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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	64
Editorial Board	54
“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen	50
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	43
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	35
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	30
Women, religion and the war	28
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	26
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	26
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	22
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century	21
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures	21
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	20
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	18
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	17
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	16
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	16
Editorial Board	16
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	15
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	15
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	14
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia	14
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	13
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	13
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review	11

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	11
Controlling women's voices: Legal repression and the silencing of the #MeToo movement in India	11
Editorial Board	11
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	10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	10
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	10
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)	10
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	10
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	9
The performance of masculinities in the 2025 presidential elections in Romania	9
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	9
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	9
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	9
The online discourse of Arab-Bedouin girls in Israel	9
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	9
Regulating female sexuality through honor killings: A symbolic violence perspective on a girl in the river	9
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	9
Reinterpreting religious authority: Women as Islamic jurists for addressing gender justice in Pakistan	9
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	9
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	9
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	9
Draupadi as the ‘Other’: A feminist reading through Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex	8
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	8
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	8
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia	8
The empowerment of rural Chinese women through E-commerce entrepreneurship	8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	8
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh	8
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye	8
Who is afraid of Hong's gender? Locating the unintelligible in post-#MeToo China	8
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	8
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	8
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs	8
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	7
Voices of resistance and solidarity: A feminist critical discourse analysis of #AuratMarch discourse on Twitter	7
Corrigendum to “So that he would not eat me’ — Navigating the single self amid shifting cultural grounds. A qualitative study of never-married Polish women's singlehood” [Women's Studies International	7
From hours to agency: Time use as a proxy for gendered work and well-being of women	7
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	7
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	7
Exploring the links between patriarchy, informal networks, and corruption tolerance: Evidence from Kazakhstan	7
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	7
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers	7
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	7
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	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
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	7
Between compliance and defiance: Negotiating femininity in Satyajit Ray's Pather and	7
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	7
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	6
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	6
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	6
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China	6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	6
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	6
The hidden chains: Exploring pathways of women trafficking in Bangladesh	6
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	6
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	6
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	6
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	6
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	6
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	6
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	6
Understanding involuntary return of Bangladeshi women migrants from Saudi Arabia: A qualitative study	6
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	6
Transgressing “docile bodies”: Women's poetry in Bangla little magazines, 1950s–1970s	6
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	6
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	6
Legalizing anti-gender ideology and civil society resistance in Turkey	6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	6
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	6
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses	6
Navigating overqualification: Syrian female refugees with university degrees in the labour market	6
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	5
“She passed by”: How young Palestinian men talk about women's looks in public and private	5
Impacts of mobile phone usage on the income of women food vendors in rural areas of Tanzania	5
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	5
Behind the wheel and under the lens: How gender stereotypes drive perception in Türkiye	5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	5
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	5
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	5
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	5
Democratic backsliding and the shifting dynamics of empowerment: The case of the All-Poland Women's Strike	5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China	5
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	5
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	5
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	5
What remains: Crisis, neoliberal capture, and care among Moldovan feminists	5
Editorial Board	5
Weaving culture: Indigenous women of Northeast India as agents of tradition and identity	4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	4
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia	4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule	4
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom	4
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers	4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	4
Gender discourse and femadvertising in India: A multi-modal discourse analysis	4
Editorial Board	4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	4
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty	4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles	4
Arts-based methods for resistance and decolonization in refugee women's research	4
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	4
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	4
Justice or tradition? Cross-national media framing of honor killings in India, Pakistan, and global outlets	4
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	4
Urinary incontinence in elite women's artistic gymnastics: A qualitative case study of athletes' perspectives and management strategies	4
The cost of children: Material and social deprivation among divorced women’s households in Türkiye	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey	4
Finding personal growth in single motherhood in Moscow in uncertain times	4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India	4