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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking imaginations: lessons learnt from using story stem completion with young children	327
Exploring reflexive methodology as a pluralist approach to enhance mixed methods research on coping and livability among LGBTQ people in Sweden	167
Tapestries of inquiry—digital diaries as an engaged affective method in collective knowledge-making	134
Exploring ChatGPT’s potential as a qualitative research partner: researcher and participant perspectives on AI-generated insights	66
The approach and application of analysing inductive and deductive datasets: a worked example using reflexive thematic analysis	38
Untangling ethical issues in participatory research practices with young people in contexts of oppression	35
Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism	35
Challenging psychology and human reconstruction: a review of ‘Innovations in Psychological Anthropology’	28
Democratising AI in qualitative psychology: the role of public involvement	26
Agency in sedimented situations featuring farmer experiences of climate disruptions in the Mekong Delta	26
Persons in a posthuman world	26
Insider/outsider dynamics: a reflexive thematic analysis of reflexivity/positionality in the ‘qualitative research in psychology’ journal	22
Critical praxeological analysis: respecifying critical research	18
Narrative productions of memory: reflections on collective memories as knowledge about the past	18
What is the place of interpretation in text analysis? An example using ALCESTE® software	15
Reformative concept analysis for applied psychology qualitative research	12
Out of sight, out of mind: how pescetarians manage dissonance by creating distance	12
Toward a trauma-informed qualitative research approach: Guidelines for ensuring the safety and promoting the resilience of research participants	11
EquiP – the first European association for qualitative researchers in psychology	11
How constructivist grounded theory facilitates critical qualitative inquiry: examples from psychological research on creative writing	10
Avatar-Based Interviewing: Mediated research interviews in a gamified world	10
Beyond the rural–urban entrenchment: untangling, exploring, and legitimizing rural diversity through participatory action research	9
Analysing entertainment documentaries with discursive psychology incorporating Goffman’s concept of frames	9
Arts-based research, animal studies and Pavlov’s dogs: making the familiar strange in psychology	8
Longitudinal place-based research: exploring spatialised student experiences through walking interviews	8

An interactional analysis of Muslim women resisting discourses of othering through humour: an autoethnographic reflection of a critical micro-analytic approach	8
How are interpretive methods feminist and queer? Four discursive methods for studying marginality	8
Architectures of counter remembrance: co-constructing memory box autobiographies with second-generation Tamil refugees	7
Beyond the academic imposter syndrome: A feminist relational discourse analysis of accounts of (un)belonging from UK working-class women academics	7
Missing people and fragmented stories: painting holistic pictures through Single Pen Portrait Analysis (SPPA)	7
Making the universe together: Baradian inspirations for the future of qualitative psychology	7
Lego Serious Play in Psychology: Exploring Its Use in Qualitative Interviews	7
The world café is an unmethod within co-produced research	7
Zooming into qualitative research: online adaptation of the action-project method research design	7
Introducing a synthetic Foucauldian narrative/discourse analysis	7
“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	6
Foodscape walking as a research technique in psychology: exploring migrant identity through food practices in urban contexts	6
Developing a novel, systematic form of Media Framing Analysis to discursively examine the UK’s Employment and Support Allowance policy	6
Beyond a protagonist bias in narrative identity research: methods for identifying master narratives in interview data	6
Generating positive self-descriptions in a research context: a discursive psychological and conversation analysis of interview products and practices	6
Enhancing qualitative research in psychology with large language models: a methodological exploration and examples of simulations	5
Open qualitative data: a worked example of qualitative data sharing from an interview study on loneliness in young adulthood	5
Walking with sheep, dancing with dragonflies: moving-with multispecies ecologies	5
More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research	5
Bringing identities to the table: Exploring conversational practices of vegetarians and vegans at flashpoints in interaction with meat-eaters	4
The geopolitics of knowledge production, or how to inhabit a contradiction: introduction to the special issue on the narrative productions methodology	4
Rethinking the dialogical dimension of narrative productions beyond co-construction: unveiling the role of disagreement, contradictions, and dispute	4
Suffering and radical healing among women survivors of acid attack in India: a qualitative study using an augmented reality comic	4
Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in qualitative research: reflections	4
A listening guide analysis of an immigrant woman’s journey away from the changing landscape of home	4
An affective reading on narrative productions methodology. Narrative as a body	4
In bloom: nurturing lived experience researchers and responsiveness – reflections and recommendations from an intersectional lens	4
Experience without essentialism: on ‘posting’ phenomenology	4
Mitigating the risk of imposter participants in qualitative research: evidence-based guidance for researchers and organisations	4
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	4
Decolonizing research: recommendations from a migrant home photovoice study	4
Cultural process considerations in a mixed methods investigation of social enterprise performance in Vietnam	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
Correction	3
Embodying sentipensar : exploring spatiality in qualitative research in psychology	3
Methodological considerations for interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in visual research: a practical guide to using collages	3
Analyzing constructions of disability in everyday talk: Methodological applications of discursive psychology	3
“You’re a kid, you don’t know where you are”: the voiced experiences of nonbinary youth navigating discursive realms of legitimacy	3
Unravelling the spectrum of victimhood within patriarchy: methodological self-consciousness in a constructivist grounded theory study with acid attack survivors in India	3
The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts	2
Probing in qualitative research interviews: Theory and practice	2
Refining semi-structured interview schedules as a foundation for criticality in grounded theory: Co-constructing migrants’ identities in India	2
The methodological and epistemic narrative of narrative productions	2
Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children	2
Ethical and methodological insights: an interdisciplinary study of letters written by Jews interned in the Drancy camp during the Second World War	2
Funeral services, interaction with grieving clients, and human-animal bond in animals’ Heaven Cemetery, Romania: an exploratory qualitative analysis	2
Two decades of research on Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis: a bibliometric mapping and research agenda	2
“My mind is not in my brain”: exploring consciousness with children using creative research methods	2
Children’s perceptions of animals in animal assisted interventions: a thematic synthesis	2

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach	2
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis	2
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURES TURN: an anticipatory infrastructure for qualitative methods	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
Queering migration, migrating queer studies: a discourse analysis of Traces of Displacement and (Un)Defining Queer	2
Technological reflexivity in practice: how MAXQDA, NVivo, and ChatGPT shape qualitative survey analysis	2
‘Talk amongst yourselves’: designing and evaluating a novel remotely-moderated focus group methodology for exploring group talk	2