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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	67
Editorial Board	55
“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	36
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	32
Women, religion and the war	29
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	28
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	26
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century	24
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	23
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	21
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures	18
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	17
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	17
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	17
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	16
Editorial Board	16
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia	15
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	14
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	14
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	13
Editorial Board	13
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	11
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	11

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