Qualitative Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Research 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama100
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective48
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things40
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research38
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other37
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method28
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities28
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology24
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections24
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies23
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts21
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies20
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada20
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it19
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines17
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups16
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges16
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power15
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences15
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society14
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research14
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice14
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops13
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage13
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens13
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field13
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships13
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty12
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography12
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space11
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants10
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data10
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis9
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis9
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants9
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice8
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research8
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews8
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents7
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-197
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation7
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent6
‘It is always putting things into words, but now it was about feeling, truly feeling’: Affect Houses as a novel method to attend to of affect6
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void6
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league6
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings5
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities5
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens5
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries5
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation5
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court5
Provoked perplexity in live methods5
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research5
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space5
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher5
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England4
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community4
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children4
Beyond vulnerable populations: vulnerability, fieldwork and knowledge production4
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”4
Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-AlbújarYSládkováJ (4
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives4
RETRACTED: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”4
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study4
Disability and fieldwork: A personal reflection3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk3
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-193
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness3
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer3
‘Episodic participant observation’: Critiquing the ideal and offering an inclusive version of participant observation as a supplementary method in qualitative studies3
Drawing as a method of researching social representations3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research3
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography3
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews3
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers3
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana3
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women3
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research3
Solidarity as methodological praxis3
Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers2
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video2
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas2
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’2
Vibes-based methods2
‘Do I have to say I’m gay?’: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact2
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-192
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal2
Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology2
Exploring art-oriented interview: An arts-based methodological tool to elicit narratives2
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth2
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars2
Trust and temporality in participatory research2
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method2
Dilemmas in embodied methods: Towards holistic description in qualitative research2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings2
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city2
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK2
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing2
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care2
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work2
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes2
Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children’s artworks2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion2
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts2
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia2
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants1
Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections1
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
Vulnerability in procedural ethics: A study of 44 national research ethics guidelines1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis1
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry1
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
Desire-led futures of anti-colonial methodologies1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork1
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks1
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups1
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth1
The elephant in the room: Arguments against horizontalized line-by-line coding in qualitative research1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease1
Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development1
Exploring client-therapist relationships through joint interviews1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)1
The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research1
Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research1
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices1
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú1
Disrupting norms of time and talk: Email interviews as a neurodivergent-affirming method for ethical and rich qualitative research1
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times1
Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography1
An intersectional reflexive account on positionality: researching Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim lone motherhood1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-191
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