Qualitative Research Journal
Last updated ISSN 1443-9883
Qualitative Research Journal is published by Emerald Publishing Limited in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Qualitative Research Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Educational Research and Methods
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Qualitative research in health
Key facts
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1443-9883, 1448-0980 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 904 |
| Publishing since | 2001 |
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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