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Peer-reviewed papers, theses, and dissertations whose authors coded and analyzed their qualitative data in Delve. This isn't a complete list. If your study is missing, please let us know and we'd be happy to add it!
By method
Thematic analysis
Thematic analysis is the method researchers use Delve for most often, and the studies span every field represented here, from nursing and oncology to computer science and environmental management. They appear in clinical journals, ACM proceedings, and a long run of doctoral dissertations, and they come from universities on every continent.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Research Square · 2026
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Journal of Urban Management · 2026
Montana State University · Education Sciences · 2026
Old Dominion University · ODU Digital Commons · 2026
University of Malaya · JOIV International Journal on Informatics Visualization · 2026
Mixed methods
Mixed methods studies use Delve for the qualitative strand and set the coded findings beside their survey, scale, or trial results. Public health, education, medicine, and psychology account for most of them, and many are national or multi-site surveys where interviews or open-ended responses explain what the numbers showed.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Journal of Urban Management · 2026
Montana State University · Education Sciences · 2026
University of Virginia · The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research · 2026
Jožef Stefan Institute · Journal of Transport & Health · 2026
James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026
Content analysis
Content analysis studies in Delve range from a handful of practitioner interviews to corpora of several hundred documents. Scoping and realist reviews are a distinctive use here: research teams in nursing, occupational health, and pharmacy have coded the included studies themselves in Delve rather than extracting into a spreadsheet.
University of Malaya · JOIV International Journal on Informatics Visualization · 2026
University of California, Irvine · Traffic Injury Prevention · 2026
Liberty University · Liberty University Doctoral Dissertations · 2026
Brigham Young University · Journal of Community Systems for Health · 2026
University of Exeter · BMJ Open · 2026
Grounded theory
Grounded theory researchers use Delve to move from open coding through axial and selective coding without losing track of the excerpts behind each category. The studies here come from education, public health, human-computer interaction, and business, and include work in npj Mental Health Research, BMJ Open, and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies alongside several dissertations.
Old Dominion University · ODU Digital Commons · 2026
James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026
University of Roehampton · Counselling Psychology Quarterly · 2026
Tufts University · Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice · 2026
Technological University of the Shannon · Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (PATT43) · 2026
Phenomenology
Phenomenological studies use Delve to stay close to participants’ own words while building toward a description of the experience. Most come from psychology, counseling, and health research: severe maternal morbidity, cardiac rehabilitation, parenting a child with medical complexity, help-seeking among police officers.
Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026
National Louis University · Digital Commons@NLU (National Louis University) · 2026
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
University of the Cumberlands · The Professional Counselor · 2026
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
Narrative analysis
Narrative analysis studies use Delve to code within each participant’s story and then compare across stories without losing the sequence of events that gives a narrative its meaning.
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
University of Central Florida · Current Issues in Education · 2025
Claremont Graduate University · CGU Theses & Dissertations (Claremont Colleges Scholarship) · 2025
Texas Woman's University · Texas Woman's University Repository · 2025
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis studies use Delve to code discursive features and recurring constructions across a corpus of documents, media, or interview talk.
Bath Spa University · Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy Global Perspectives · 2026
Northern Michigan University · Critical Sociology · 2025
University of the Philippines · Asian Journal of English Language Studies · 2025
University of Venda · International Journal of Language and Literary Studies · 2022
University of Michigan · University of Michigan (Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, Deep Blue) · 2022
By field of study
Education
Education is the field with the most published Delve studies, and much of it is doctoral work: dissertations from universities across North America, Europe, and Asia, alongside journal articles in education research and instructional science journals. Higher education is the most common setting, with teacher preparation and K-12 classrooms well represented.
Montana State University · Education Sciences · 2026
Old Dominion University · ODU Digital Commons · 2026
University of Malaya · JOIV International Journal on Informatics Visualization · 2026
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
Liberty University · Liberty University Doctoral Dissertations · 2026
Medicine
Medical research in Delve is usually a two-coder study published in a clinical journal, from Cancer Medicine and Frontiers in Oncology to the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. The studies cover patient experience, medical and surgical education, health services, and evidence reviews, and come from academic medical centers and universities on four continents.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Research Square · 2026
Mayo Clinic · Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice · 2026
The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center · Frontiers in Oncology · 2026
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital · Research Square · 2026
University of Glasgow · Research Square (preprint) · 2026
Public health
Public health studies in Delve tend to be team efforts, often with a survey alongside. They include national programme reviews run with health ministries, multi-site studies of healthcare providers, work with international health agencies on climate and health, and scoping reviews in BMJ Open. Health services, community health, and global health are all represented.
University of California, Irvine · Traffic Injury Prevention · 2026
Jožef Stefan Institute · Journal of Transport & Health · 2026
Yobe State College of Agriculture, Science and Technology · International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews · 2026
Tufts University · Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice · 2026
Brigham Young University · Journal of Community Systems for Health · 2026
Psychology
Psychology studies use Delve for interview-based work where the account of coding and reflexivity matters. They span clinical, counseling, and community psychology, and often form the qualitative arm of an intervention study or trial: mindfulness programs, mobile mental health apps, couples therapy, recovery from trauma.
ACAP University College · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · 2026
University of Virginia · The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research · 2026
University of Roehampton · Counselling Psychology Quarterly · 2026
Fielding Graduate University · Journal of Black Psychology · 2026
National Louis University · Digital Commons@NLU (National Louis University) · 2026
HCI & computer science
HCI and computer science researchers use Delve for the qualitative strand of user studies, and the results show up at CHI, ICER, and ESEC/FSE and in ACM journals. The studies cover accessibility, social media use among teenagers, virtual reality, developer tools, and software product management.
Old Dominion University · ODU Digital Commons · 2026
Jönköping University · Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction · 2026
University of Dhaka · Computer and Information Science · 2026
Capella University · ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Capella University) · 2026
Business & management
Business and management studies use Delve for practitioner interviews, often in a case study of one organization: a retail chain’s digital transformation, a federal tax authority, real estate agencies, CSR programs. About half are master’s or doctoral theses, from business schools in Brazil, South Africa, India, Thailand, and elsewhere.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Journal of Urban Management · 2026
James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026
Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026
Bellevue University · SSRN Electronic Journal (Doctor of Business Administration study) · 2026
Moshi Co-operative University · East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences · 2025
Communication & media
Communication and media researchers use Delve on texts as well as talk: political speeches, news coverage, influencer marketing, and consumer responses to social media posts. The studies come from Finland, Romania, the Philippines, New Zealand, and the United States.
Charles University · Charles University Digital Repository · 2026
University of Jyväskylä · Jyväskylä University Digital Archive · 2026
Harvard University · Journal of Health Communication · 2025
Babeș-Bolyai University · Styles of Communication · 2025
Texas Tech University · ThinkTech (Texas Tech University) · 2025
Sociology
Sociological studies use Delve for interviews, field notes, and documents, on subjects from police oversight and urban gentrification to community conservation and religious practice. Several are long-running projects with dozens of repeated interviews or hundreds of pages of field notes.
Central Connecticut State University · CrimRxiv · 2026
S P Jain Institute of Management and Research · Journal of Community Positive Practices · 2026
Politecnico di Milano · SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology · 2026
Northern Michigan University · Critical Sociology · 2025
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts · Journal of Media Journalism & Mass Communication · 2025
Nursing
Nursing researchers use Delve for patient and staff interviews and, increasingly, for evidence reviews, with work in the International Journal of Nursing Studies among the results.
Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026
University of Saskatchewan · PEC Global · 2026
McMaster University · International Journal of Nursing Studies · 2026
McMaster University · Frontiers in Health Services · 2026
University of Nairobi · Pan African Medical Journal · 2026
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