OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	100
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	48
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	40
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	38
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	37
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	28
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	28
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	24
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	24
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	23
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	21
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	20
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	20
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	19
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	17
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	16
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	16
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	15
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences	15
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	14
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research	14
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice	14
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	13
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	13
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	13

“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	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	13
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	12
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	12
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	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
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	10
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research	9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	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
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	9
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	8
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	8
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	7
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	7
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	7
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent	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
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field	6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	6
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	6
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	5
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	5
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	5
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	5
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	5
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	5
Provoked perplexity in live methods	5
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	5
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	5
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	5