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The mission of the journal Qualitative Psychology® is to provide a forum for innovative methodological, theoretical, and empirical work that advances qualitative inquiry in psychology. The journal publishes articles that underscore the distinctive contributions that qualitative research can make to the advancement of psychological knowledge. Studies published in this Journal often focus on substantive topics, while also highlighting issues of epistemology, the philosophy of science, methodological criteria, or other matters bearing upon the formulation, execution, and interpretation of qualitative research.

Qualitative Psychology publishes studies that represent a wide variety of methodological approaches including narrative, discourse analysis, life history, phenomenology, ethnography, action research, and case study. The journal is further concerned with discussions of teaching qualitative research and training of qualitative researchers.

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Call for reviewers

Qualitative Psychology call for reviewers welcome reviewers with relevant qualitative expertise

Qualitative Psychology: Guidelines for reviewing manuscripts

Guidelines for reviewing manuscripts for the APA journal Qualitative Psychology.
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Methodological Retrospectives in Qualitative Psychology

Guidelines for writing and submitting methodological retrospectives to Qualitative Psychology

Special section proposal guidelines

The APA journal Qualitative Psychology encourages submissions of special section proposals from guest editors.

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Abstracting and indexing

Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Qualitative Psychology

Open access offered
Published three times a year, beginning in February
Average lag for online first 47 days
Average time to first decision 33 days
Rejection rate 84.4%
Impact factor 2.5
5-year impact factor 11.6
Psychology - Multidisciplinary 62 of 222
Journal citation indicator 3.42
Features
  • Publishes reflexivity/positionality statements
  • Journal diversity statement
  • Reviewer recognition via ORCID
  • Impact factor
More information is in the submission guidelines
ISSN 2326-3601
eISSN 2326-3598
Founded 2014