השוואת שיטות

	יומן מחקר פנים אל פנים	ניתוח תמטי רפלקסיבי
תחום	מתודולוגיית סקרים	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1981–1989 (systematic articulation in qualitative fieldwork literature)	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
הוגה השיטה	Robert G. Burgess (systematic research diary in fieldwork); Mary Louise Holly (professional journal writing)	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
סוג	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Holly, M. L. (1989). Writing to Grow: Keeping a Personal-Professional Journal. Heinemann. ISBN: 978-0435084592	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
כינויים	in-person research journal, fieldwork reflexive diary, face-to-face researcher journal, in-person reflexive log	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	A face-to-face research diary is a systematic reflexive log maintained by the researcher during in-person fieldwork. Unlike participant diaries, this is the researcher's own running record of observations, analytic thoughts, methodological decisions, and emotional responses captured during or immediately after direct, embodied encounters with participants or field settings. It serves simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument within qualitative research.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.