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 2022-05-01 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
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	24
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	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
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	18
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	18
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	17
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	15
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
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
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
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
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
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
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
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
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	7
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
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
Provoked perplexity in live methods	5
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