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Qualitative Research Journals

The following list includes journals that focus on qualitative research as well as journals receptive to publishing qualitative research. The list, derived primarily from (a) Judith Preissle's List of Journals Friendly to Qualitative Work , posted to QUALRS-L on September 22, 1996; and (b) Linda Wark's Qualitative Research Journals, a list published in The Qualitative Report, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1992 (updated October 1999), continues to be modified. When available, links to journal home pages have been incorporated into the list. In some cases, the links lead to the publisher's site; follow links to specific titles from there. Accounting, Organizations and Society Action Research International Advances in Nursing Science American Anthropologist (American Anthropological Association) American Behavioral Scientist American Educational Research Journal (American Educational Research Association) American Ethnologist (American Ethnological Association) American Journal of Sociology American Psychologist (American Psychological Association) American Sociological Review (American Sociological Association) Anthropology & Education Quarterly (Council on Anthropology and Education) Anthropology Today (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) BIOGRAF: Journal Not Only for Biographical and Reflexive Sociology (English version) Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research (occasional papers published by Ashgate) College English (National Council of Teachers of English) Communication Research Comparative Education Review (Comparative and International Education Society) The Counseling Psychologist (American Psychological Association) Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science (Society for Cross-Cultural Research) Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research Current Anthropology Discourse Analysis Online Discourse Processes (Society for Text and Discourse) Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk Educational Action Research Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (American Educational Research Association) Educational Insights (Centre for the study of Curriculum & Instruction; University of British Columbia) [online] Educational Researcher (American Educational Research Association) Electronic Journal of Sociology [online] The Elementary School Journal Emergence: Complexity and Organization English Education (National Council of Teachers of English) Ethnography
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Exceptional Children (The Council for Exceptional Children) Family Medicine (Society of Teachers of Family Medicine) Family Process (Family Process Institute, Inc.) Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies (National Council on Family Relations) Families, Systems & Health Feminism & Psychology Field Methods (formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods) Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [online] The Gerontologist (Gerontological Society of America) Gestalt Theory: An International Multidisciplinary Journal The Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal Harvard Educational Review (Graduate School of Education, Harvard University) Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care History of Psychology (American Psychological Association) Holistic Nursing Practice Human Organization (Society for Applied Anthropology) Human Relations International Journal of Education & the Arts [online] International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology International Journal of Qualitative Methods (International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education International Journal of Social Research Methodology International Review for the Sociology of Sport Journal of Advanced Nursing The Journal of Advertising Journal of Aging Studies The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Journal of Business Research Journal of Consumer Research Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Journal of Counseling & Development (American Counseling Association) Journal of Counseling Psychology (American Psychological Association) The Journal of Educational Foundations (American Educational Studies Association) Journal of Family Issues (National Council on Family Relations) Journal of Family Nursing Journal of Family Psychology (American Psychological Association) Journal of Family Psychotherapy (International Family Therapy Association) Journal of Health Communication Journal of Humanistic Psychology Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) Journal of Mark eting (American Marketing Association) Journal of Mark eting Research (American Marketing Association) Journal of Marriage and Family (National Council on Family Relations) Journal of Occupational Science (Association of Occupational Science, Inc.) Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Journal of Popular Culture Journal of Retailing
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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Journal of Women's History Language Arts (National Council of Teachers of English) Medical Anthropology Quarterly (Society for Medical Anthropology) Narrative Inquiry Nursing Research Nursing Science Quarterly Ontario Action Researcher [online] Phenomenological Inquiry (World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning) Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention [online} Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training (American Psychological Association) Qualitative Health Research Qualitative Inquiry Qualitative Mark et Research: An International Journal The Qualitative Report (Nova Southeastern University--School of Social and Systemic Studies) [online] Qualitative Research Qualitative Research in Psychology Qualitative Research Journal (Association for Qualitative Research) Qualitative Social Work Qualitative Sociology Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology Reading Research Quarterly (International Reading Association) Recherches Qualitatives (Association pour la Recherche Qualitative (ARQ)) [online] Research and Theory (National Council on Family Relations) Research in the Teaching of English (National Council of Teachers of English) Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la Recherche Feministe Review of Educational Research (American Educational Research Association) Roeper Review: A Journal on Gifted Education (Roeper School) Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Social Forces (Southern Sociological Society) Social Research Update Social Science & Medicine Sociological Perspectives (Pacific Sociological Assocation) Sociological Quarterly (Midwest Sociological Society) Sociological Research Online [online] Sociological Spectrum (Mid-South Sociological Association) Sociology of Education (American Sociological Association) Sociology of Health & Illness: A Journal of Medical Sociology Symbolic Interaction (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction) Systemic Practice and Action Research TAMARA: Journal for Critical Oganization Inquiry Teachers College Record (Teachers College, Columbia University) [online] Teaching Sociology (American Sociological Association)
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Theory and Research in Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies) Theory into Practice (College of Education, Ohio State University) Visual Anthropology Review (Society for Visual Anthropology) Visual Studies Voluntary Action: The Journal of the Institute for Volunteering Research Western Criminology Review (online) (Western Society of Criminology) Western Journal of Nursing Research: An International Forum for Communicating Nursing Research Youth & Society

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