
Academic Journal
Q3International Journal of Action Research
About International Journal of Action Research
International Journal of Action Research is a scholarly journal published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q3, with an SJR of 0.216 and H-index of 16.
Coverage: 2009-2025. Research categories: Sociology and Political Science (Q3); Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Q4).
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Topics in published research
Participatory Visual Research Methods; Evaluation and Performance Assessment; Management and Organizational Studies; Community Health and Development; Innovation, Technology, and Society; Complex Systems and Decision Making.
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Recent Research Articles
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William R. Torbert’s Legacy in Transforming Doctoral Education through Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry. An Intergenerational tribute
Carol Gorelick, Danny van Montfort, Freek Sanders, Tobias Fehr-Bosshard et al.
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.02Editorial
Lone Hersted
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.01Participatory and Empowering Community Dialogue Spaces: Exploring Local Meanings of Life Quality in a Danish Community-Health Partnership
Nicolas Tristan Munk
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.06Strengthening the social fabric: Action research for commoning, solidarity, mutual learning and sustainable change
Lone Hersted
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.07Rethinking Complexity and Facilitation in Action Research for Territorial Development: Insights from the Etorkizuna Eraikiz Think Tank in the Basque Country
Mikel Gaztañaga Cinto
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.05Strengthening Communication and Participation among Women Smallholder Farmers: A Participatory Research Project in Yumbel, Chile
Amparo González Jara
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.04Richard Ennals: An Itinerant Scholar Who Found His Home in Action Research
Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v22i1.03University-City learning for sustainable and inclusive urban futures: Two community-based action research experiences in Europe
Beñat Flores-Puga, John Andersen, Aitor Zuberogoitia, Martin Severin Frandsen et al.
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.05Introduction: Pushing boundaries to enhance the reach and scope of action research. Special Issue of the International Journal of Action Research
Malida Mooken, Patricia Canto-Farachala
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.01Shared life, solidarity action, inter-knowledge research: A narrative of three processes in Mexico that question Participatory Action Research
María Eugenia Sánchez
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.04“Connect. Act. Decenter”. An interview with Isabel Heck on the 2024 IJAR Symposium Artikel-Sidebar
Patricia Canto-Farachala, Malida Mooken, Isabel Heck
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.07Methodological perspectives on composite narrative cases in action research
Søren Frimann, Jan Rohwedder, Anne-Birgitte Nyhus Rohwedder, Deidre Le Fevre et al.
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.02Towards scaling up, out and deep: Debriefing youth experiences of youth participatory action research and citizen social science
Aina Landsverk Hagen, Hilde Rønnaug Kitterød
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.03Care as collective work: Transforming public response to family caregiving through Participatory Action Research
Maddalena Gambirasio, Giuseppe Scaratti, Giosuè Ruggeri
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i3.06New cartographies of inclusive education through narratives and action research
Ignacio Calderón-Almendros, Teresa Rascón-Gómez, Luz Mojtar-Mendieta, Jesús Moreno-Parra et al.
2025-12-09 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i2.04Louise Phillips (2025). Embracing the Messy Complexities of Co-Creation: A Dialogic Approach to Participatory Qualitative Inquiry
Carol Gorelick
2025-12-09 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i2.07Systematisation of Experiences and its contribution to Action Research: Transformative knowledge in a process of territorial development in Latin America
Erica Porras, Mariana Chrestia
2025-12-09 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i2.03Editorial: Action Research in a Fluent and Unpredictable World
Lone Hersted
2025-12-09 · DOI: 10.3224/ijar.v21i2.01Reviews
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