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Journals for “Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qualitative Research SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 100% | 72.8 | #5,245 | 548 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Qualitative Research Journal Emerald Publishing Limited · Australia | 84% | 64.1 | #10,341 | 301 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Qualitative Inquiry SAGE Publishing · United States | 77% | 73.9 | #4,631 | 563 | 54% | Not recorded |
| 4 | International Journal of Qualitative Methods SAGE Publishing · United States · DOAJ | 68% | 82.2 | #1,454 | 1,258 | 100% | US$2,650 |
| 5 | International Journal of Social Research Methodology Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 70% | 68.7 | #7,521 | 313 | 59% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Qualitative Studies State Library & Aalborg University · Denmark · DOAJ | 81% | 40.2 | #28,170 | 66 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 7 | The Qualitative Report Nova Southeastern University · United States · DOAJ | 63% | 72.6 | #5,353 | 917 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 8 | International Review of Qualitative Research SAGE Publishing · United States | 67% | 53.6 | #17,030 | 205 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 9 | QMiP Bulletin British Psychological Society | 54% | 76.6 | #3,471 | 102 | 22% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography SAGE Publishing · United States | 58% | 67.3 | #8,394 | 165 | 54% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Qualitative Psychology American Psychological Association · United States | 60% | 61.9 | #11,691 | 180 | 21% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Qualitative Research in Psychology Taylor & Francis · United States | 54% | 74.7 | #4,254 | 150 | 59% | Not recorded |
| 13 | Methodological Innovations SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 61% | 60.9 | #12,344 | 135 | 100% | US$854 |
| 14 | Journal of Organizational Ethnography Emerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 57% | 55.0 | #16,136 | 141 | 55% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Ethnography SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 56% | 57.4 | #14,521 | 237 | 51% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Qualitative Health Research SAGE Publishing · United States | 40% | 79.7 | #2,250 | 848 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Qualitative Sociology Review University of Lodz Press · Poland · DOAJ | 54% | 51.9 | #18,141 | 141 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Methods in Psychology Elsevier BV · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 42% | 63.9 | #10,445 | 147 | 100% | US$2,060 |
| 19 | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research University of California Press · United States | 49% | 42.2 | #26,082 | 130 | 10% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Area Wiley · United Kingdom | 35% | 68.6 | #7,626 | 408 | 76% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal Emerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 38% | 58.3 | #14,012 | 134 | 38% | Not recorded |
| 22 | International Journal of Research & Method in Education Routledge · United Kingdom | 33% | 66.6 | #8,829 | 182 | 56% | Not recorded |
| 23 | The Ethnographic Edge Auckland University of Technology · New Zealand | 54% | 26.9 | #44,387 | 50 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 24 | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 29% | 70.0 | #6,811 | 671 | 19% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Sociological Research Online SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 31% | 65.2 | #9,641 | 354 | 66% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Qualitative Social Work SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 31% | 64.1 | #10,343 | 392 | 55% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Public Anthropologist Brill · The Netherlands | 41% | 44.3 | #24,129 | 87 | 43% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis · United States | 25% | 73.5 | #4,850 | 168 | 48% | Not recorded |
| 29 | American Journal of Qualitative Research United States | 31% | 62.7 | #11,217 | 219 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies SAGE Publishing · United States | 32% | 61.4 | #11,979 | 270 | 46% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
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