OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	67
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	38
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	38
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	36
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research	35
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	35
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	33
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	25
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	23
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	23
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	22
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	21
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	19
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	18
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews	16
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences	16
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	15
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice	14
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	14
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	14
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories	13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	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
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research	13

Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships	12
Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research	11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	11
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	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
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	9
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research	9
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	8
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections	8
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 project	8
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	8
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	7
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	7
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	7
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials	7
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	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
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field	6
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	6
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	6
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	6
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	6
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	6
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
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics	6
Provoked perplexity in live methods	6
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	6
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant	6