Thanks Nancy, this is very useful.
I missed the original discussion relating to this due to e-mail problems so I'm not sure if this was discussed. One of the big problems I think is in attempting to get good, thorough reports of qualitative research to the audiences of the traditional medical journals. Although few journals would now openly say that they will not publish qualitative research, the constraints of small word limits and the limitations of peer review systems set up primarily for quantitative epidemiological designs often preclude publication of good qualitative research.
Probably the funniest (and most annoying) example of this that I have experienced was a paper that was rejected on methodological grounds, prior to external review, by an extremely well known medical journal. I was somewhat surprised therefore when the editor who reviewed and rejected the paper attended an introduction to qualitative research methods course that a colleague of mine went to a couple of months later!
Regards,
Jonathan.
Jonathan Mathers
Deputy Director
Health Impact Assessment Research Unit
Department of Public Health & Epidemiology
University of Birmingham
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Birmingham
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From: Dockter, Nancy E [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 August 2005 14:38
Subject: journals that publish qualitative studies
Here is a summary of responses I received to my recent query of SDOH
listserv subscribers for names of journals that publish qualitative
studies.
Qualitative Health Research was mentioned most often. It was described
as an international, interdisciplinary journal with a good reputation
and as "consistently the most rigorous and theoretically sophisticated
of them all." It can be accessed online through Sage Journals at
http://online.sagepub.com or http://qhr.sagepub.com.
Qualitative Research was also suggested. The writer noted that its focus
is on methods.
One person wrote: If the topic has to do with health, practically all
nursing research and clinical journals publish qualitative health
research - and many are open to research done by other disciplines as
long as it relates to health. Nursing Research, Research in Nursing and
Health, Western Journal of Nursing Research, Journal of Nursing
Scholarship, Qualitative Health Research, Scholarly Inquiry in Nursing,
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal
of Community Health Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Journal of
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, to name a few.
Another writer suggested these journals as well:
Journal of Educational Research
Journal of Higher Education
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Journal of Counseling and Development
Educational Researcher
The Review of Higher Education
Theory into Practice
Journal for the Education of the Gifted
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Educational and Psychological Measurement
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Theory and Research in Social Education
The Journal of General Psychology
Administrative Science Quarterly
American Educational Research Journal
Comparative Education Review
Qualitative Inquiry
Evaluation Review
Health Education Quarterly
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Another writer offered this helpful tip: 'PubMed' now has a qualitative
a user-friendly research filter that facilitates locating qualitative
studies in the database. For more information, go to:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_hsr_filters.html
Thanks to everyone who responded,
Nancy Dockter, Research Assistant
Office of Community-Based Public Health
Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 Markham, Slot 820
Little Rock, AR 72205
Ph.: (501) 526-6632
Fax: (501) 526-6620
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