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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	75
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	43
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	40
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	39
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research	38
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	27
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	27
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	26
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	25
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	21
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	21
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	20
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	18
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	18
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	17
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	17
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences	16
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews	16
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	15
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	15
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research	13
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	13
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice	13
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	13

Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research	12
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis	12
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships	12
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories	12
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	11
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	10
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	9
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research	9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	8
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections	8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	8
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials	7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	7
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	7
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	7
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange	7
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	7
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	6
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	6
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field	6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent	6
Provoked perplexity in live methods	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	6