The Qualitative Report An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990
	By the Numbers

Since 1990, The Qualitative Report has been a leading source of information on the latest developments in qualitative inquiries. With the advent of the World Wide Web, The Qualitative Report's value has grown as thousands of scholars, practitioners, and students from around the world have discovered the wealth of ideas published in these virtual pages. The following are some of the numbers reflecting the widespread appeal of the journal.

Acceptance and Publication Statistics
December 1, 2007

The Editors and Editorial Board of The Qualitative Report (TQR) pride themselves in their unique approach to the development of scholarly manuscripts and the mentoring of academic authors. Our philosophy is predicated on supporting and nurturing authors as they and their papers progress through our editorial process. Instead of focusing on high manuscript rejection rates we have built our editorial reviewing and revision system around an acceptance of authors and a pledge to working with them until their papers have reached a high level of publishable quality. We hold that this dedication to our authors contributes to the overall improvement in the quality of published qualitative research articles and the skill sets and knowledge base of qualitative research authors. As a testament to this commitment to quality, the Soros Foundation-funded Open Society Initiative (OSI) awarded TQR a grant for Open Access Journals for our support of research by authors from developing and transition countries.

Since January 2002 we have received 550 original manuscripts from authors living in the United States, Puerto Rico, and 44 other nations from around the world. Even though we accept more that 88% of these authors who submit their papers to TQR for inclusion in our manuscript development process, we end up publishing slightly more than 36% of their papers in the journal. This lower publication rate reflects the rigorous editorial development program each author must successfully complete before our editors and board deem their papers ready for publication. Papers published in TQR therefore represent exemplary hard work and positive collaboration on the part of our authors, editors, and reviewers.

Submission Statistics by Year
December 1, 2007

Countries Report
December 1, 2007

Since January 2002 we have received 550 original manuscripts from authors living in the United States, Puerto Rico, and 44 other nations from around the world. Here is a list of those 44 countries:

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Phillipines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, and Uganda

Impact and Readership
December 1, 2007

According to Google, TQR is the eleventh highest ranked web page when searching for "qualitative research".

There are over 1,610 sites world-wide with links to the home page of The Qualitative Report. Here is the latest listing from AltaVista.

To date over 2,370 readers have subscribed to The Qualitative Report. If you would like to join them, please proceed to the subscription page.

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Editor
The Qualitative Report
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