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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
It’s a sprint, not a marathon: a case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory research	56
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research	37
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	32
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups	32
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas	31
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú	30
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network	29
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	24
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age	22
Adapting participatory research methods for reflexive environmental management	21
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports	20
Tupua te Kawa: Indigenous methodologies for non-Indigenous (and Indigenous) organisations	19
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-19	18
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work	17
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	17
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth	17
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study	16
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants	15
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand	14
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research	14
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections	14
Told and untold stories: Finding new ways to represent the voices of culturally diverse learners through narrative vignettes	14
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’	13
Managing neutrality, rapport, and antiracism in qualitative interviews	13
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women	13

Ethnographer as creation: A Whiteheadian interpretation of the ethnographic subject	13
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	13
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care	12
Examining the value of using naturally occurring data to facilitate qualitative health research with ‘seldom heard’ ‘vulnerable’ groups: A research note on inpatient care	12
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	12
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	12
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	11
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations	11
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices	11
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	10
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes	10
Trust and temporality in participatory research	10
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	10
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	10
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	10
Unveiling racism through qualitative research: The politics of interpretation	9
Book Review: Richa Nagar, Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability	9
Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography	9
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation	8
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research	8
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	8
Notes from a field: a qualitative exploration of human–animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project	8
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia	8
Embodied graffiti and street art research	8
Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research	8
Doing research into Indigenous issues being non-Indigenous	7
Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Book review: Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents	7
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	7
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	7
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	7
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research	7
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video	7
Reflexivity in research teams through narrative practice and textile-making	6
Beyond listening: the value of co-research in the co-construction of narratives	6
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK	6
Challenges and strategies of translation in a qualitative and sensitive research	6
“Under threat”: handling threats during ethnographic fieldwork	6
Book Review: A Guidebook for Novice Qualitative Researchers	6
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars	6
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation	6
Thinking methodologies with textiles, thinking textiles as methodologies in the context of transitional justice	6
Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice	6
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort	6
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews	6
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana	6
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	5
Quest for Equity: Using multiple methodologies to promote collaboration and engagement in anti-racism education	5
Images as ‘potentials’: Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice	5
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	5

On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing	5
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal	5
How to tackle variations in elite interviews: Access, strategies, and power dynamics	5
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	5
Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts	5
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	5