OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research is 6. 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
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	21
Tupua te Kawa: Indigenous methodologies for non-Indigenous (and Indigenous) organisations	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
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-19	15
Notes from a field: a qualitative exploration of human–animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project	15
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research	14
Examining the value of using naturally occurring data to facilitate qualitative health research with ‘seldom heard’ ‘vulnerable’ groups: A research note on inpatient care	14
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age	13
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network	13
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	13

Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	13
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	13
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	13
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	12
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports	12
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth	12
Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research	12
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections	11
Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography	11
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care	11
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study	10
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants	10
Managing neutrality, rapport, and antiracism in qualitative interviews	10
Told and untold stories: Finding new ways to represent the voices of culturally diverse learners through narrative vignettes	10
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’	9
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	9
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Book Review: Richa Nagar, Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability	9
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia	8
Ethnographer as creation: A Whiteheadian interpretation of the ethnographic subject	8
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation	8
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research	8
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women	8
Trust and temporality in participatory research	8
Unveiling racism through qualitative research: The politics of interpretation	7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	7
Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and cross-threading	7
It’s a sprint, not a marathon: a case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory research	7
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	7
Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections	7
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	7
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing	7
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry: de/composing the ghoulish hu/man gaze	6
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video	6
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort	6
Quest for Equity: Using multiple methodologies to promote collaboration and engagement in anti-racism education	6
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	6
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	6
“Under threat”: handling threats during ethnographic fieldwork	6
Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts	6
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China	6
“You have the right to love and be loved”: participatory theatre for disability justice with self-advocates	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
Addressing the binaries of regional/urban and boundaries of research methodologies in and through ‘slow’ research with women from non-urban communities	6
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews	6