Comparer des méthodes

	Journal de recherche	Notes de terrain
Domaine	Méthodologie d'enquête	Méthodologie d'enquête
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	Late 19th century (formalized in 20th century)
Auteur d'origine	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Rooted in 19th-century anthropology and sociology; systematized by ethnographers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and later Robert Emerson et al.
Type	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative data collection and recording technique
Source fondatrice	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226206813
Alias	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	fieldnotes, observational notes, ethnographic notes, jottings
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.	Field notes are detailed written records created by researchers during or immediately after direct observation in a naturalistic setting. They capture what is seen, heard, and experienced — including behaviors, interactions, physical environments, and the researcher's own analytic impressions — forming the primary data source for ethnographic and observational studies.