The Qualitative Report (ISSN 1052-0147) is a peer-reviewed, on-line monthly journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research. The Qualitative Report, the oldest multidisciplinary qualitative research journal in the world, serves as a forum and sounding board for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and other reflective-minded individuals who are passionate about ideas, methods, and analyses permeating qualitative, action, collaborative, and critical study. These pages are open to a variety of forms: original, scholarly activity such as reports of completed qualitative research, reports about qualitative research, and reviews of recently published books pertaining to qualitative research.
About The Qualitative Report
- The Qualitative Report was the first English-language, open-access, online journal devoted exclusively to qualitative research.
- The journal is ranked among the top ten open-access cultural studies journals indexed in Web of Science.
- Recent impact measures include:
- Clarivate Web of Science: 1.6 (80th percentile)
- Elsevier Scopus CiteScore: 3.6
- SJR Impact Factor: 2.28
- In the past year, the journal recorded more than 900,000 article downloads.
- Authors published in TQR represent 111 countries, reflecting the journal’s global readership and reach.
- TQR is distinguished as the only qualitative research journal published by a Carnegie-classified R1 university.
Current Issue: Volume 31, Number 5 (2026) Volume 31 Issue 5 May 2026
Articles
Gendered Politics of Pictures: How Images in a Pakistani English Textbook Homogenize Female Identities
Liaquat Ali Channa
Exploring the Stress Coping Strategies of Indonesian Elementary School Teachers: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study
Anak Agung Gede Agung, I Ketut Gading, Basilius Redan Werang, and Ni Luh Putu Agetania
Making Sense of Hospitalization: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of COVID-19 Patients’ Psychological Experiences in Indonesia
Mira Wahyu Kusumawati, Heni Dwi Windarwati, and Setyawati Soeharto
Exploring Speaking Skills Among Upper-Secondary School Students in Rojava: A Qualitative Inquiry of Challenges and Strategies
Civin Abdulrehman Segvan and Karwan Mustafa Saeed
Exploring Imagined Identities and Communities among Learners of English as a Lingua Franca: A Qualitative Narrative Inquiry
Özge Kuru and Enisa Mede
Book Reviews
Tensions, Characteristics, and Methods Surrounding Critical Autoethnographic Narrative: A Dialogic Review of Bedrettin Yazan’s Autoethnography in Language Education
Meryem Büşra ÜNSAL and Ufuk Keleş
Between Code and Context: Empowering Qualitative Researchers to Leverage AI with Rigor and Responsibility
Tito Dimas Atmawijaya
Reframing Digital Ethnography as Research-Creation: A Review of Exploring Digital Ethnography
Luis Miguel Dos Santos
