''Qualitative Research'' is a bimonthly

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covering

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methods in the fields of

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and other

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. It was established in 2001 and is published by

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. The founding editors were Sara Delamont and P. Atkinson. The current

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are Bella Dicks, Karen Henwood, and William Housley (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2018

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was 3.141.

2022 retraction of a research note

On April 26, 2022, the journal published a "research note" by Karl Andersson, a PhD student and publisher of

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magazine ''

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'', with the title "I am not alone – we are ''all'' alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on ''shota'' subculture in Japan". The note received negative attention from academics and journalists in August 2022, prompting the journal to launch an investigation and remove the note. On August 22, 2022, the journal retracted the note, explaining that while it "has systems in place to flag ethical concerns raised by article submissions prior to review, those same systems do not fully extend to note submissions", that the "two peer reviewers who considered the note did not raise ethical concerns", and that Andersson explained that "the work described in this note was carried out as a piece of independent research in Germany, without institutional ethical oversight". The controversy prompted

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to investigate the case, and SAGE to review its submission processes. In a paper published in ''Publishing Research Quarterly'' on September 14, 2022, sociologist Casey Brienza argued that the retraction has "troubling implications for freedom of speech". After an internal investigation, the University of Manchester ended it's association with the controversial researcher in 2023.

References

External links

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