OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	59
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	55
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	37
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	36
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	34
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	30
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	26
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	25
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	25
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	22
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	21
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	21
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	19
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	17
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	16
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	15
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	15
Transcript frame analysis: Thinking with Goffman about interview data	15
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	13
Recalibrating epistemic alignment: A researcher's journey toward methodological coherence	12
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers by Ugo Corte CorteUgo, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers. Chicago: Uni	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	11
Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews	11

Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	11
Richness, rapport, and rigor in digital interviews: Rethinking methodological presence through the “pocket-size ethnographer” positionality	11
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	11
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	9
Insider/outsider debates: Making whiteness visible in the Irish context	9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
Fieldwork in flux: Injury, disruption and the case for flexibility in research design	9
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
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	8
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	7
Building and sustaining equitable and inclusive transdisciplinary research teams: A case for in-person collaboration	7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	6
‘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 affect	6
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	6
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	5
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	5
Visual methods in disaster recovery research: Cultural and ethical challenges in implementation	5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	5
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	5
Screens and clouds: Methodological changes and ethical dilemmas when researching digital literacy socialisation of a toddler	5
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	4
Provoked perplexity in live methods	4
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	4
Researcher street race-gender in qualitative field work	4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production	4
Caring in qualitative interviews: A working model for interviews in the transformative paradigm	4
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4

Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-Alb	4
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community	4
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	4
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	4
Document analysis: How to make sense of legal and authoritative texts	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives	4