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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Looking at the ‘field’ through a Zoom lens: Methodological reflections on conducting online research during a global pandemic	226
Beyond a coefficient: an interactive process for achieving inter-rater consistency in qualitative coding	72
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	41
Using WhatsApp for focus group discussions: ecological validity, inclusion and deliberation	40
The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging	32
Conducting cross-cultural qualitative interviews with mainland Chinese participants during COVID: Lessons from the field	31
Participatory video from a distance: co-producing knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic using smartphones	31
The afterlife of interviews: explicit ethics and subtle ethics in sensitive or distressing qualitative research	28
Reflecting on the use of Google Docs for online interviews: Innovation in qualitative data collection	27
A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry	26
Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering	26
Online synchronous focus group interviews: Practical considerations	24
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research	22
The smell of lockdown: Smellwalks as sensuous methodology	19
Student voices that resonate – Constructing composite narratives that represent students’ classroom experiences	17
Drawing as a method of researching social representations	17
Participatory action research with and for undocumented college students: Ethical challenges and methodological opportunities	15
Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics	15
Harm, change and unpredictability: the ethics of interviews in conflict research	15
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant	14
Reflexive practice in live sociology: lessons from researching Brexit in the lives of British citizens living in the EU-27	13
Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices	13
Trust and temporality in participatory research	13
Writing sociological fiction	13
How to tackle variations in elite interviews: Access, strategies, and power dynamics	13

Doing research into Indigenous issues being non-Indigenous	13
Unsettling descriptions: attending to the potential of things that threaten to undermine care	13
Digitally shaped ethnographic relationships during a global pandemic and beyond	13
An un/familiar space: children and parents as collaborators in autoethnographic family research	12
Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence	12
Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research	12
Reflexivity in research teams through narrative practice and textile-making	12
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times	12
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research	12
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews	11
Rethinking digital ethnography: A qualitative approach to understanding interfaces	11
‘Lasses are much easier to get on with’: The gendered labour of a female ethnographer in an all-male group	11
Participatory research in and against time	11
Deepening reflexivity through art in learning qualitative research	10
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal	10
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology	10
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research	10
On staying: Extended temporalities, relationships and practices in community engaged scholarship	10
‘So what’s arts got to do with it?’: An autoethnography of navigating researcher positionality while co-creating knowledge	9
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’	9
It’s a sprint, not a marathon: a case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory research	9
Beyond listening: the value of co-research in the co-construction of narratives	8
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies	8
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field	8
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	8
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories	8
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing: A collaborative journey with object interviews	8
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes	8
Doing things with description: practices, politics, and the art of attentiveness	8
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place	8
Young people engaging in event-based diaries: A reflection on the value of diary methods in higher education decision-making research	7
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples	7
Describing recovery from drugs and alcohol: how ‘small’ practices of care matter	7
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research	7
Implicit influence on body image: methodological innovation for research into embodied experience	7
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent	7
Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research	7
Doing ethnomethodological ethnography. Moving between autoethnography and the phenomenon in “hybrid studies” of taiji, ballet, and yoga	7
Out of the blue and into it: Autoethnography, emotions and complicated grief	7
Images as ‘potentials’: Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice	7
Cufflinks, photos and YouTube: the benefits of third object prompts when researching race and discrimination in elite higher education	6
Rethinking the concept of ‘subaltern-researcher’: different D/deaf identities and communicative modalities as conflict factors in in-depth interviews	6
Ethnomethodological ethnography: Historical, conceptual, and methodological foundations	6
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	6
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	6
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation	6
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’	6
Just what are we doing when we’re describing AI? Harvey Sacks, the commentator machine, and the descriptive politics of the new artificial intelligence	6
Recognizing the never quite absent: de facto usage, ethical issues, and applications of covert research in difficult research contexts	6
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry: de/composing the ghoulish hu/man gaze	6

Embodied graffiti and street art research	6
Silhouettes analysis: a posthuman method for visualizing and examining the material world	6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	6
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China	6
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	6