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 9 (2025) Volume 30, Number 9 - September, 2025
Articles
"Our River is Full of Trash and Many Fish Die" Children's Voices from Pasuruan, Indonesia: Discursive Strategies in Positive Discourse Analysis for Sustainability
Bambang Prastio, Ahsani Maulidina, Agung Rinaldy Malik, and Achmad Tantowi Azis
Emotion Labor as a Catalyst for Language Teacher Identity Renewal and Well-Being: An Autoethnography
Yasser Aminifard
Defining Marketing in the Digital Age: An Opportunity to Advance Marketing Thought and Practice
Norman Mafuratidze, Marius Wait, and Ilse Struweg
Becoming-With Teachers: An Auto-Theoretical Reading of Reflective Texts
Le Thanh Thao and Pham Trut Thuy
Ethnographic Dilemmas and Reflexive Thoughts of a Contemplative Jewish Anthropologist
Elazar Ben-Lulu Dr.
Book Reviews
"Incredibly Powerful and Well-Crafted" - A Review of Pandemic Death Discourse: Denial, Disparity and the Promise of Communication
Elda Kanzki-Veloso Ph.D.
How To Articles
Qualitative Content Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners to the Method, Theories, Epistemology, Ontology, and Rigour
Ingela Bohm and Joachim Sundqvist
Collaborative Reflections on a Practical Journey Through Transcendental Phenomenology Data Analysis
Tyler Kulp, Hissah Alzahrani, and Michele Parker