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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	90
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	49
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	35
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research	34
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	33
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	24
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	24
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	24
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	23
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	21
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	20
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	18
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	17
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	15
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines	15
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	13
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	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
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences	13
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	12
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	12
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial 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	11
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships	11
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	10
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	10
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	9
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	9
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	9
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	9
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	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’	8
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research	8
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research	8
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	8
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	8
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	8
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	6
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	6
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent	5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	5
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field	5
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	5
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	5
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	5
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	4
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
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 happens	4
Provoked perplexity in live methods	4
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
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4

Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4