OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Aging Studies 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	60
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19, ageism, and the intergenerational twitter response	40
Dying alone and lonely dying: Media discourse and pandemic conditions	35
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	25
The twin faces of ageism, glorification and abjection: A content analysis of age advocacy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Family care across diverse cultures: Re-envisioning using a transnational lens	23
Advanced old age as a developmental dilemma: An in-depth comparison of established fourth age conceptualizations	23
This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling	20
Exploring rural older adult perspectives on the scope, reach and sustainability of age-friendly programs	17
From double to triple standards of ageing. Perceptions of physical appearance at the intersections of age, gender and class	16
A critical gerontological framing analysis of persistent ageism in NZ online news media: Don't call us “elderly”!	15
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	12
Assisted eating in late-stage dementia: Intercorporeal interaction	12
Doing age in the workplace: Exploring age categorisation in performance appraisal	11
“I do those things to pass the time.”: Active ageing during fourth age	11
Breaking the win-win narrative: The dark side of older people's political participation	11
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision	10
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	10
Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks	10
From invisible to extraordinary: Representations of older LGBTQ persons in Canadian print and online news media	10
Lived experiences of older adults living in the community during the COVID-19 lockdown – The case of Mauritius	10
Approaching retirement: A qualitative study of older nursing assistants' experiences of work in residential care and late-career planning	10
How young adults view older people: Exploring the pathways of constructing a group image after participation in an intergenerational programme	10
Do internalized age stereotypes mediate the relationship between volunteering and social connectedness for adults 50+?	9
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	9

Dementia care-sharing and migration: An intersectional exploration of family carers' experiences	8
Gender differences in family support to older adults and implications for social work in south-east Nigeria	8
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	8
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Facebook and older adults: Fulfilling psychological needs?	7
“It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me” – men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark	7
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	7
The role of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older adults' representations of aging and anxieties regarding one's own future	7
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	7
Winter of our contentment: Examining risk, pleasure, and emplacement in later-life physical activity	6
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	6
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	6
The stigma of dementia and the media: An analysis of reality shows about older people with dementia running a pop-up restaurant	6
Challenges related to providing care for parents with dementia across borders: A qualitative study on transnational carers in Oslo	6
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	6
‘Bodies that never grow’: How psychiatric understanding of autism spectrum disorders affects autistic people's bodily experience of gender, ageing, and sexual desire	6
Is ageism an oppression?	6
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	6
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline	6
“There were no words”: Older LGBTQ+ persons' experiences of finding and claiming their gender and sexual identities	6
Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper articles: A comparison between the perspectives of older and younger adults	6
Involving older people in inclusive educational research	5
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	5
Experiences and motives of retirement-aged workers during the first wave of COVID-19 in Slovenia: “This was the first time in 40 years that I really saw spring”	5
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	5
“Remember this picture when you take more than you need”: Constructing morality through instrumental ageism in COVID-19 memes on social media	5
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion	5
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	5
Anti-aging technoscience & the biologization of cumulative inequality: Affinities in the biopolitics of successful aging	5
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	5
Aging well in the community: Understanding the complexities of older people's dial-a-ride bus journeys	5
Constructing loneliness: Home care providers' notions of older adults' social needs and the possibilities of the home care profession to support social participation	5
Living solo at midlife: Can the pandemic de-stigmatize living alone in India?	5
Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults	5
Imagining feminist old age: Moving beyond ‘successful’ ageing?	5
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision	4
“I'm definitely not socially excluded!”- Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone	4
Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension	4
Social media discussions about long-term care and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
My home in later life: A phenomenographic study of older adults' experience of home	4
Equality according to whom? Debating an age-related restriction in the upcoming disability legislation reform in Finland	4
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	4
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	4
Choral singing and dementia: Exploring musicality as embodied and relational accomplishment	4
“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19	4
About me but without me? Older adult's perspectives on interpersonal communication during care transitions from hospital to seniors' residence	4
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	4
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	4
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	4
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	4

Temporality and the aging self. How subjective time is folding over its linear progression	4
From fact to meaning: Care practitioners' hermeneutic competence development in residential care for persons with dementia	4