Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare

Aims & Scope

Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and international forum for qualitative research in healthcare settings.

The journal is conceived as a site for dialog between researchers, academics, and healthcare practitioners; it allows an exchange between multiple parties in the health and social service professions, patients, and clients as well as senior and junior researchers who believe in the ethos of qualitative approaches.

Qualitative research is reflexive.

It takes into account that the empirical insights and theoretical propositions it produces are ontologically consequential for all those involved in the research process.

This journal publishes research that use many methods of data collection and numerous approaches to data analysis, ranging from systematic coding to mostly inductive, phenomenological, and narrative approaches.

Submissions can be either theoretical, empirical, or present state of the art reviews of important subject matter in the field, but they have to advance scholarly knowledge and contribute to research practice in an original way.

Each issue of Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare provides readers with peer-reviewed articles that examine: -The illness experience from multiple and varied perspectives- Constructions of health, illness, and healthcare that highlight relational and global contexts- Healthcare policies in various organizational and institutional settings- The pressures of neoliberalism on healthcare- Attention to the communicative dynamics of the patient-provider relationship- Narrative approaches to health

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

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

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Medicine, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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