| 1 | What Is Qualitative Research? | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2007 | 155 |
| 2 | What Makes Qualitative Research Qualitative? | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2007 | 52 |
| 3 | The Flexible Organization: How Contemporary Employees Construct the Work/Life Border | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2007 | 43 |
| 4 | Behavioral Indicators of Transformational Leadership in the College Classroom | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2011 | 41 |
| 5 | Precursors to College Student Burnout: Developing a Typology of Understanding | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2006 | 36 |
| 6 | Intergenerational Support and the Role of Grandparents in Post-Divorce Families: Retrospective Accounts of Young Adult Grandchildren | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2008 | 34 |
| 7 | “It's the American Lifestyle!”: An Investigation of Text Messaging by College Students | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2012 | 33 |
| 8 | From Silence to #WhyIStayed: Locating Our Stories and Finding Our Voices | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2016 | 26 |
| 9 | Creating the Water Cooler: Virtual Workers' Discursive Practices of Gossip | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 25 |
| 10 | College Students' Sexual Health: Investigating the Role of Peer Communication | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2006 | 24 |
| 11 | Towards an Understanding about Complexities of Alternative Media: Portrayals of Power in Alternative Media This paper was part of a larger dissertation written by the author at University of Missouri-Columbia. | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2005 | 23 |
| 12 | Part 1: The Determination of Web Credibility: A Thematic Analysis of Web User's Judgments | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2010 | 23 |
| 13 | “Once a Foster Child … ”: Identity Construction in Former Foster Children's Narratives | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 21 |
| 14 | A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2005 | 20 |
| 15 | Adoptive Parents' Framing of Laypersons' Conceptions of Family | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2011 | 20 |
| 16 | Interpretive Inquiry as Qualitative Communication Research | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2007 | 18 |
| 17 | Defining Philosophy of Communication: Difference and Identity | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2010 | 18 |
| 18 | Motivations to Disclose Chronic Illness in the Workplace | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2016 | 18 |
| 19 | “**it Rolls Downhill” and Other Attributions for Why Adult Bullying Happens in Organizations From the Human Resource Professional's Perspective | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2013 | 17 |
| 20 | Exploring Black and White Accounts of 21st-Century Racial Profiling: Riding and Driving While Black | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 17 |
| 21 | Academic Dishonesty Beyond Cheating and Plagiarism: Students’ Interpersonal Deception in the College Classroom | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2015 | 17 |
| 22 | What is Your Fitness Tracker Communicating?: Exploring Messages and Effects of Wearable Fitness Devices | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2016 | 17 |
| 23 | Understanding the motivations for using Tinder | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2020 | 17 |
| 24 | The Online Communication Course: The Challenges | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2008 | 16 |
| 25 | Relational Maintenance as Including the Other in the Self | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2010 | 16 |
| 26 | Tall Poppies in the Workplace: Communication Strategies Used by Envious Others in Response to Successful Women | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2011 | 16 |
| 27 | Constructing Marriage: Exploring Marriage as an Ideograph | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2010 | 15 |
| 28 | Let's Talk About HPV: Examining College Male Perceptions of the HPV Vaccine | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2012 | 15 |
| 29 | Training Versus Monitoring: A Qualitative Examination of Athletic Department Practices Regarding Student-Athletes and Twitter | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2013 | 15 |
| 30 | Why Are You Dating Him? Contemporary Motives for Workplace Romances | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 15 |
| 31 | “Who Are You Trying To Be?”: Identity Gaps Within Intraracial Encounters | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2009 | 14 |
| 32 | Feeling Caught: Adult Children's Experiences with Parental Infidelity | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 14 |
| 33 | Parental Socialization of Ethnic Identity: Perspectives From Multiethnic Adults | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 14 |
| 34 | Philosophy of Communication: Qualitative Research, Questions in Action | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2016 | 14 |
| 35 | Dialogue in the Lecture Hall: Teacher–Student Communication and Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Western States Communication Association 2001 annual convention. | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2005 | 13 |
| 36 | The Communication of Solidarity in Friendships among African American Women | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2006 | 13 |
| 37 | Quitting social media: a qualitative exploration of communication outcomes | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2021 | 13 |
| 38 | Narratives of Hospice Volunteers: Perspectives on Death and Dying | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2006 | 12 |
| 39 | Adult Child Perceptions of Communication and Humor When the Parent Is Diagnosed with Cancer: A Suggestive Perspective from Communication Theory | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2006 | 12 |
| 40 | Essential but Problematic: Faculty Perceptions of Media Literacy Education at the University Level | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2012 | 12 |
| 41 | The Breast Is (Always) for Sex: Breastfeeding Discourse in Response to May 21, 2012TIME MagazineCover | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2013 | 12 |
| 42 | Is It Necessary to be Clear? An Examination of Strategic Ambiguity in Family Business Mission Statements | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2013 | 12 |
| 43 | Exploring Family Discourses About Purity Pledges: Connecting Relationships and Popular Culture | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 12 |
| 44 | “Still a Boys Club”: Perspectives on Female Sports and Sports Reporters in University Student Newspapers | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2015 | 12 |
| 45 | Social Media and Active Shooter Events: A School Crisis Communication Challenge | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2017 | 12 |
| 46 | #NotOkay: Stories of sexual assault in the midst of the 2016 U.S. presidential election | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2018 | 12 |
| 47 | “There is a fine line between one’s personal life and professional one”: handling employee sexual harassment on facebook from the victim’s perspective | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2019 | 12 |
| 48 | “I Wanted Time to Myself and He Wanted to be Together All the Time”: Constructing Breakups as Managing Autonomy-Connection | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2008 | 11 |
| 49 | Negotiating the Model Minority Image: Performative Aspects of College-Educated Asian American Professional Men | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2012 | 11 |
| 50 | The “Ice Queen” Melted and It Won Her the Primary: Evidence of Gender Stereotypes and the Double Bind in News Frames of Hillary Clinton's “Emotional Moment” | Qualitative Research Reports in Communication | 2014 | 11 |
