International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Last updated ISSN 1609-4069
International Journal of Qualitative Methods is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in International Journal of Qualitative Methods concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Community Health and Development
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Data Analysis and Archiving
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1609-4069 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,429 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/international-journal-of-qu |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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