The Qualitative Report Weekly “Story”
In October of 2008, a weekly newsletter component was introduced to The Qualitative Report, serving as a way to keep readers and subscribers updated with aggregated qualitative research information from around the world, as well as promote TQR Articles and Events on a consistent basis. Due to the popularity of the weekly, on February 20, 2012, The Qualitative Report “TQR” became the world’s first weekly qualitative research journal. By publishing TQR 52 weeks a year we were able to release two to three new articles per week allowing us to circulate accepted articles sooner and to bring new papers each week to our over 9,500 subscribers.
On January 1st 2015, The Qualitative Report went through another transformation. The academic portion of the journal transitioned back to a monthly publication for indexing and status purposes. It was during this time that a formal community “weekly” page was also developed to better leverage the resources and opportunities that TQR provides. The weekly community page now features select articles from the upcoming monthly journal publication, thus keeping the original weekly publication idea moving forward. With two distinguished platforms developed, TQR now has the ability to serve multi functions at a more effective and efficient level.
In October of 2017, TQR Weekly went through a website overhaul, creating a more interactive and engaging presence. This new website enabled us to publish a more efficient amount of aggregated qualitative research information to our audience. It is during this process that we also used the time to try and clean up and update old links and pages of past resources.
The Qualitative Report
Since 1990, The Qualitative Report (TQR) has served as a global learning community for qualitative researchers. As a journal, we give researchers an outlet to report their qualitative research and to reflect on how they conduct their work. We have trained a generation of editors and reviewers to provide effective and supportive mentoring to our authors. Our readers download thousands of TQR articles every day and authors cite these works at a rate that grows dramatically each year. As an online resource, we provide unique guides to qualitative research web sites, software apps, design and methodology texts, and teaching and learning qualitative inquiry resources. As a weekly news source, we share the latest developments in the world of qualitative research, new calls for papers and presentations, and the most recent employment openings for qualitative researchers and qualitative data analysts. As a scholarly conference, we gather each year to learn what is new and cutting edge and to celebrate our community as we appreciate what each of us contributes to the field of qualitative research and what participating in the world of TQR has meant to our own personal and professional growth. Please become part of the TQR community!
Editorial Statement for Academic Journal
The Qualitative Report (ISSN 1052-0147) is a peer-reviewed, on-line monthly journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research. The Qualitative Report, the oldest multidisciplinary qualitative research journal in the world, serves as a forum and sounding board for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and other reflective-minded individuals who are passionate about ideas, methods, and analyses permeating qualitative, action, collaborative, and critical study. These pages are open to a variety of forms: original, scholarly activity such as qualitative research studies, critical commentaries, editorials, or debates concerning pertinent issues and topics; news of networking and research possibilities; and other sorts of journalistic and literary shapes which may interest and pique readers.
The Qualitative Report is published by Nova Southeastern University. Its Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Ronald J. Chenail
Ronald J Chenail, Ph.D., is Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Qualitative Report, the world’s first online, open-access, English language, qualitative research journal he founded over 30 years ago. He is known internationally for his research and writing in qualitative research and family therapy. He has been part of 14 grants and contracts totaling over $6,500,000, published more than 140 publications including nine books, and given 200 plus formal academic presentations at conferences and meetings across the United States and around the world.
Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT), the flagship research journal of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage as well as Associate Editor with Family Business Review. In addition, he is an editorial board member of JMFT, Qualitative Research in Psychology, American Journal of Family Therapy, Contemporary Family Therapy, and Qualitative Social Work.
Dr. Chenail is Nova Southeastern University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. As the university’s chief academic officer, he works with NSU’s deans, vice presidents, faculty, staff, and students to achieve the university’s vision of becoming a preeminent doctoral research university. He is also Professor of Family Therapy in the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Department of Family Therapy. Dr. Chenail joined then Nova University in 1989 as an Assistant Professor of Family Therapy and Director of the Institute for Systemic Therapy. In the ensuing 34 years, he has served as a dean, an assistant to the president, a vice president, an associate provost, and now Provost in 2019.
Dr. Chenail earned his B.A. in History from St. Bonaventure University, his M.Ed. in Educational Psychology-Counseling from the University of Houston, and his Ph.D. in Family Therapy from Nova University.
Sally St. George and Dan Wulff
Sally St. George and Dan Wulff are a couple who have had the privilege of working together teaching, writing, presenting, and researching for three decades. Having scholarly backgrounds in education, social work, family therapy, and qualitative research, they have been with The Qualitative Report since the mid-1990s, serving as reviewers, editors, senior editors, and now Co-Editors-in-Chief with Ron Chenail. Their relationship with Ron began with a common interest in family therapy, evolved through working together at TQR, and now is a close personal friendship in addition to their professional ties.
Since 2005, they both have served on the Board of the Taos Institute, a global organization networking persons and programs in applications of social constructionist ideas. Sally is Professor Emerita and Dan is Professor Emeritus from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Their academic focus has been engaging in and teaching social work and family therapy practice. They are also invested in qualitative inquiry as it relates to practice. Together they developed Research As Daily Practice (St. George et al., 2015; Wulff & St. George, 2014) to help practitioners utilize and develop new knowledge based on a systematic examination of their practice questions that is in line with the ways in which they practice.
In retirement from the University of Calgary, they are as busy as ever, finding particular pleasure in helping mentor new qualitative researchers and family therapists. Reaching out through their TQR reviewing and editing to a worldwide audience for qualitative research is their current passion. They sense the shortage of resources that qualitative researchers have in marginalized parts of the world and find excitement in (1) trying to find better ways to widely share what is known about qualitative research, and (2) help spread the local and Indigenous wisdom that already exists all around the world. They see our current time to be rich with potential to connect globally through qualitative inquiry.St. George, S., Wulff, D., & Tomm, K. (2015). Research As Daily Practice. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 34(2), 3-14.
Wulff, D., & St. George, S. (2014). Research as daily practice. In G. Simon & A. Chard (Eds.), Systemic inquiry: Innovations in reflexive practice research (pp. 292-308). Everything is Connected Press.
Index and Listing Information
The Qualitative Report is indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar, ProQuest, Gale’s Academic OneFile, EBSCO Open Access Journals, Open Science Directory, SocioSite, and All Academic. The Qualitative Report is listed in Ulrich’s Periodicals Computer Library Center, The University of Georgia’s Libraries Electronic Journal Locator, Open J-Gate, the World Wide Web Virtual Library‘s Social Sciences Electronic Journals, e-journals.org, Intute: Social Sciences, and theDirectory of Open Access Journals. In addition, The Qualitative Report is a proud member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.