OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Research is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	107
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	57
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	54
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	39
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	35
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	33
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	29
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	25
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	25
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	24
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	24
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	23
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	21
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	19
Transcript frame analysis: Thinking with Goffman about interview data	19
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	18
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	18
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	17
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences	15
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	15
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research	15
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	15
Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews	13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	13
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships	12

“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	11
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	11
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Fieldwork in flux: Injury, disruption and the case for flexibility in research design	9
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	9
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	9
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	9
Building and sustaining equitable and inclusive transdisciplinary research teams: A case for in-person collaboration	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	6
‘It is always putting things into words, but now it was about feeling, truly feeling’: Affect Houses as a novel method to attend to of affect	6
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	5
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	5
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	5
Provoked perplexity in live methods	5
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community	4
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives	4
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children	4
“Say more?” Refusal, resonance, and the feminist ear in academic review	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4

Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-AlbújarYSládkováJ (	4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production	4
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England	4
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection	4
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	4
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	4
Document analysis: How to make sense of legal and authoritative texts	4
Caring in qualitative interviews: A working model for interviews in the transformative paradigm	4
Beyond vulnerable populations: vulnerability, fieldwork and knowledge production	4
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	3
Book Review: The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty by Wacquant L. WacquantL. (2025). The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty. New York: Oxford Univ	3
Prime incentives, ethical dilemmas: The case of Amazon gift cards and lessons for integrity in social research	3
‘Episodic participant observation’: Critiquing the ideal and offering an inclusive version of participant observation as a supplementary method in qualitative studies	3
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers	3
Plática as methodology and method: Using a critical lens to research AfroLatine and Queer Latine college experiences	3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research	3
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study	3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk	3
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women	3
Dilemmas in embodied methods: Towards holistic description in qualitative research	3
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working	3
Solidarity as methodological praxis	3
Using qualitative research co-design for intergenerational perspectives of online play	3
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-19	3
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana	3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research	3
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews	3
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care	2
Eating, inventing, and caring together: Ephemeral commensality in an experimental restaurant	2
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-19	2
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography	2
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants	2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action	2
Exploration and specificity: a critical analysis of uses of comics as a method across qualitative research processes	2
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing	2
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars	2
More-than-human research: Being with as onto-epistemological method	2
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’	2
Vibes-based methods	2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings	2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion	2
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer	2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts	2
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations	2
Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology	2
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia	2
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes	2
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work	2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method	2
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal	2
Participant observation in the 21st century: How the digital dimension matters for all ethnographers	2
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city	2
Exploring art-oriented interview: An arts-based methodological tool to elicit narratives	2
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	2
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video	2
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK	2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas	2