OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Womens Studies International Forum is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	39
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	31
Book review	30
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	30
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	29
Contested narratives of belonging: Zimbabwean women migrants in Britain	25
Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle in the media: Multiracial exceptionalism and the cult of slimness	22
Editorial Board	21
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	21
Women, religion and the war	19
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	18
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	18
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	17
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	17
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)	16
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	15
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	14
The European standard of gender equality in Turkey: Harmonization, cross-fertilization or reputational reforms?	13
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	13
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?	12
Editorial Board	12
Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy	12
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	11
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	11

Editorial Board	11
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	9
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	9
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	9
Barriers to abortion access in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	9
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	9
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	8
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	8
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	8
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	8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	7
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	7
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	7
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	7
Editorial Board	7
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	6
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	6
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	6
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	6
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	6
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden	6
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women	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
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	5
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	5
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	5
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada	5
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	5
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	5
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	5
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	5
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	5
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	5
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	5
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	5
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	5
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	5
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	5
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	5
Editorial Board	4
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	4
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	4
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	4
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	4
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	4
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	4
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	4

Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	4
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	4
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	4
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	4
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	4
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	4
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	4
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education	4
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	4
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	3
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	3
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	3
#MeToo, consent and prostitution – The Irish law reform experience	3
Editorial Board	3
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	3
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	3
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India	3
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	3
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	3
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	3
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	3
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	3
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	3
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	3
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	3
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	3
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	3
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	3
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	3
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	3
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	3
Post-script – When post-racialism fails: Meghan Markle and the limits of symbolism	3
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	3
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	3
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	3
Editorial Board	3
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	3
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka	3
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty	3
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work	3
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	3
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	3
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	3