OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	66
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	44
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	39
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	39
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	35
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	30
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	29
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	27
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	26
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	25
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	19
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	19
Transcript frame analysis: Thinking with Goffman about interview data	18
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	16
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	15
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	15
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	13
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers by Ugo Corte CorteUgo, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers. Chicago: Uni	13
Drawing insight: sequential art narrative as reflexive analysis in hermeneutic phenomenology	12
Richness, rapport, and rigor in digital interviews: Rethinking methodological presence through the “pocket-size ethnographer” positionality	12
Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	12
Recalibrating epistemic alignment: A researcher's journey toward methodological coherence	12

Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	11
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	10
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
Fieldwork in flux: Injury, disruption and the case for flexibility in research design	9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	7
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	7
Building and sustaining equitable and inclusive transdisciplinary research teams: A case for in-person collaboration	7
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’	7
Insider/outsider debates: Making whiteness visible in the Irish context	7
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	7
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	7
Stamped with meaning: post-cards as qualitative inquiry in educational travel	6
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	6
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
“I probably would've passed the opportunity otherwise”: Incorporating text message interviewing in multi-modal data collection methods	6
Ending participatory research projects: Entangled temporalities, endy moments and afterlives	6
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	5
Screens and clouds: Methodological changes and ethical dilemmas when researching digital literacy socialisation of a toddler	5
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	5
‘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	5
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	5
Visual methods in disaster recovery research: Cultural and ethical challenges in implementation	5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	5
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	4
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	4
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
Caring in qualitative interviews: A working model for interviews in the transformative paradigm	4
Book Review: Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-between by Christopher R. Matthews Matthew	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	4
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	4
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production	4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives	4
Document analysis: How to make sense of legal and authoritative texts	4
Coping with distressing research: Emotional engagement and researcher well-being	4
Provoked perplexity in live methods	4
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	4

The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	4
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	4
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community	4
Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-Alb	4
Researcher street race-gender in qualitative field work	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4