OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Inquiry is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health	60
Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter	41
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter	35
Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England	30
“Don’t I Have a Say?”: A Critical Autoethnography on Choice and Essentiality-of-Being	28
Romance, Relationships, and Rights: Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas in a Research-Based Theater Project With Self-Advocate Co-Creators and Actors	26
The Research Interview: A Performative Reinterpretation	25
Homecoming With Culturally Situated Philosophies of Being in Qualitative Inquiry	23
‘A ticket to a very different show’: Poetic Ethnodrama Through the Eyes of Young Elite Gymnasts	22
Learning From the Mess: What Happens in Social Media Elicitation Interviews	22
Developing Methodologies for Co-Production of Knowledge: Data Production and Analysis in Community-Based Research Partnerships	21
Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place	19
Keeping the Conversation Going: Rendering Each Other Capable While Creating Zines	18
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies	16
The Emotional Burden of Studying White Emotionalities: My Kuwento , My Testimony	16
Autoethnography: An (Incomplete) Abecedarian Assemblage	16
Navel-Gazing Breaks the Heart Open: Autoethnography as Love-in-Action	15
The Insider’s Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research	15
Two Poems: “Upon Hearing Rebecca Thomas” and “Upon Viewing Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief’s Wet Dream”	15
Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry	14
Three Refrains: Jumps in the Assemblage	14
Beautiful Mis/takes	14
The Seven Ages of an Academic Man? (First)	14
The Persistence of Life and Play in በርበረ [ber-be-re] Transcripts	14
Writing as Being: On the Existential Primacy of Writing for a Deaf Scholar	11

New Possibilities for Spatial Research: Re-Animating the Built Environment Through Speculative Maps and Models	11
Walking the Line: Borderlands and the Politics of Hiking	11
Foraging the Future: Forest Baths, Engaged Pedagogy, and Planting Ourselves Into the Future	11
Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness	10
The Researcher’s Facilitating Role in Stimulating a Constructive Group Climate in Online Focus-Group Interviews	10
Perhaps I am Still Waiting for Godot?	10
Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Method Extended: Care Work Between Abstract Rules and Situated Practice	10
Hope Inquiry: Vital Moves From the Gut in the Middle Cut Together	10
Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research	10
A Good Name: Pseudonyms in Research	10
“Shame on You!”: An Autoethnography Poem About Being an Autoethnographer Who Writes Autoethnographic Poems	9
Walking in the Ivory Tower: Differential Belonging and the Architexture of Home	9
Kindred Rites of Sankofa: On Octavia Butler’s Histofuturist Approach to Artful Inquiry	9
Walking While Aboriginal	9
Transformation Through Practice: A Dialogical Exploration of Embodiment and Presence in Arts-Based Qualitative Research With Self and Others	9
The Art of Data Analysis: Disturbing Knowledge and Performing Critical Inquiry	8
Blurry Lines: Reflections on “Insider” Research	8
Situating Trust, Values, and Ethics in the Politics of Knowledge Production: An Epistemic Shift in the Co-Production of Studying Violent Extremism	8
Longing as Method: A Rant on Yearnings for Our World, Academia, and Utopian Futurities Beyond Liberalism(s)	8
What Do We Do When We Do Social Science?: Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping	8
Quantum Creativity: Afracting New Materialism in the Anthropocene	8
Indigenous Trans-Systemic Research Approach	8
Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education	7
Stitching Together a PAR Project: “Work Active”—Supporting the Journey to Work for People With an Intellectual Disability	7
Norman Denzin and America	7
Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach	7
Erratum to ‘Playing With the Past: An Autoethnography’	7
Danger, Desire, and Disclosure: A Postqualitative Trauma-Informed Approach to the Ethics of Secrets and Emotion in Qualitative Research	7
CORRIGENDUM to “Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism”	7
Talking to Artists: In-depth Interviews, Cultural Objects, and a Sociology of Art (History) Methodology	7
Escaping, Living, and Writing	6
“Sharing a Moment”: An Open Letter	6
(Re)membering and (Re)claiming in My Mama’s Kitchen: A Decolonial Feminist Video-Cued Qi Ethnography	6
Ethical Implications of Using Research-Based Theater to Challenge Hegemonic Narratives About Mental Health	6
Collaborative Creative Engagements as Drivers for Re-imagining Classrooms and Pedagogies	6
“Norman Denzin as a Firestarter”	6
Big Tent Talk: The Incalculable	6
In Memory of Norman Denzin	6
Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics	5
Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theater Act 1	5
No Bull Here, Please: Ethical Demands and Expectations of Audiences	5
Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation: At the Nexus of Home, School, and Hip Hop	5
Theory-Practicing in Critical Times: Viv Bozalek in Conversation With Kathrin Thiele, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Pınar Türer	5
Weaving Different Discourses to Understand the Field: Mystory as an Analytical Tool	5
Global Trains of Thought: Coupling Derailment, Environment, Racism, Movement, Progress	5
Pursuing the Post Philosophical New: Taking Our Thoughts for a Walk	5
The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards of “Community Peer Research”: Reflections on Research Practice	5
Justice Can Never Arrive: The Opening of the Call to Social Justice in Qualitative Inquiry	5
Togethering Situation in Diffractive Inquiry	5
Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts: An Introduction	5

Arts–Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method	4
Dark Inquiries	4
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime	4
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Play, Personae, Writer	4
Playing With the Past: An Autoethnography	4
Autoethnography as Social Science or as Social Study?	4
Positioning and the Thick Tangles of Spacetimemattering	4
Theorizing Mishritata: A Queer Desi/South Asian Making Meaning of Multiple Minoritization in a Transnational Context	4
Working in the Key of Collaboration: Songwriting and Alternative Ethnography as Research Practice	4
I Was Arriving: Exploring Healing and Knowing in My Own Creation(s)	4
Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts	4
Transnational Research Collectives as “Constellations of Co-Resistance”: Counterstorytelling, Interweaving Struggles, and Decolonial Love	4
Remembering Norman	4
Hidden Contexts, Multilevel Comparisons, and the Postcolonial Location: Reconsidering the Documentary Method Vis-à-Vis Decolonization	4
Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing	4
Ghost Writings	4
The Garden, Grief, and All That Is	4
Interrogating White Men’s Allyship: Implications of Performativity for Qualitative Methodologies	4
Writing Radically as Women With Virginia Woolf: Why?	4
Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry: Webinars and WEBing Sessions Become a Special Issue(s)	4
Writing-With ^{a Parasite Dis/Coloring One’s Skin: Toward Inquiries of Change}	4
Ways That Qualitative Researchers Engage in “Technological Reflexivity”: A Meta-Synthesis	4
Practicing Qualitative Research Under the “Big Tent”: Origins, Development, and Continuing Relevance of the Eight Big-Tent Framework for Qualitative Quality	4
Insect-Thinking as Resistance to Education’s Human Exceptionalism: Relationality and Cuts in More-Than-Human Childhoods	3
“What Do You Think Needs to be Done to Address Self-Harm?”: Centering the Perspectives of Youth Who Engage in Self-Harm Through Found Poetry	3
Writing a Hero: A Textual Struggle in Memory of Prof. Norman Denzin	3
Ethical Engagement and Relational Materialism: A Dialogue	3
Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue	3
When Home Is the Mouth of a Shark: Navigating the Academy as the Self in Black and Brown Skin	3
Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios	3
“Girmit Root and Pacific Shoot”: An Indo-Fijian Autobiographical Poetic Narrative for Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Girmit Story	3
Autoethnography as Practice and Process: Toward an Honest Appraisal?	3
Accessing Embodied Knowledges: Poetry as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	3
Preparing for the Research Ceremony: Indigenist Researcher Training	3
Common—Reading—Placing—Writing	3
A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College	3
Qualitative Inquiry, Ontology, and the Question of Being: “We Are Not Yet Thinking”	3
Variations of I: Setting the Poetic Tone for Student-Voiced Action Research	3
Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism	3
Research as Healing: Reflections of a Teacher Educator of Color on Critical Race Praxis	3
Bricolage for Innovative Qualitative Social Science Research: A Perspective on Its Conceptual Hallmarks	3
Design Anthropological Filmmaking for Automated Futures	3
Through the Lens of a Black Woman: Black Feminist Poetic Artful Inquiry in/With/for Qualitative Methodologies	3
How Many Intersections? Theoretical Synergy as a Rationale for Intersectional Biographical Analysis	3
Doing Academia Differently: Creative Reading/Writing-With Posthuman Philosophers	3
The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions	3
Breach: A Trans*textual Essay	3
Post-Academia: Life, Liberty, and Happiness?	3
Constituting Phenomena Through Intra-Action and Intentionality: Is a Posthumanist Phenomenology Possible?	3
Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry	3
New Considerations for Sista Circle Methodology: Applications in Relation to Beauty, Femininity, and Place	3
Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden	3
Inquiry as Unthought: The Emergence of Thinking Otherwise	3
Torments of Being Other	3
Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart	3
Space in Between	3
Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy Knowledge and Change	3
Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying	3
We Are Mathematical Beings	3
The Return: Research-Based Theater With and for Ex-Military Personnel Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress	3
A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing	3
Body of Evidence: Time and Desire in Embodied Archives	3
I Come From: Using Collaborative Auto/Biographical Poetry to Foster Transdisciplinarity and Build Inclusion	3