OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Research in Psychology is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking imaginations: lessons learnt from using story stem completion with young children	254
Exploring ChatGPT’s potential as a qualitative research partner: researcher and participant perspectives on AI-generated insights	144
Exploring reflexive methodology as a pluralist approach to enhance mixed methods research on coping and livability among LGBTQ people in Sweden	117
Tapestries of inquiry—digital diaries as an engaged affective method in collective knowledge-making	60
Producing commons through intermedial Narratives: embodied struggles of women in Chile and Colombia	32
The approach and application of analysing inductive and deductive datasets: a worked example using reflexive thematic analysis	32
Untangling ethical issues in participatory research practices with young people in contexts of oppression	26
Challenging psychology and human reconstruction: a review of ‘Innovations in Psychological Anthropology’	25
Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism	24
Agency in sedimented situations featuring farmer experiences of climate disruptions in the Mekong Delta	24
Persons in a posthuman world	22
Reformative concept analysis for applied psychology qualitative research	18
Out of sight, out of mind: how pescetarians manage dissonance by creating distance	17
What is the place of interpretation in text analysis? An example using ALCESTE® software	16
Narrative productions of memory: reflections on collective memories as knowledge about the past	13
Critical praxeological analysis: respecifying critical research	12
Insider/outsider dynamics: a reflexive thematic analysis of reflexivity/positionality in the ‘qualitative research in psychology’ journal	11
EquiP – the first European association for qualitative researchers in psychology	10
Toward a trauma-informed qualitative research approach: Guidelines for ensuring the safety and promoting the resilience of research participants	10
How constructivist grounded theory facilitates critical qualitative inquiry: examples from psychological research on creative writing	9
Avatar-Based Interviewing: Mediated research interviews in a gamified world	9
Arts-based research, animal studies and Pavlov’s dogs: making the familiar strange in psychology	9
Longitudinal place-based research: exploring spatialised student experiences through walking interviews	8
Analysing entertainment documentaries with discursive psychology incorporating Goffman’s concept of frames	8
How are interpretive methods feminist and queer? Four discursive methods for studying marginality	8

An interactional analysis of Muslim women resisting discourses of othering through humour: an autoethnographic reflection of a critical micro-analytic approach	8
Beyond the rural–urban entrenchment: untangling, exploring, and legitimizing rural diversity through participatory action research	8
The world café is an unmethod within co-produced research	7
Making the universe together: Baradian inspirations for the future of qualitative psychology	7
Zooming into qualitative research: online adaptation of the action-project method research design	7
Architectures of counter remembrance: co-constructing memory box autobiographies with second-generation Tamil refugees	7
Introducing a synthetic Foucauldian narrative/discourse analysis	6
Missing people and fragmented stories: painting holistic pictures through Single Pen Portrait Analysis (SPPA)	6
Lego Serious Play in Psychology: Exploring Its Use in Qualitative Interviews	6
Beyond the academic imposter syndrome: A feminist relational discourse analysis of accounts of (un)belonging from UK working-class women academics	6
Beyond a protagonist bias in narrative identity research: methods for identifying master narratives in interview data	5
Foodscape walking as a research technique in psychology: exploring migrant identity through food practices in urban contexts	5
Walking with sheep, dancing with dragonflies: moving-with multispecies ecologies	5
Developing a novel, systematic form of Media Framing Analysis to discursively examine the UK’s Employment and Support Allowance policy	5
Generating positive self-descriptions in a research context: a discursive psychological and conversation analysis of interview products and practices	5
“One rule for MPs, one rule for ordinary people”: using discursive psychology to explore how class-based assumptions of “ordinariness” and “exceptionalism” are negotiated in political entertainment sh	5
More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research	4
Bringing identities to the table: Exploring conversational practices of vegetarians and vegans at flashpoints in interaction with meat-eaters	4
Open qualitative data: a worked example of qualitative data sharing from an interview study on loneliness in young adulthood	4
Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in qualitative research: reflections	4
Enhancing qualitative research in psychology with large language models: a methodological exploration and examples of simulations	4
A listening guide analysis of an immigrant woman’s journey away from the changing landscape of home	4
Mitigating the risk of imposter participants in qualitative research: evidence-based guidance for researchers and organisations	4
Experience without essentialism: on ‘posting’ phenomenology	3
Rethinking the dialogical dimension of narrative productions beyond co-construction: unveiling the role of disagreement, contradictions, and dispute	3
Suffering and radical healing among women survivors of acid attack in India: a qualitative study using an augmented reality comic	3
Methodological considerations for interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in visual research: a practical guide to using collages	3
Beyond talk and text: Visuality and critical discursive psychology	3
The geopolitics of knowledge production, or how to inhabit a contradiction: introduction to the special issue on the narrative productions methodology	3
In bloom: nurturing lived experience researchers and responsiveness – reflections and recommendations from an intersectional lens	3
Decolonizing research: recommendations from a migrant home photovoice study	3
“You’re a kid, you don’t know where you are”: the voiced experiences of nonbinary youth navigating discursive realms of legitimacy	3
It might be able to produce a text, but it’s not able to produce knowledge : qualitative researchers’ perspectives on the use of Generative AI in research	3
An affective reading on narrative productions methodology. Narrative as a body	3
The embodied musicality of hetero-cisgender violence: an analysis strategy to study mental health problems from a narrative-dialogic perspective	3
The art of not being neutral in qualitative research	3
Cultural process considerations in a mixed methods investigation of social enterprise performance in Vietnam	2
Unravelling the spectrum of victimhood within patriarchy: methodological self-consciousness in a constructivist grounded theory study with acid attack survivors in India	2
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis	2
The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts	2
Children’s perceptions of animals in animal assisted interventions: a thematic synthesis	2
Analyzing constructions of disability in everyday talk: Methodological applications of discursive psychology	2
Embodying sentipensar : exploring spatiality in qualitative research in psychology	2
Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children	2
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURES TURN: an anticipatory infrastructure for qualitative methods	2
The methodological and epistemic narrative of narrative productions	2
“Holders of knowledge are communities, not academic institutions”: lessons from involving minoritised older people as co-researchers in a study of loneliness in later life	2
Probing in qualitative research interviews: Theory and practice	2
Correction	2
Ethical and methodological insights: an interdisciplinary study of letters written by Jews interned in the Drancy camp during the Second World War	2

Refining semi-structured interview schedules as a foundation for criticality in grounded theory: Co-constructing migrants’ identities in India	2
Funeral services, interaction with grieving clients, and human-animal bond in animals’ Heaven Cemetery, Romania: an exploratory qualitative analysis	2