Qualitative Inquiry
Last updated ISSN 1077-8004
Qualitative Inquiry is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Qualitative Inquiry concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Art Education and Development
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1077-8004, 1552-7565 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,900 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,855 |
| Publishing since | 1995 |
| Journal website | qix.sagepub.com/ |
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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