Qualitative Research Journals
This list was originally compiled from several sources: Judith Preissle’s List of Journals Friendly to Qualitative Work, posted to QUALRS-L on September 22, 1996; Linda Wark’s Qualitative Research Journals, a list published in The Qualitative Report, 1992 1 (4), Fall, updated October 1999 (https://www.scribd.com/document/69714439/Qualitative-Research-Journals – accessed 28 April 2025); The qualitative research report (https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/); and St. Louis University’s online listing: http://www.slu.edu/organizations/qrc/QRjournals.html (defunct). Corrected weblinks and updates have been made by contributor Judith Horne in 2024.
- Accounting, Organizations and Society
- Action Research
- Action Research Electronic Reader
- 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)
- Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science (Society for Cross-Cultural Research)
- Cultural Anthropology
- 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]
- Emergence: Complexity and Organization
- English Education (National Council of Teachers of English)
- Ethnography
- Ethnography and Education
- Ethnologia Europaea (Journal of European Ethnology)
- Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (Ethnography and Qualitative Research)
- European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy
- Exceptional Children (The Council for Exceptional Children)
- Families, Systems & Health
- 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)
- Feminism & Psychology
- Field Methods (formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods)
- Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [online]
- Gestalt Theory: An International Multidisciplinary 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 Action Research
- International Journal of Business Anthropology
- 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 Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-Being
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport
- International Review of Qualitative Research
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Journal of Aging Studies
- Journal of Business Anthropology
- 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)
- Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research
- Journal of Family Issues (National Council on Family Relations)
- Journal of Family Nursing
- Journal of Family Psychology (American Psychological Association)
- International Journal of Systemic Therapy (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 Marketing (American Marketing Association)
- Journal of Marketing Research (American Marketing Association)
- Journal of Marriage and Family (National Council on Family Relations)
- Journal of Mixed Methods Research
- Journal of Museum Ethnography
- Journal of Occupational Science (Association of Occupational Science, Inc.)
- Journal of Organizational Ethnography
- Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
- Journal of Popular Culture
- Journal of Retailing
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
- Journal of Women’s History
- Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
- Language Arts (National Council of Teachers of English)
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly (Society for Medical Anthropology)
- Methodological Innovations Online
- Narrative Inquiry
- Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research
- Nursing Research
- Nursing Science Quarterly
- The Canadian Journal of Action Research
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention [online}
- Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
- Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training (American Psychological Association)
- QRSIG: Newsletter of the AERA Qualitative Research Interest Group
- Qualitative Health Research
- Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy: A Monograph Series
- Qualitative Inquiry
- Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal
- Qualitative Research
- Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management (QRAM) Journal
- Qualitative Research in Financial Markets
- Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
- Qualitative Research in Psychology
- Qualitative Research Journal (Association for Qualitative Research)
- Qualitative Research Reports in Communication
- Qualitative Researcher
- Qualitative Social Work
- Qualitative Sociology
- Qualitative Sociology Review
- Qualitative Studies
- Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology
- Reading Research Quarterly (International Reading Association)
- Recherches Qualitatives (Association pour la Recherche Qualitative [ARQ]) [online]
- Research in Phenomenology
- Research in the Teaching of English (National Council of Teachers of English)
- Research into Higher Education Abstracts (Society for Research into Higher Education)
- 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)
- Schutzian Research: A Yearbook of Mundane Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- Social Research Update
- Sociological Perspectives (Pacific Sociological Association)
- 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)
- Terrain
- The Applied Anthropologist
- The Counseling Psychologist (American Psychological Association)
- The Elementary School Journal
- The Gerontologist (Gerontological Society of America)
- The Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal
- The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
- The Journal of Advertising
- The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
- The Journal of Educational Foundations (American Educational Studies Association)
- The Qualitative Report (Nova Southeastern University School of Social and Systemic Studies) [online]
- 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
- Western Journal of Nursing Research: An International Forum for Communicating Nursing Research
- Youth & Society