I have a bunch of data from focus groups partially written into articles, and written into reports for the parties that financed it. Now, I want to publish as articles. What academic Journals in the fields of economics, media studies, marketing, etc will accept articles based on only interview data?
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There aren't any numerical standards for qualitative interviews, either within the field itself or in journals. If a journal routinely publishes qualitative work, then the reviewers will know this.
Speaking as a reviewer myself, I don't expect to see any explanations if a researcher has 15 or more individual interviews, and but I want to hear a justification if there are less than 10. If someone simply says their data were "saturated" with 10 or fewer interviews, I'd like a some evidence to back up that claim. (For focus groups, I personally would want some kind of explanation if there were 3 or less.)
But those just my own subjective standards.
Hi,
The results of interviews from focus groups usually cannot be generalized, so actually your results could be considered as qualitative. It all depends on the way you present these results, and how you organize your paper so that the data could be meaningful. If your paper is well organized and the results are well formulated, any journal could accept it for publication.
I suggest that you start by examining specific journals that interest you. In particular, you can limit a Web of Science search to a specific journal and then search for qualitative* as a key word (i.e., a term that appears in the title, abstract, or key words). This won't find every qualitative article in that journal, but it will show if a journal consistently publishes qualitative content.
There aren't any numerical standards for qualitative interviews, either within the field itself or in journals. If a journal routinely publishes qualitative work, then the reviewers will know this.
Speaking as a reviewer myself, I don't expect to see any explanations if a researcher has 15 or more individual interviews, and but I want to hear a justification if there are less than 10. If someone simply says their data were "saturated" with 10 or fewer interviews, I'd like a some evidence to back up that claim. (For focus groups, I personally would want some kind of explanation if there were 3 or less.)
But those just my own subjective standards.
I think that navigating https://doaj.org/ will offer many credible answers on relevant respected journals.
Regards,
CT
There are journals publishing both qualitative as well as quantitative researches. And there are journals publishing only qualitative research. I do agree with others. As a reviewer, I feel data analysis techniques used in qualitative research is also considered for publication.
Hi Mattias,
You might try this one:
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/
Have a great day!
--Adrian
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