OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Aging Studies is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Imagining feminist old age: Moving beyond ‘successful’ ageing?	60
Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship	40
“Stop acting like a child – you're immature”: The reversed ageism of practicing self-injury as adult women and the reclaiming of our bodies	25
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	25
Digital life as a cabaret, old chum: A dramaturgical analysis of older digitalised home residents and their wider caring networks	20
Who believes in cross-age friendship? Predictors of the belief in intergenerational friendship scale in young adults	16
Inessential objects: Cherished possessions in late life in Indian fiction	13
The qualitative embedded case study method: Exploring and refining gerontological concepts via qualitative research with older people	13
How young adults view older people: Exploring the pathways of constructing a group image after participation in an intergenerational programme	12
Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension	12
Is filial care for older adults in Nigeria threatened? Examining concerns from adult offspring providing care	11
Lived experiences of older adults living in the community during the COVID-19 lockdown – The case of Mauritius	11
“It's just so important that people's voices are heard”: The dementia associate panel	10
“I'm definitely not socially excluded!”- Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone	10
Exploring experiential differences in everyday activities – A focused ethnographic study in the homes of people living with memory-led Alzheimer's disease and posterior cortical atrophy	10
Gender differences in family support to older adults and implications for social work in south-east Nigeria	10
Queer temporalities and the life course: Trans aging in Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby (2021)	10
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	9
Applying person-centered research ethics in the design of dementia-specific measures	9
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	8
Turning age into agency: A qualitative longitudinal investigation into older jobseekers' agentic responses to ageism	8
The medieval biological clock? Gendered reproductive aging in medieval western medicine	8
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	8
“It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home	8
Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks	7

The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling	7
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	7
Distributed age(ing): Features of a material gerontology	6
Climate change and population aging: The role of older adults in climate change mitigation	6
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	6
Cared for masculinities in nursing homes - A material perspective on the intersectionality of institutional, spacial, gendered and corporal materiality	6
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care	6
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	6
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	6
Home-making or home harms: Perceived and experienced tensions between domestic materiality and ageing	6
Corrigendum to “Contradictions of hegemonic masculinity and the (hopeful) potential of old age and caring masculinity in Estonian society and in films A Friend of Mine (2011) and Tangerines (2013)” [J	6
Social death of older adults residing in nursing homes in Finland	6
“It's all about being a woman”: Intersections of multiple (dis)advantages experienced by older women in Tanzania	5
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on older residents' social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales	5
Cognitivism ageing: The Alzheimer conundrum as switched ontology & the potential for a new materialist dementia	5
Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research	5
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults	5
Wedded to the land? Representations of rural ageing masculinities in Irish culture and society	5
The image of old age emerging from place personalization in older adults' dwellings	5
The shadow of dementia: Listening to undecidability in ethnographic interviews with persons suspecting possible dementia	5
The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study	5
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady: A macabre tale of aging	5
Social construction of visual ageism on Iranian news websites during COVID-19	5
Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults	5
Being and becoming ‘a frail older adult’: Meaning-making and resistance through storytelling.	5
Editorial Board	5
The philosophy of collective memory in the novel “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro	4
“It makes me feel like good inside because I helped him do stuff” – Perceptions of psychological well-being in adolescents providing dementia care	4
Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults	4
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	4
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie	4
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision	4
Hattie and Sammler: Saul Bellow's older woman and older man	4
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying	4
Age-based entitlement: An ageist practice or a tool for combatting ageism?	4
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	4
Local knowledge and unliveable narratives: How insights from family caregiving narratives can inform locally relevant ageing policy	4
Representations of older people in Turkish prime-time TV series and Netflix original Turkish series: A comparative content analysis	4
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	4
Body talk and resilience: Aging men's experiences with mastectomy and prostatectomy	4
A qualitative study of older people living with HIV in Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support	4
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	4
The heroic challenge of retirement	3
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’	3
How do we understand ‘age’ and ‘aging’? Cultural constructions of the ‘aging’ experience in British English and Chinese from a linguistic perspective	3
A secret(ly) aging man who has no time to die: The spectre of aging in the James Bond franchise	3
Socio-spatial analysis of Australian residential care facilities: A case study of traditional, medium, and small household models	3
Living solo at midlife: Can the pandemic de-stigmatize living alone in India?	3
Dementia Friendly Communities: Micro-processes and practices observed locally in Queensland Australia	3

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”	3
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during COVID-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world	3
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	3
Ageing without senescence: A critical absence in social gerontology?	3
Editorial Board	3
Negotiating care and control: Pet euthanasia as phronetic action	3
Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women	3
Aging in the downtown corridor: Mapping the neighborhood experiences of Seattle's unhoused adults over age 50	3
‘Possibilities and challenges for older couples to continue ageing in place’	3
Do internalized age stereotypes mediate the relationship between volunteering and social connectedness for adults 50+?	3
Age enterprising: “Old” age on the make in Ghana	3
The crone and the hydra: Figuring temporal relations to aging code	3
Age, subjectivity and the concept of subjective age: A critique	3
Doing age in the workplace: Exploring age categorisation in performance appraisal	3
To begin the world anew: Epistolary lessons on aging into old age by 4th earl of Chesterfield	3
Dilemmas of intervention: From person-centred to alienation-centred dementia care	3
The legacy of marriage: Using food to challenge traditional gender norms in widowhood	3
Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life	3
Rooted in earth, rooted in community: Aging in rural houses of northern China	3
Moral aspects of filial concern for a parent living with dementia: Social imaginaries in contemporary narratives	3
“You gotta have your cry”: Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living	3
Aging together-with: The growing older of humans, non-humans and more-than-humans. A commentary	3
“Keeping our distance”: Older adults' experiences during year one of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Australia	3
Social engagement among older women in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic	3