| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis | Qualitative Health Research | 2005 | 27,239 |
| 2 | Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies | Qualitative Health Research | 2016 | 4,227 |
| 3 | Code Saturation Versus Meaning Saturation | Qualitative Health Research | 2017 | 1,769 |
| 4 | Member Checking | Qualitative Health Research | 2016 | 1,719 |
| 5 | The Significance of Saturation | Qualitative Health Research | 1995 | 1,682 |
| 6 | Critical Analysis of Strategies for Determining Rigor in Qualitative Inquiry | Qualitative Health Research | 2015 | 1,505 |
| 7 | Choose Your Method: A Comparison of Phenomenology, Discourse Analysis, and Grounded Theory | Qualitative Health Research | 2007 | 1,456 |
| 8 | Determining Sample Size | Qualitative Health Research | 2000 | 1,348 |
| 9 | Beyond PICO | Qualitative Health Research | 2012 | 1,205 |
| 10 | Validity in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2001 | 1,130 |
| 11 | Qualitative Content Analysis: A Guide to Paths not Taken | Qualitative Health Research | 1993 | 876 |
| 12 | “Outing” the Researcher: The Provenance, Process, and Practice of Reflexivity | Qualitative Health Research | 2002 | 839 |
| 13 | Appraising the Evidence: Reviewing Disparate Data Systematically | Qualitative Health Research | 2002 | 803 |
| 14 | Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Applications to Health Research | Qualitative Health Research | 1998 | 771 |
| 15 | Rationale and Standards for the Systematic Review of Qualitative Literature in Health Services Research | Qualitative Health Research | 1998 | 737 |
| 16 | Descriptive Versus Interpretive Phenomenology: Their Contributions to Nursing Knowledge | Qualitative Health Research | 2004 | 707 |
| 17 | Getting the Focus and the Group: Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2000 | 689 |
| 18 | Within-Case and Across-Case Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis | Qualitative Health Research | 2003 | 651 |
| 19 | Health Information—Seeking Behavior | Qualitative Health Research | 2007 | 618 |
| 20 | Grounded Theory: An Exploration of Process and Procedure | Qualitative Health Research | 2006 | 606 |
| 21 | Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies | Qualitative Health Research | 2003 | 593 |
| 22 | Developing and Implementing a Triangulation Protocol for Qualitative Health Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2006 | 579 |
| 23 | Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda | Qualitative Health Research | 2004 | 543 |
| 24 | Using Reflexivity to Optimize Teamwork in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 1999 | 515 |
| 25 | Evaluating Interpretive Inquiry: Reviewing the Validity Debate and Opening the Dialogue | Qualitative Health Research | 2000 | 489 |
| 26 | Q Methodology and Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 1996 | 488 |
| 27 | “Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2020 | 484 |
| 28 | Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2007 | 482 |
| 29 | Matrix Analysis as a Complementary Analytic Strategy in Qualitative Inquiry | Qualitative Health Research | 2002 | 469 |
| 30 | “Data Were Saturated . . . ” | Qualitative Health Research | 2015 | 453 |
| 31 | Metasynthesis: The State of the Art—So Far | Qualitative Health Research | 2003 | 451 |
| 32 | A Description of Think Aloud Method and Protocol Analysis | Qualitative Health Research | 1993 | 447 |
| 33 | What Influences Saturation? Estimating Sample Sizes in Focus Group Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2019 | 445 |
| 34 | Superwoman Schema: African American Women’s Views on Stress, Strength, and Health | Qualitative Health Research | 2010 | 431 |
| 35 | A Guide to Field Notes for Qualitative Research: Context and Conversation | Qualitative Health Research | 2018 | 429 |
| 36 | Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Findings | Qualitative Health Research | 1996 | 387 |
| 37 | The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Doing a Secondary Analysis of a Qualitative Data Set | Qualitative Health Research | 1997 | 387 |
| 38 | Empowering Processes and Outcomes of Participation in Online Support Groups for Patients With Breast Cancer, Arthritis, or Fibromyalgia | Qualitative Health Research | 2008 | 378 |
| 39 | Understanding Illness: Using Drawings as a Research Method | Qualitative Health Research | 2004 | 367 |
| 40 | Power Relations in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2009 | 359 |
| 41 | Virtually He@lthy: The Impact of Internet Use on Disease Experience and the Doctor-Patient Relationship | Qualitative Health Research | 2005 | 353 |
| 42 | Theoretical Sampling and Category Development in Grounded Theory | Qualitative Health Research | 2007 | 351 |
| 43 | Protecting Respondent Confidentiality in Qualitative Research | Qualitative Health Research | 2009 | 338 |
| 44 | Approaches to and Outcomes of Dyadic Interview Analysis | Qualitative Health Research | 2010 | 335 |
| 45 | Postpartum Depression: A Metasynthesis | Qualitative Health Research | 2002 | 316 |
| 46 | Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? | Qualitative Health Research | 1997 | 308 |
| 47 | Clinician Acceptance is the Key Factor for Sustainable Telehealth Services | Qualitative Health Research | 2014 | 306 |
| 48 | Strengths and Challenges in the Use of Interpretive Description: Reflections Arising From a Study of the Moral Experience of Health Professionals in Humanitarian Work | Qualitative Health Research | 2009 | 304 |
| 49 | Photovoice as a Social Process of Critical Consciousness | Qualitative Health Research | 2006 | 301 |
| 50 | Living in a World of Our Own: The Experience of Parents Who Have a Child With Autism | Qualitative Health Research | 2008 | 300 |
