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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Science, society, and policy in the face of uncertainty: reflections on the debate around face coverings for the public during COVID-19	45
COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions	34
Relational, ethically sound co-production in mental health care research: epistemic injustice and the need for an ethics of care	31
Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men	30
Concepts, disciplines and politics: on ‘structural violence’ and the ‘social determinants of health’	27
Rethinking disease preparedness: incertitude and the politics of knowledge	24
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response	24
On epidemiology as racial-capitalist (re)colonization and epistemic violence	22
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	22
Public health morality, sex, and COVID-19: sexual minority men’s HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decision-making during Ontario’s first COVID-19 lockdown	20
Working ‘upstream’ to reduce social inequalities in health: a qualitative study of how partners in an applied health research collaboration interpret the metaphor	19
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics	16
‘Complexity’ as a rhetorical smokescreen for UK public health inaction on diet	15
Resources, relationships, and systems thinking should inform the way community health promotion is funded	15
Premature evaluation? Some cautionary thoughts on global pandemics and scholarly publishing	15
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research	14
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	14
Futuring a world without disease: visualising the elimination of hepatitis C	12
Building collective control and improving health through a place-based community empowerment initiative: qualitative evidence from communities seeking agency over their built environment	12
COVID-19 and techno-solutionism: responsibilization without contextualization?	11
Public health activism in changing times: re-locating collective agency	11
‘I’m not an activist!’: digital self-advocacy in online patient communities	10
Policing the pandemic: estimating spatial and racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates	10
What is critical about critical public health? Focus on health inequalities	9
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	9

Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	9
Advocating for diamorphine: Cosmopolitical care and collective action in the ruins of the ‘old British system’	9
The publics of public health: learning from COVID-19	9
Retraction of scientific papers: the case of vaccine research	9
‘I don’t think there’s anything I can do which can keep me healthy’: how the UK immigration and asylum system shapes the health & wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland	8
‘Grenfell changes everything?’ Activism beyond hope and despair	8
#notokay: Challenging sexual violence through digital health activism	8
Decolonising the ‘safe space’ as an African innovation: the Nhanga as quiet activism to improve women’s health and wellbeing	8
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	7
Taking the National(ism) out of the National Health Service: re-locating agency to amongst ourselves	7
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	7
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries	7
Personalised medicine in the Danish welfare state: political visions for the public good	7
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	7
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	6
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding	6
Improving the health and social wellbeing of young people: exploring the potential of and for collective agency	6
The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others	6
Epistemic conflicts and Achilles’ heels: constraints of a university and public sector partnership to research obesity in Australia	6
From public issues to personal troubles: individualising social inequalities in health within local public health partnerships	6
Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	6
Forging compromiso after the storm: activism as ethics of care among health care workers in Puerto Rico	6
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust: pandemic technologies, inequalities, and public health in Ecuador and Argentina	6
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	6
‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke	5
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	5
How pharmaceutical and diagnostic stakeholders construct policy solutions to a public health ‘crisis’: an analysis of submissions to a United Kingdom House of Commons inquiry into antimicrobial resist	5
Collective eating and the management of chronic disease in Dakar: translating and enacting dietary advice	5
Beyond Asian ‘mask culture’: understanding the ethics of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore	5
‘Open’ relationships: reflections on the role of the journal in the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape	5
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	5
One for All, All for One? Containing the Promise of Solidarity in Precision Medicine	4
The PrEP response in England: enabling collective action through public health and PrEP commodity activism	4
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	4
An institutional ethnography of political and legislative factors shaping online sexual health service implementation in Ontario, Canada	4
Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices	4
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health	4
What makes a health movement successful? Health inequalities and the insulin pump in Chile	4
Beyond biological citizenship: HIV/AIDS, health, and activism in Europe reconsidered	4
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	4
Health movements in the age of austerity: rescaling resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom	3
Environmental stewardship in austere times: nurturing sustainable socio-ecological relations	3
Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	3
Emotions of burden, intensive mothering and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy	3
How Black and Latino young men who have sex with men in the United States experience and engage with eligibility criteria and recruitment practices: implications for the sustainability of community-ba	3
Enacting competition, capacity, and collaboration: performing neoliberalism in the U.S. in the era of evidence-based interventions	3
Citizenship and pleasure: a study on harm reduction assemblages in Poland	3
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease	3
LOLS@stigma: comedy as activism in the changing times of the HIV epidemic	3

Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health	3
The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire	3
Student perceptions of smoke-free school policies in Europe – a critical discourse analysis	3
Including ‘inclusion health’? A discourse analysis of health inequalities policy reviews	3
#DiabetesOnAPlate: the everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting	3
Assembling the socio-cultural and material elements of young adults’ drinking on a night out: a synthesis of Australian qualitative research	3
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers	3
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management	3
An investigation of structural violence in the lived experience of food insecurity	3
Clinician-led evidence-based activism: a critical analysis	3
National monitoring systems for health inequalities by socioeconomic status – an OECD snapshot	3
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	3
Building an implementation science of activism	2
The impact of vertical public health initiatives on gendered familial care work: public health and ethical issues	2
Mental coaching through crisis: digital technologies and psychological governance during COVID-19	2
Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England	2
The ‘noncommunicable disease space’: ethnographies of conferences, advocacy and outrage	2
“That’s what I’m supposed to do at work”: gendered labor, self-care, and overdose risk among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada	2
The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health	2
“It’s different for heterosexuals”: exploring cis-heteronormativity in COVID-19 public health directives and its impacts on Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men	2
Gendered exposures: exploring the role of paid and unpaid work throughout life in U.S. women’s cardiovascular health	2
Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation	2
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	2
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	2
‘Old’ tools in a new era: unpacking the roles of promotional and informational resources in scaled-up preventive interventions	2
A neoliberal transformation or the revival of ancient healing? A critical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine discourse on Chinese television	2
When the personal is not political: experiences of collective agency amongst participants in the domestic violence response in London, UK	2
Inequities in maternal stressful life events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women – evidence from a prospective cohort study in New Zealand	2
Maternal stress and the ZIKV epidemic in Puerto Rico	2