OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Womens Studies International Forum is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen	42
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	39
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	36
Women, religion and the war	34
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	33
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	27
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	26
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	22
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	21
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	21
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	19
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	18
Editorial Board	17
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	16
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review	16
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	16
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	15
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	14
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?	14
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	12
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh	12
Editorial Board	11
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	11
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	10

The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	10
Editorial Board	10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	10
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	10
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	10
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	9
How gender shapes the experience of running for office: A comparative study of women and men candidates from Bolivia's local and national elections (2020−2021)	9
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	8
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	8
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	8
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye	8
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	8
Editorial Board	8
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	7
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	7
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh	7
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	7
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs	7
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia	7
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	7
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	6
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)	6
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	6
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	6
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	6
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	6
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada	6
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	6
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	6
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	6
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	6
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	6
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	6
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	5
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses	5
Editorial Board	5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	5
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	5
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	5

Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	5
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	5
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	5
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China	5
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	5
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	5
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	5
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	5
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education	5
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	5
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China	5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	5
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka	4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	4
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	4
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	4
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	4
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia	4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	4
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	4
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule	4
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis	4
Editorial Board	4
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India	4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	4
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India	4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles	4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	4
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia	4