OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Qualitative Methods is 29. 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
Exploring a Unique Mixed Methods Design to Understand How Music Appreciation is Affected by Acquired Deafness in Adults	1475
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Studying Portuguese Ethnic Media in Montreal: ‘Autosiociobiographie,’ Sibling Relations, Brotherly Love and ‘Emotional Episodes’ in Research	562
Co-Designing a Farm Safety Gamified Educational Resource With Secondary School Students and Their Teachers: Qualitative Study Protocol	311
Comics in Science and Health Communication: Insights From Mutual Collaboration and Framing a Research Practice	275
Research Protocol for Forging New Families in Contemporary Contexts: The Online Sperm Donation Project	193
Outside in: A Protocol for Qualitative Study of the Implementation of Immersive Technology in Dementia Care	179
We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities	138
The Crossroads of Real-World Contingency in Qualitative Research: Challenges, Lessons and Resilience	136
Making Systems Thinking Accessible for Qualitative Researchers: A Primer on Systems Thinking and Introducing Inductive Systemic Analysis	115
Vulnerability in Inclusive Research: Exploring Co- and Professional Researchers’ Experiences in a Community-Based Participatory Project on the Disability Family	98
“You Didn’t Have to Pay Me”: The Meanings of Monetary Incentives in Interview Research	95
Ethics in Qualitative Migration and Refugee Studies in Europe: From “Doing no Harm” to Reciprocity and Equity	67
Before We Talk-Story About Authentic Representation, We Need to Talk About Relationality, Ethics, and Integrity Throughout Research and Publishing Networks	64
Becoming an Insider: Positionality, Ethics, and Methods in a Turn to Institutional Ethnography in China	58
Creating and Evaluating an Arts-Based Online Interview Protocol to Explore Children’s Experiences of Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic	55
From Description to Transformation and Existence: Advancing a Three-Tier Logic of Inference in Tourism Research	53
Blending Western and Australian Aboriginal Approaches: A Study Protocol for Codesign of Bicultural Teleoncology Models of Care in Remote Australian Communities	46
Leveraging Podcasts as Academic Resources: A Seven-step Methodological Guide	45
Developing a Policy Package for Salt Reduction in Iranian Population: Study Protocol	43
Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research: Ethics, Reflexivity, and Research Practices	43
“Conversing” With Qualitative Data: Enhancing Qualitative Research Through Large Language Models (LLMs)	42
The Art of Seeing: From 2D to 3D Visualization in Situational Analysis	38
The Relational Interview: A Multi-Stage Qualitative Method for Capturing Relationally Produced Experience	38
Advancing the Speed and Science of Implementation Using Mixed-Methods Process Mapping – Best Practice Recommendations	38
The Applicability of Photovoice in Pseudo-total Institutions – Methodological Insights From an Exploratory Study on Physical Activity in Nursing Homes	35

Linguistic Characteristics of Texts: Methodological Notes on a Missed Step in Critical Discourse Analysis	34
Toward Access Justice in the Academy: Centring Episodic Disability to Revision Research Methodologies	33
Development of a Measure of Family Functioning for Hispanic Sexual Minority Adolescents: A Study Protocol for Measure Development	30
Voices Within: Undergraduate Students’ Journey in Ethnocultural Qualitative Research	30