Online Reflective Essays
A Guide for Qualitative Researchers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2411907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mantas Grigorovicius (0009-0002-7805-3770) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/16094069251321256 |
| OpenAlex | W4407394978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
Conducting research online is becoming more popular among researchers, especially qualitative researchers. As qualitative methodology gains more credibility and popularity, it is important to continue expanding and improving the qualitative research toolkit. This article offers a guide for qualitative researchers on how to methodologically use online reflective essays to collect rich qualitative data to answer their research questions. When developing a study, qualitative researchers should consider a set of factors, including the research question, the sensitivity of the research question, the amount of reflectivity required to answer the research question, the length it takes to answer the research question, and the type of population that will be used to answer the research question. This article discusses these factors and provides practical design suggestions using examples from a previous study that collected data using online reflective essays
Data science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Essentials of interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Data quality in online human-subjects research
Evaluating the contribution of interpretative phenomenological analysis
Qualitative Methods in Health Care Research
The concept of ‘vulnerability’ in research ethics
Data Collection via Online Platforms
Drivers of Data Quality in Advertising Research
Turkers of the World Unite
How to Interview Managers? Methodical and Methodological Aspects of Expert Interviews as a Qualitative Method in Empirical Social Research
The Science and Art of Interviewing
Online data collection in academic research
Making Sense of Homonegativity
The ethics and implications of paying participants in qualitative research
The online survey as a qualitative research tool
The problem-centred expert interview’. Combining qualitative interviewing approaches for investigating implicit expert knowledge
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Leverage-Saliency Theory of Survey Participation
On the Ethics of Crowdsourced Research
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |