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 1 (2026) Volume 31 Issue 1 January 2026
Articles
University Lecturers' Narratives on Teaching ESL Online: An Ethnomethodological Study
Marlon D. Sipe and Jean A. Saludadez
Emotional Regulation Strategies Used by Indonesian Teachers in Thailand: Descriptive Qualitative Study
Didit Haryadi and Jeffrey Dawala Wilang
Emergent Methodologies: Quantum Qualitative Research
Nicole Weinberg, Gabriel Huddleston, Garrison Daly, and Molly Weinburgh
“Fairy-Tale Beginnings Are Often Pretty Bad.” Filling the Gaps of the Adoption Experience with Narrative Inquiry
Christina B. Gunther, Michelle A. Cole, and Robin L. Danzak
Negotiating Tradition and Modernity: An Ethnographic Study of Leadership and Collaboration in Acehnese Islamic Higher Education
Basri Basri, Mujiburrahman Mujiburrahman, Mohammad Nasir, and Muhammad Nazar
Expressing Experiences of Being Gender Non-Conforming in the “Ladies” Restroom Through Autoethnography-Based Research Poetics
Ellen D. B. Riggle
Student Mentees’ Perceptions of Research Proposal Mentorship Using the Critical Incident Technique
Hendrik Jacob Maruanaya, Corneles Rubenaser Apalem, and Karolis Anaktototy
The Role of Reflexivity in Collecting and Selecting LEDs in a Phenomenological Study
Pilar Folgueiras, Valeria De Ormaechea, and Amanda Aliende da Matta
In Pursuit of Culturally and Socially Respectful Research: Relational Theory and Practice
Gregory Smith, Mark Hammersley, and Leslie Stanley
Book Review
Heart Lessons for Creative Scholars: A Review of Patricia Leavy’s The Artist Academic
Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski
