Qualitative Inquiry

Qualitative Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers methodological issues raised by qualitative research in the social sciences. Its current editors-in-chief are Yvonna Lincoln (Texas A&M University) and Michael Giardina (Florida State University).^[1] The journal is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Qualitative Inquiry

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Yvonna Lincoln, Norman K Denzin
Publication details
History	1995-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	1.207 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Qual. Inq.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	QUINFS
ISSN	1077-8004 (print) 1552-7565 (web)
LCCN	95658119
OCLC no.	641771564
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal was founded by Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and was first issued in 1995.^[1][2] 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".^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

Qualitative Inquiry is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 1.207, ranking it 44 out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".^[4]