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

Article	Citations
“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen	50
Editorial Board	50
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	41
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	39
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	39
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	36
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	28
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	27
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	25
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures	23
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century	22
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	20
Women, religion and the war	20
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	19
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	18
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	17
Editorial Board	17
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	16
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	15
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	14
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	13
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	13
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?	13
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	12
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	11

Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
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
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review	10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	10
Controlling women's voices: Legal repression and the silencing of the #MeToo movement in India	9
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	9
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia	9
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	9
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	8
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	8
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	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
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	8
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	8
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	8
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	8
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye	8
Regulating female sexuality through honor killings: A symbolic violence perspective on a girl in the river	8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	8
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers	7
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)	7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	7
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	7
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	7
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	7
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh	7
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia	7
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	7
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	7
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs	7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	7
Voices of resistance and solidarity: A feminist critical discourse analysis of #AuratMarch discourse on Twitter	7
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	7
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	7
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	7
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	7
Between compliance and defiance: Negotiating femininity in Satyajit Ray's Pather and	6
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada	6
Exploring the links between patriarchy, informal networks, and corruption tolerance: Evidence from Kazakhstan	6
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	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
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	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
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	6

Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	6
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	6
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	6
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	6
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	6
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	6
Navigating overqualification: Syrian female refugees with university degrees in the labour market	6
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	5
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	5
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	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
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China	5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education	5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	5
Editorial Board	5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	5
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	5
What remains: Crisis, neoliberal capture, and care among Moldovan feminists	5
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	5
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	5
Behind the wheel and under the lens: How gender stereotypes drive perception in Türkiye	5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	5
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China	5
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	5
Democratic backsliding and the shifting dynamics of empowerment: The case of the All-Poland Women's Strike	5
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	5
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses	5
“She passed by”: How young Palestinian men talk about women's looks in public and private	4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	4
Editorial Board	4
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	4
Editorial Board	4
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis	4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India	4
Justice or tradition? Cross-national media framing of honor killings in India, Pakistan, and global outlets	4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	4
Weaving culture: Indigenous women of Northeast India as agents of tradition and identity	4
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	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
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka	4
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia	4
Gender discourse and femadvertising in India: A multi-modal discourse analysis	4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood 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
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule	4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	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
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	4