Golberg’s article on family research among most cited

“Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive,” published by Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg in the National Council on Family Relations’ Journal of Marriage and Family in 2024, was among the top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal that year.

Qualitative research is increasingly part of the methodological repertoire of scholars who study families. In this article, Goldberg and co-author Katherine Allen (Department of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech) examine contemporary trends, tensions, and possibilities for the interdisciplinary enterprise of qualitative research on and about families, while situating their collaborative approach as critical family scholars who pursue social justice work.