Qualitative Inquiry

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Inquiry is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health62
Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter41
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter37
“Don’t I Have a Say?”: A Critical Autoethnography on Choice and Essentiality-of-Being33
Romance, Relationships, and Rights: Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas in a Research-Based Theater Project With Self-Advocate Co-Creators and Actors33
The Research Interview: A Performative Reinterpretation28
Homecoming With Culturally Situated Philosophies of Being in Qualitative Inquiry26
‘A ticket to a very different show’: Poetic Ethnodrama Through the Eyes of Young Elite Gymnasts25
Learning From the Mess: What Happens in Social Media Elicitation Interviews23
Developing Methodologies for Co-Production of Knowledge: Data Production and Analysis in Community-Based Research Partnerships22
Keeping the Conversation Going: Rendering Each Other Capable While Creating Zines22
Autoethnography: An (Incomplete) Abecedarian Assemblage19
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies18
The Emotional Burden of Studying White Emotionalities: My Kuwento , My Testimony16
Between the Field and Elsewhere: Using Dialogic Collaborative Autoethnography in Ethnographic Restudies16
The Insider’s Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research16
Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England16
Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place15
Two Poems: “Upon Hearing Rebecca Thomas” and “Upon Viewing Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief’s Wet Dream15
Navel-Gazing Breaks the Heart Open: Autoethnography as Love-in-Action15
The Seven Ages of an Academic Man? (First)14
Three Refrains: Jumps in the Assemblage14
Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry14
The Persistence of Life and Play in በርበረ [ber-be-re] Transcripts14
Writing as Being: On the Existential Primacy of Writing for a Deaf Scholar14
Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Method Extended: Care Work Between Abstract Rules and Situated Practice11
Foraging the Future: Forest Baths, Engaged Pedagogy, and Planting Ourselves Into the Future11
New Possibilities for Spatial Research: Re-Animating the Built Environment Through Speculative Maps and Models11
Walking the Line: Borderlands and the Politics of Hiking11
The Researcher’s Facilitating Role in Stimulating a Constructive Group Climate in Online Focus-Group Interviews11
Beautiful Mis/takes11
Perhaps I am Still Waiting for Godot?10
Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness10
Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research10
Hope Inquiry: Vital Moves From the Gut in the Middle Cut Together10
A Good Name: Pseudonyms in Research9
Longing as Method: A Rant on Yearnings for Our World, Academia, and Utopian Futurities Beyond Liberalism(s)9
Walking While Aboriginal9
Kindred Rites of Sankofa: On Octavia Butler’s Histofuturist Approach to Artful Inquiry9
CORRIGENDUM to “Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism”9
The Art of Data Analysis: Disturbing Knowledge and Performing Critical Inquiry9
Transformation Through Practice: A Dialogical Exploration of Embodiment and Presence in Arts-Based Qualitative Research With Self and Others9
Quantum Creativity: Afracting New Materialism in the Anthropocene9
Walking in the Ivory Tower: Differential Belonging and the Architexture of Home9
Stitching Together a PAR Project: “Work Active”—Supporting the Journey to Work for People With an Intellectual Disability8
Indigenous Trans-Systemic Research Approach8
Talking to Artists: In-depth Interviews, Cultural Objects, and a Sociology of Art (History) Methodology8
What Do We Do When We Do Social Science?: Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping8
Erratum to ‘Playing With the Past: An Autoethnography’8
Situating Trust, Values, and Ethics in the Politics of Knowledge Production: An Epistemic Shift in the Co-Production of Studying Violent Extremism8
Escaping, Living, and Writing7
Norman Denzin and America7
Generative AI and Broken Futures7
Ethical Implications of Using Research-Based Theater to Challenge Hegemonic Narratives About Mental Health7
“Norman Denzin as a Firestarter”7
Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education7
Big Tent Talk: The Incalculable7
(Re)membering and (Re)claiming in My Mama’s Kitchen: A Decolonial Feminist Video-Cued Qi Ethnography7
Blurry Lines: Reflections on “Insider” Research7
In Memory of Norman Denzin6
“Sharing a Moment”: An Open Letter6
The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards of “Community Peer Research”: Reflections on Research Practice6
Collaborative Creative Engagements as Drivers for Re-imagining Classrooms and Pedagogies6
Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach6
Theory-Practicing in Critical Times: Viv Bozalek in Conversation With Kathrin Thiele, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Pınar Türer6
Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics6
Danger, Desire, and Disclosure: A Postqualitative Trauma-Informed Approach to the Ethics of Secrets and Emotion in Qualitative Research6
Working in the Key of Collaboration: Songwriting and Alternative Ethnography as Research Practice5
Weaving Different Discourses to Understand the Field: Mystory as an Analytical Tool5
Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation: At the Nexus of Home, School, and Hip Hop5
Global Trains of Thought: Coupling Derailment, Environment, Racism, Movement, Progress5
No Bull Here, Please: Ethical Demands and Expectations of Audiences5
Justice Can Never Arrive: The Opening of the Call to Social Justice in Qualitative Inquiry5
Togethering Situation in Diffractive Inquiry5
Pursuing the Post Philosophical New: Taking Our Thoughts for a Walk5
Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theater Act 15
Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts: An Introduction5
Ways That Qualitative Researchers Engage in “Technological Reflexivity”: A Meta-Synthesis4
Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing4
Positioning and the Thick Tangles of Spacetimemattering4
Theorizing Mishritata: A Queer Desi/South Asian Making Meaning of Multiple Minoritization in a Transnational Context4
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime4
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Play, Personae, Writer4
Variations of I: Setting the Poetic Tone for Student-Voiced Action Research4
Remembering Norman4
The Practice of Making Ethics : Methodological Entanglements and Speculative Governance4
Practicing Qualitative Research Under the “Big Tent”: Origins, Development, and Continuing Relevance of the Eight Big-Tent Framework for Qualitative Quality4
The Garden, Grief, and All That Is4
I Was Arriving: Exploring Healing and Knowing in My Own Creation(s)4
Dark Inquiries4
Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts4
Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry: Webinars and WEBing Sessions Become a Special Issue(s)4
Insect-Thinking as Resistance to Education’s Human Exceptionalism: Relationality and Cuts in More-Than-Human Childhoods4
Writing-With a Parasite Dis/Coloring One’s Skin: Toward Inquiries of Change4
Autoethnography as Social Science or as Social Study?4
Arts–Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method4
Hidden Contexts, Multilevel Comparisons, and the Postcolonial Location: Reconsidering the Documentary Method Vis-à-Vis Decolonization4
Interrogating White Men’s Allyship: Implications of Performativity for Qualitative Methodologies4
Writing Radically as Women With Virginia Woolf: Why?4
Body of Evidence: Time and Desire in Embodied Archives4
Ghost Writings4
Post-Academia: Life, Liberty, and Happiness?3
Qualitative Inquiry, Ontology, and the Question of Being: “We Are Not Yet Thinking”3
Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry3
Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying3
Accessing Embodied Knowledges: Poetry as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy3
Inquiry as Unthought: The Emergence of Thinking Otherwise3
Doing Academia Differently: Creative Reading/Writing-With Posthuman Philosophers3
Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring Methodological Consequences of Digital Research Workflows3
Autoethnography as Practice and Process: Toward an Honest Appraisal?3
Through the Lens of a Black Woman: Black Feminist Poetic Artful Inquiry in/With/for Qualitative Methodologies3
Writing a Hero: A Textual Struggle in Memory of Prof. Norman Denzin3
We Are Mathematical Beings3
Space in Between3
“What Do You Think Needs to be Done to Address Self-Harm?”: Centering the Perspectives of Youth Who Engage in Self-Harm Through Found Poetry3
Transnational Research Collectives as “Constellations of Co-Resistance”: Counterstorytelling, Interweaving Struggles, and Decolonial Love3
Research as Healing: Reflections of a Teacher Educator of Color on Critical Race Praxis3
Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios3
Brown Boxes: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Cultural Identity and Fluid Positionality3
Ethical Engagement and Relational Materialism: A Dialogue3
Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart3
Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden3
“Girmit Root and Pacific Shoot”: An Indo-Fijian Autobiographical Poetic Narrative for Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Girmit Story3
New Considerations for Sista Circle Methodology: Applications in Relation to Beauty, Femininity, and Place3
Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue3
How Many Intersections? Theoretical Synergy as a Rationale for Intersectional Biographical Analysis3
Breach: A Trans*textual Essay3
Constituting Phenomena Through Intra-Action and Intentionality: Is a Posthumanist Phenomenology Possible?3
A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College3
I Come From: Using Collaborative Auto/Biographical Poetry to Foster Transdisciplinarity and Build Inclusion3
The Return: Research-Based Theater With and for Ex-Military Personnel Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress3
A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing3
Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry3
Bricolage for Innovative Qualitative Social Science Research: A Perspective on Its Conceptual Hallmarks3
Design Anthropological Filmmaking for Automated Futures3
Preparing for the Research Ceremony: Indigenist Researcher Training3
Torments of Being Other3
The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions3
Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy Knowledge and Change3
Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism3
Common—Reading—Placing—Writing3
What Is It Like to Experience the Other in an Online Interview? Using Phenomenology to Explore the Online Encounter of the Other2
The Historical Methodological Foundation of Phenomenography2
Writing Through Pain: Ars Spirituality, the Black Atlantic, and the Paradox of Diasporic Belongingness2
“Darn It, This Pen Leaks! But Wasn’t It a Pretty Design?” Tracing Contours of the Aesthetic in One Young Woman’s Letters Home From Camp2
Songspirals Bring Country Into Existence: Singing More-Than-Human and Relational Creativity2
“I Wish I had the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man”2
Touching Text: Feeling My Way Through Research-Creation2
The Logic of Posthuman Inquiry: Affirmative Politics, Validity, and Futurities2
Walking as Political Utterance: The Walking Subjects and the Production of Space2
Accidental Creatures: Whitehead’s Creativity and the Clashing Intensities of More-Than-Human Life2
Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework2
Performance Autoethnography: EM Not Afraid to Utter Their Emotional Truth2
Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do?2
In Defense of Democratic Qualitative Research Teams: A Bourdieusian Approach to Critical Reflexivity2
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis2
Inviting Me In2
Critical Qualitative Research Leader and Friend: Norman Denzin as Teacher of Academic Activism2
Walking to the Pier and Back2
A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood2
Me-Search: Pursuing Race, Culture, and Gender in the Heart and Healing Work of Qualitative Inquiry2
Disrupting Anti-Blackness in Early Childhood Qualitative Inquiry: Thinking With Black Refusal and Black Futurity2
Becoming Ecological: The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers’ Agency in Arts Education2
“Connection With the Creator So Our Spirits Can Stay Alive”: A Community-Based Participatory Study With the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA)—Region 32
Inquiry as Resonance: Wiry Workings of Failure and Patience2
Presence as Politics in Qualitative Research Ethics: Feminist Engagements With “Risk” and Vulnerability2
Composing Cultural Connections: Exploring Tensions of Creating Composite Ethnodramatic Characters2
A Mile in Their Shoes: Poetic Inquiry for Qualitative Caregiver Research2
Embodying Affective Intra-Actions Online: Enacting Posthuman Methods in Virtual Spaces2
Posthumous Autoethnography?2
Reading Facebook After Norman K. Denzin’s Passing2
Striving for the Im/Possible “Home”: A Tale of a Foreign-Born Scholar in U.S. Academia2
She-Search: The Fertile Ground of Black Indigenous Methods (BIM) in Qualitative Inquiry2
For Norman (and me)2
The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site2
Thinking With/About/Through Music as Artful Inquiry: Collaboratively Performing the Onto-Epistemological and Ethical Flow of Inquiring2
Putting “Us” in Place: A Contrapuntal “Position” on Research Access in Over-Researched Contexts2
Embracing Vulnerability: The Critical Practice of Reflexivity as a Non-Pacific Researcher Using Indigenous Methodologies2
Gray Zone Identity: An Autoethnographic Journey of Chronic Illness, Diagnostic Uncertainty, and Autoimmunity2
Mobilizing Interference as Methodology and Metaphor in Disability Arts Inquiry2
Complicit in the Catastrophe: Practical Progress With Deleuze and Guattari1
Things That Tell: An Object-Centered Methodology for Restorying Women’s Longing and Belonging1
Coming to Terms With the Invective Latency of Ethnographic Relations: A Plea for (Auto)Ethnographic Positioning Analysis1
Yarning Up Relations: Enacting a Relational Ethics in Cross-Cultural Research-Based Theater1
Two Truths and a Lie: An Ethnodramatic Exploration of Resistance and Relationships Between Women in Our Current Political and Social Climate1
Relational Ethics Through the Flesh: Considerations for an Anti-Colonial Future in Art Education1
Emergence: (Un)Common Intervention1
Eat Your Words: An Artful Neuroqueered Fermented Inquiry1
Inquiring Artlessly: Encounter(ing)s With Monstrous Materialities From/Through the Threshold1
Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections1
Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi1
“Such a Queer Thing”: A Love Poem for Queer and Trans Young Adults1
Rethinking the Politics of Creativity: Posthumanism, Indigeneity, and Creativity Beyond the Western Anthropocene1
In Celebration of Norman K. Denzin: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Friend1
Hard Rain1
Be-ing, Do-ing, and Be-coming: Two Sister-Colleagues’ Musings on Art-Full Inquiry1
“Norman as Academic Shane1
Footprints After the Research Act1
Remembering Norm1
Methodology in Motion: Reflections on Using Appnography for the Study of Dating Apps1
Communal Conversations: Black Women World-Making Through Mentorship1
Toward an Ethic of Adjacency: Defining Critical, Arts-Based Phenomenological Breaching Experiments1
Intersectionality Meets Infrastructure: Recruitment Matrices and Identity Overflow in Just Research1
Understanding Disability Through Collective Poetry Writing1
The Archived Child: Strategies for Amplifying Children’s Contributions to History1
Owning the Lies1
Scenes From Masked and Anonymousi1
Ode to Museum Indians: In Honor of Ishi, James Luna, and the Dakota Pipeline Resistance1
Relational and Aesthetic Accountability: Considerations of a Research-Based Playwright1
Not So Fast: Research Without Using FXrbXddXn Data1
Country Calls: A Creative Practice of Deep Time Walking in Darug Country1
When Two Worlds Collide: Creatively Reassessing the Concept of a House Beyond the Human1
Cover Letter1
“You Think You’re Going to Get Better”: A Creative-Relational Inquiry Into Long Covid and Physical Activity1
On Good, Human, Autoethnographic Writing1
Intersectionality Pedagogy: Centering Black Women’s Knowledges, Voices, and Lives in Teaching and Learning1
The Day After: An Ethnodrama About Teachers’ Decision-Making Amid Silencing School Policies1
Walking in the Boboli Gardens in Florence: Toward a Transdisciplinary, Visual, Cultural, and Constellational Analyses of Medieval Sensibilities in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili1
Teddy’s Loquats1
Reintegration as Border Pedagogy: A Female Text1
Making the Just: Critical Inquiry for Different Publics1
Denzin’s Lighthouse1
Glasses You Put On1
Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry1
Hope for the Twin Cities: Poetic Reflections Amid Systemic Racism1
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research1
The Graphic and the Grotesque: Doing History With Your Dad’s Violent, Funny (and Possibly Racist) Comic Strips1
Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis1
Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation: Bringing Creative Writing Prompts and Vital Materialism into the Sociology of Futures1
Heirs of the Enlightenment?1
Image Technologies and Visual Methodologies: Reflections, Experimentations, and Future Redirections1
Balancing at the Beginning of Words—Revisiting the Idea of Open Awareness in Qualitative Research1
“Complicated” Grief1
Co-Presence and Contingency: Comics as a Methodological Innovation in Researching Automated Futures1
I Dream of Norman1
Research-Based Theater in the Pediatric Oncology Setting: Balancing Ethical Tensions1
Ambulant Methods and Rebel Becomings: Reanimating Language in Post-Qualitative Inquiry1
Pursuing, Practicing, and Portraying Qualitative Research: An Interview With Norman K. Denzin1
Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Influence of Changing Voices and Bodies on Legislative Spaces1
Traumatic Memories as Sites of Qualitative Inquiry and Healing: Testimonios of Patriarchal and Racial Violence1
Every Seashell Is a Story1
Spiderly Sympoiesis: Tensegral Tentacularity and Speculative Clews1
Red Thread Dancing|Feather Dreaming1
Undefining Childhood: A Time–Space Ethnography of the Enduring Child1
Hot-Spots, Diffractions, and Interstellar Poetry: Self-Directed Violence Research Meets Postqualitative Inquiry1
The Sound of Social Studies Job Searches: The Possibilities of Posthuman Listening1
Infinite Essence: Black Methodology, Artful Inquiry, and the Possibilities of Black Aesthetics1
Conducting Case Study Research to Address the Continued Crises: A Process of Learning to Employ Decolonial Perspectives to Produce a Flourishing Academic Lifeworld1
“The University Is Made for Those Who Can Climb the Stairs”: Dialoguing With Counterstories in Higher Education1
Meet “Me” in the Field(-Notes): The Selves and Self-Relations of Autoethnography1
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