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections8
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’8
Notes from a field: a qualitative exploration of human–animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project8
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys8
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork7
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation7
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews7
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials7
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents6
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field6
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space6
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher6
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court6
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-196
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research6
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships6
Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics6
Provoked perplexity in live methods6
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries6
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant6
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology5
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children5
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings5
RETRACTED: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”5
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”5
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-194
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England4
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study4
Participatory action research and oral history as natural allies in mental health research4
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports4
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia4
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women4
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection4
Embodied graffiti and street art research4
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network4
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers3
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation3
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews3
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography3
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-193
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants3
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots3
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana3
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer3
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city3
Disability and fieldwork: A personal reflection3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research3
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness3
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia3
Drawing as a method of researching social representations3
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion3
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal3
Solidarity as methodological praxis3
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations2
Trust and temporality in participatory research2
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research2
Binary blues: Exploring beyond dichotomized gender comparisons with a theory-driven approach2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method2
Unpacking gatekeeping in medical institutions: A case study of access to end-of-life patients2
Reframing temporality in participatory visual research with timelapse video2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas2
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes2
The afterlife of interviews: explicit ethics and subtle ethics in sensitive or distressing qualitative research2
‘Do I have to say I’m gay?’: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings2
Book Review: Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World2
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work2
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research2
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action2
Vibes-based methods2
Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children’s artworks2
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)1
Reading the represented city and society: signs, theory, and the dynamic interpretativeness of Peircean semiotics1
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease1
Partisanship and positionality in qualitative research: Exploring the influences of the researcher’s experiences of serious crime on the research process1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing1
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video1
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China1
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-191
‘So what’s arts got to do with it?’: An autoethnography of navigating researcher positionality while co-creating knowledge1
Imagining research together and working across divides: Arts-informed research about young people’s (post) digital lives1
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’1
Archives of place, feeling, and time: Immersive historical field research in the (Finnish) U.S. Midwest1
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples1
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology1
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth1
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
Participatory research in and against time1
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research1
The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars1
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