Departures in Critical Qualitative Research

Aims & Scope

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (Departures) publishes peer reviewed, innovative, experimental, aesthetic, and provocative works on the theories, practices, and possibilities of critical qualitative research.

We welcome and showcase state of the art work in performative writing, performance texts, fictocriticism, creative nonfiction, photo essays, short stories, poetry, personal narrative, autoethnography, and other arts-based critical research.

We are deeply committed to publishing interdisciplinary qualitative work that engages postcolonial and transnational perspectives in both local and global contexts.

To this end, Departures seeks to publish critical and innovative qualitative work on contemporary political and social justice issues such as climate change, food insecurity, the refugee crisis, #BlackLivesMatter, #metoo, immigration, DACA, LGBTQ rights, indigenous rights, among others.

We actively solicit and invite participation from minority, international, women of color, and immigrant scholars who are doing innovative, poetic, autoethnographic, decolonial, fictional, and other creative work from their various contexts, positions, and locations.

We welcome and encourage informal queries.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.169

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23156

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	28

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Black Feminist Thought as Oppositional Knowledge

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Patricia Hill

• Geotheorizing Black/Land

  Citation: 64

  Authors: Eve, Mistinguette, Allison M., Tavia, Brian K.

• Black Feminist Thought as Methodology

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Ashley, Valerie, Tanja, Ryann, Arianna

• Towards an Interdisciplinary Field of Black Girlhood Studies

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Tammy C., Durell M., Jessica L., Porshé R.

• Envisioning Black Girl Futures

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Aria S.

• Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Amardo, Mohan J., Elizabeth F.

• Black Feminist Reflections on Activism

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Karla D.

• Staging Black Girl Utopias

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Ruth Nicole, Durell Maurice, Porshe R., Dominique C., Porsha, Jessica L.

• Respect My Ratchet

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Montinique Denice

• Bad Feelings

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Ghassan

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