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An analysis on how scholars from central/peripheral countries included in the qualitative research citations/publications is presented. Central/peripheral distinction is used to determine the trends in the globalization of qualitative research. With the comprehensive examination, this paper will shed light on the discussion of the patterns of globalization in qualitative research. Science mapping technique among bibliometric methods was employed. This paper is based on studies that published in journals that use the English word/term \"qualitative\" in their titles. The data for this study encompassed 10,637 documents published between 1995 and 2019 by 16,884 authors. Our findings reveal that qualitative research continue to be mostly North America- and Europe-centered initiatives. A similar situation is also observed for the most cited publications and the affiliated institutes oftheir authors. The studies focus primarily on the individuals' self and social experiences, social psychology, and their knowledge, attitude, and behaviors in education. The most cited publications and the institutions with the highest number of publications are all North America- and Europe-centered. Another finding is that six of every 10 qualitative research are about medical sciences.  \nKeywords: Qualitative research community, science mapping, bibliometric analysis, qualitative research field  \nDOI: 10.29329/epasr.2022.248.13  \n1Dr. Research Assistant, Department of Primary Education, Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey, ORCID: 0000-0002-3169- 6819  \n[Correspondence](Correspondence: mahmutbozkurt@sinop.edu.tr)[: mahmutbozkurt@sinop.edu.tr](Correspondence: mahmutbozkurt@sinop.edu.tr)  \n2 Asst. Prof. Dr., Department of Social Studies Education,, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey, ORCID: 0000-  \n0002-6209-1644, Email: [fatih.ozturk@erdogan.edu.tr](fatih.ozturk@erdogan.edu.tr)  \nIntroduction  \nQualitative research relies on analyzing and interpreting social experiences and concepts in their own context (Glesne, 1999) . Using this approach, researchers and practitioners endeavor to comprehend, describe, interpret, and develop innovative ideas about a context (Creswell, 2009) . The realistic nature of qualitative research loads the scholars who conduct qualitative research in diversified societies and cultures across the world with the task of transforming qualitative research into an approach suitable for understanding a particular culture, in addition to the purpose of understanding and interpreting practices pertinent to that culture.  \nQualitative research aims to discover and describe how they behave and how they make sense of what they do. It can be said that throughout the history, it has always been searched for this kind of knowledge. \"Understanding\" and \"interpreting\" within the framework of a scientific research is a relatively up-to-date attempt. Beginning with the 19th century, the search for scientific knowledge about human and society has notably intensified. In the decades following the long and successful story of science nature and physics, at the end of the 19th century, sociology and anthropology surfaced with the claim of studying societies and cultures by means of scientific methods. Comte aimed to discover the basic laws of society, just the way in physics, by propounding the distinction between social dynamics and social static (Coser, 1971) . Just after Comte, Dilthey argued that society and nature could be studied in two different ways. Dilthey’s separation of natural sciences and social sciences or humanities can be marked as a new beginning for qualitative research. 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