OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Qualitative Research is 16. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas	63
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	38
Doing research into Indigenous issues being non-Indigenous	34
Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	33
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations	32
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices	32
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes	32
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research	22
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research	22
Tupua te Kawa: Indigenous methodologies for non-Indigenous (and Indigenous) organisations	21
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	21
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups	20
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	19
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú	18
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work	17
Embodied graffiti and street art research	16
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	16