OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Public Health is 2. 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
What you should know about RACISM-20 in the U.S.: a fact sheet in the time of COVID-19	38
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management	37
Rethinking disease preparedness: incertitude and the politics of knowledge	30
Poisonously single-minded: public health implications of the pharmaceuticalization of leishmaniasis in Colombia	29
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients	24
Recovering political knowledge in public health: learning from sexual and reproductive health work	22
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control	21
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health	21
Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	20
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia	18
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	16
The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life	12
Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia	12
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	12
Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia	12
The wages of peer recovery workers: underpaid, undervalued, and unjust	11
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media	11
Assessing the associations of inflammatory bowel disease and hepatitis B virus infections with two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization	11
Self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students: a cross-sectional case study	10
Royal Society report: what would a comprehensive evaluation suggest about non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19?	9
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	8
Effects of family socioeconomic status on college students’ physical activity: chain-mediated effects of parental exercise habits and family sports climate	8
Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C	7
“Anticipate the need”: a narrative analysis of service providers’ experiences working with sexual and gender minority youth in British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic	7

Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	7
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA	7
What’s the problem represented to be? A critical analysis of problem representation in news media and public health communication during a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, California, USA	7
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	7
Critical posthuman ethnography: grappling with human-more-than-human interconnection for critical public health	7
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	7
Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health	6
‘We were called guardian angels; Was that sincere? I do not think so’: retention of certified nurse assistants during the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada	6
How pharmaceutical companies misappropriate fat acceptance	6
Correction	6
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	6
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health	5
Beyond Asian ‘mask culture’: understanding the ethics of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore	5
“Digging in”: stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who consume cannabis	5
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	5
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	5
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers	5
Time, resourcing, and ethics: how the routinisation of organ donation after circulatory death in the NHS has created new ethical issues	5
The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research	5
Systematically omitting indoor air quality: sub-standard guidance for shelters, group homes and long-term care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	5
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	4
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement	4
Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information	4
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries	4
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%	4
‘COVID-19 vaccines are safe’: however, the issues of vaccine equity and data equity remain	4
Frailty goes viral: a critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 national clinical guidelines in the United Kingdom	4
A new conceptualization of the professional practice of environmental health: an Australian qualitative study	4
Hernia repair prevalence by age and gender among the Australian adult population from 2017 to 2021	4
2024 EIP abstract book	3
Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) to ease social loneliness and isolation in older adults	3
Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England	3
COVID-19 and techno-solutionism: responsibilization without contextualization?	3
RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II	3
Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’	3
Smellscape perceptions in hospital waiting areas: influential factors and semantic dimensions	3
COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions	3
Using Habermas’ theory of communicative action to transform sociological analyses of evidence-based policy	3
Social rights in relation to digitalization, mobile phone, and internet use – experiences of women in homelessness: a qualitative study	3
Assembling the socio-cultural and material elements of young adults’ drinking on a night out: a synthesis of Australian qualitative research	3
Collective eating and the management of chronic disease in Dakar: translating and enacting dietary advice	3
Building collective control and improving health through a place-based community empowerment initiative: qualitative evidence from communities seeking agency over their built environment	2
Working ‘upstream’ to reduce social inequalities in health: a qualitative study of how partners in an applied health research collaboration interpret the metaphor	2
How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults	2
Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption	2
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	2
#DiabetesOnAPlate: the everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting	2
Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes	2
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	2

Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease	2
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	2
Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation	2
The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: a qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood in the USA	2
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	2
The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change	2
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against COVID-19: findings from a international online exploratory survey	2
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	2