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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 30, Number 8 (2025) Volume 30 Issue 8 August 2025

Articles

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Learning How to Interview for Qualitative Research
Kathryn Roulston, Brigette A. Herron, and Caprial Farrington

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Open Science is Coming to Theory Construction: The Case of Document Analysis
Sarah R. Bostrom, Gina L. LeValley, Katrina Cooley, and Richard E. Niemeyer

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