OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Womens Studies International Forum is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community	30
Demystifying ‘diet culture’: Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online ‘anti-diet’ feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities	26
Young people's experiences of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in England and Canada: Toward a feminist framing of technologically facilitated sexual violence	21
Barriers to abortion access in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries	18
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work	16
Gender-transformative approaches in international development: A brief history and five uniting principles	16
The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change	16
The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya	15
Feminized forced migration: Ukrainian war refugees	14
Women, feminism, and art schools: The UK experience	14
To send or not to send nudes: New Zealand girls critically discuss the contradictory gendered pressures of teenage sexting	13
Return to work after prolonged maternity leave. An interpretative description	13
Two decades of theorising and measuring women's empowerment: Literature review and future research agenda	12
Challenging anti-carceral feminism: Criminalisation, justice and continuum thinking	12
A Southern European model? Gender regime change in Italy and Spain	11
An analysis of the respective contributions of husband and wife in farming households in Kenya to decisions regarding the use of income: A multinomial logit approach	10
Informality, inequality, and feminization of labor	10
A new wrinkle: Age, race and writing Meghan Markle	10
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women	10
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious	9
Gender inequality as a social construction in India: A phenomenological enquiry	9
Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa	9
At the intersection of gender and discrimination: Experiences of Congolese refugee women with social and cultural integration in the United States	9

Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	8
When home becomes classroom: The shifting roles of Korean immigrant mothers in the management of children's education during COVID-19 in the US	8
‘Business can't stop.’ Women engaged in prostitution during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Spain: A qualitative study	8
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden	8
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM	7
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	7
The evolving understanding of gender in international law and ‘gender ideology’ pushback 25 years since the Beijing conference on women	7
The effect of tourism on gender equality in the labour market: Help or hindrance?	7
Women and social media during legislative elections in Indonesia	7
Monarchy is a feminist issue: Andrew, Meghan and #MeToo era monarchy	7
The impacts of violence against women on choice and agency: Evidence from Ghana and Pakistan	7
Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia: Collaborative autoethnographies about modulations of control and surveillance in the neoliberal classroom	6
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection	6
“I could do that!”– The role of a women's non-governmental organisation in increasing women's psychological empowerment and civic participation in Wales	6
Gender-responsive language in the National Policy Guidelines for Immunization in Kenya and changes in prevalence of tetanus vaccination among women, 2008–09 to 2014: A mixed methods study	6
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	6
Abortion information governance and women's travels across European borders	6
Fatherhood in the time of war and peace: The experiences of demobilized male soldiers in northern Uganda	6
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	6
Fraternal natalism: demographic anxieties and the righteous state in Turkey	6
Hegemonic gender and Australian Women's mothering aspirations	5
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors	5
The relationship between electricity consumption and improvement in women's welfare in Africa	5
Health effects of the #metoo movement by gender: Public health implications of a social movement	5
The post-racial princess: Delusions of racial progress and intersectional failures	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
Effective criminal investigations for women victims of domestic violence: The approach of the ECtHR	5
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	5
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	5
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian	4
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka	4
Gender regimes, polities, and the world-system: Comparing Iran and Tunisia	4
The causes and the consequences of the patriarchal state: Evidence from Turkey	4
“The best thing about having Meghan join the royal family is that she actually has Black in her”: Girls making meaning around Meghan Markle, the monarchy and meritocracy	4
“Making visible the invisible”: Exploring the role of gender biases on the glass ceiling in Qatar's public sector	4
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices	4
Authoritarianism, violence, and varieties of gender regimes: Violence as an institutional domain	4
Locally specific matrices of domination: Towards a global theory of Intersectionalities	4
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes	4
Women with disabilities, and communities of care in wartime Ukraine: Conversations with disability and women's rights activists about feminist and disability solidarities	3
‘Care’ as camouflaging capitalism and obscuring harm: The user-generated pornography market and women's inequality	3
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles	3
Emotions, thoughts, and coping strategies of women with infertility problems on changes in treatment during Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study	3
Settlement, separation and forming new families: A multi-scalar intersectional analysis of Filipino family immigration in Saskatchewan, Canada	3
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave	3
Opposition to gender quotas in Sweden and Spain: Debates about gender equality in the film industry	3
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	3
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	3
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	3

‘Still travelling’: Access to abortion post-12 weeks gestation in Ireland	3
The interaction of gender regimes and long-term care provision across Europe: Ambivalent intersections of gender, class and ethnicity	3
Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway	3
Perceptions of gender roles and freedom among Iranian international students in Hungary	3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	3
Accountability for atrocity crimes in Ukraine: Gendering transitional justice	3
“I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros”: Black majesty and the fault-lines of colonialism	3
Women in Philosophy, Engineering & Theology: Gendered disciplines and projects of critical re-imagination	3
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
War, women and forced displacement	3
Women's agency and resistance in Russia's war on Ukraine: From victim of the war to prominent force	3
Birth control access experiences for members of an Indigenous tribe in the Gulf Coast	3
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces	3
Gender relations and the establishment of the LGBT movement in Timor-Leste	3
Traffic compliance effect of more women behind the wheel: Pride or prejudice?	3
Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector: The case of Equinor's social investments in Tanzania	3
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	3
Exploring the trauma of acid attack victims: a qualitative enquiry	3
The gendering of Ethiopia's agricultural policies: A critical feminist analysis	3
The mindset, lifelong learning, and gerotranscendence of elderly women in Taiwan: An exploratory study	3
Effectiveness of interactive television instruction in improving the business competence and income level of women smallholder okra farmers	3
What would others say? Exploring gendered and caste-based social norms in Central India through vignettes	3
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	3
Ecofeminist manifestos: Resources for feminist perspectives on the environment	3
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	3
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports	3
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	2
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education	2
Moving beyond the image: Theorising ‘extreme’ female bodies	2
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary	2
Countering anti-lgbti+ bias in the European Union. A comparative analysis of criminal policies and constitutional issues in Italian, Spanish and French legislation	2
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore	2
Theorizing the penal state: The darkside of gender regimes in the case of Spain	2
Emotional exhaustion in female health support workers in elderly care facilities	2
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women	2
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	2
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	2
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India	2
When the law meets feminisms: The shortcomings of contemporary prostitution policies across the European Union	2
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	2
Sexual life of Spanish women during the lockdown by COVID-19: Differences according to sexual orientation?	2
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	2
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	2
Reconciling work-family balance among Moroccan immigrant women in Spain: Socioeducational aspects	2
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category	2
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	2
Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle in the media: Multiracial exceptionalism and the cult of slimness	2
Defensive racism and Christian righteousness in the time of Trump	2
Women, religion and the war	2
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)	2
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty	2
Labour of love: Garment sewing, gender, and domesticity	2
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	2
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India	2
Focus on the fetus: The evangelical ethic, anti-environmentalism, and the spirit of neoliberalism	2
Conveying strength in emerging adulthood and during a pandemic	2
Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka	2
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	2
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	2
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	2
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	2
Assessing emerging trends of expansion and women enrolments in the higher education system in Mozambique	2
From Suits to Royals: The politics of Meghan Markle's racial ambiguity	2
Untangling the double bind of carework in green motherhood: An ecofeminist developmental path forward	2
Unreproductive citizenship: Social sterilisation of queer and trans people in Poland	2
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel	2
Multifarious experiences of women drivers post-car accidents: An urban community experience	2
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits	2
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice	2
The social representation of the Bedouin woman	2
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	2
The role of educational attainment and educational pairings in women's marriage behavior in Turkey	2
‘Although I had a failed marriage, I won't be a failure as a mother’: An analysis of Vietnamese single mothers' involvement in their children's schooling	2
Theorizing illiberal state feminism: Institutional dilemmas and political parallelism in China's gender governance	2