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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama80
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology42
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method40
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things38
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research28
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective27
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities27
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections25
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies22
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other21
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research21
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines18
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts18
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies17
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada17
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it17
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society16
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice15
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power14
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups14
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges13
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field13
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis12
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage12
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories12
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops11
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography11
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants11
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners10
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?10
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world10
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship10
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data10
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis9
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
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis9
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia8
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants8
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation7
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice7
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials7
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy7
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research7
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-196
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent6
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange6
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis5
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher5
Provoked perplexity in live methods5
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries5
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research5
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents5
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space5
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children4
Participatory action research and oral history as natural allies in mental health research4
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings4
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”4
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England4
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study4
RETRACTED: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation4
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection4
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports4
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology4
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-193
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research3
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers3
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews3
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-193
Solidarity as methodological praxis3
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana3
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research3
Drawing as a method of researching social representations3
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women3
Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots3
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk3
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action2
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes2
Book Review: Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World2
‘Do I have to say I’m gay?’: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact2
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal2
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer2
Vibes-based methods2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method2
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work2
Binary blues: Exploring beyond dichotomized gender comparisons with a theory-driven approach2
Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children’s artworks2
Disability and fieldwork: A personal reflection2
Unpacking gatekeeping in medical institutions: A case study of access to end-of-life patients2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion2
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations2
Trust and temporality in participatory research2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas2
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video1
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care1
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-191
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks1
‘So what’s arts got to do with it?’: An autoethnography of navigating researcher positionality while co-creating knowledge1
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork1
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK1
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort1
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia1
Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research1
Participatory research in and against time1
Reading the represented city and society: signs, theory, and the dynamic interpretativeness of Peircean semiotics1
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory1
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars1
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth1
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples1
Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development1
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