''Qualitative Inquiry'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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that covers methodological issues raised by qualitative research in the

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

. Its current editors-in-chief are Yvonna Lincoln ( Texas A&M University) and Michael Giardina (

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). The journal is currently published by

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. The journal was founded by Norman K. Denzin ( University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and was first issued in 1995. According to SAGE founder Sara Miller McCune, the journal would eventually grow into "a natural home for the discussions around these new ways of thinking, exploring the qualitative framework within a multidisciplinary approach".

Abstracting and indexing

''Qualitative Inquiry'' is abstracted and indexed in

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and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', its 2017 impact factor is 1.207, ranking it 44 out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".

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