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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama90
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things49
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research35
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research34
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method33
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other24
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections24
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology24
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities23
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective21
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies20
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts18
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada17
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines15
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it15
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies14
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences13
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges13
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups13
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice13
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power13
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage12
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society12
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field12
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research12
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis11
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants10
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens10
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography10
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty9
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?9
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data9
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space9
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis8
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia8
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’8
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews8
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research8
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research8
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants8
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void6
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-196
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction6
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation6
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 descent5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis5
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field5
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
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher5
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation4
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology4
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities4
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries4
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
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens4
Provoked perplexity in live methods4
RETRACTED: “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
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
Beyond vulnerable populations: vulnerability, fieldwork and knowledge production3
‘Episodic participant observation’: Critiquing the ideal and offering an inclusive version of participant observation as a supplementary method in qualitative studies3
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection3
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk3
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers3
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production3
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports3
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
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research3
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England3
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study3
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-193
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana3
Dilemmas in embodied methods: Towards holistic description in qualitative research2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts2
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography2
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city2
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-192
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
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method2
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews2
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion2
Drawing as a method of researching social representations2
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action2
Trust and temporality in participatory research2
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations2
Exploring art-oriented interview: An arts-based methodological tool to elicit narratives2
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings2
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal2
Disability and fieldwork: A personal reflection2
Solidarity as methodological praxis2
Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children’s artworks2
Vibes-based methods2
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas2
‘Do I have to say I’m gay?’: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact2
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth1
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort1
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’1
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples1
Vulnerability in procedural ethics: A study of 44 national research ethics guidelines1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-191
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry1
The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK1
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)1
Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices1
Reading the represented city and society: signs, theory, and the dynamic interpretativeness of Peircean semiotics1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks1
Desire-led futures of anti-colonial methodologies1
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies1
Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research1
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers1
Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work1
Exploring client-therapist relationships through joint interviews1
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times1
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’1
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