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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions	38
Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men	37
Rethinking disease preparedness: incertitude and the politics of knowledge	30
On epidemiology as racial-capitalist (re)colonization and epistemic violence	29
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	24
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	22
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research	21
Working ‘upstream’ to reduce social inequalities in health: a qualitative study of how partners in an applied health research collaboration interpret the metaphor	21
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	20
Public health activism in changing times: re-locating collective agency	16
Policing the pandemic: estimating spatial and racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates	15
What is critical about critical public health? Focus on health inequalities	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?	12
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	12
The publics of public health: learning from COVID-19	11
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries	11
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	11
Decolonising the ‘safe space’ as an African innovation: the Nhanga as quiet activism to improve women’s health and wellbeing	11
Retraction of scientific papers: the case of vaccine research	10
‘Grenfell changes everything?’ Activism beyond hope and despair	9
Taking the National(ism) out of the National Health Service: re-locating agency to amongst ourselves	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	9
Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	8

Personalised medicine in the Danish welfare state: political visions for the public good	8
The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others	8
Forging compromiso after the storm: activism as ethics of care among health care workers in Puerto Rico	7
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	7
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	7
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	7
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding	7
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	7
Beyond Asian ‘mask culture’: understanding the ethics of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore	7
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	7
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust: pandemic technologies, inequalities, and public health in Ecuador and Argentina	7
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	7
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	7
Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices	6
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health	6
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	6
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	6
‘I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’: experiences of and resistance to harms of peer research	5
‘Open’ relationships: reflections on the role of the journal in the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape	5
Assembling the socio-cultural and material elements of young adults’ drinking on a night out: a synthesis of Australian qualitative research	5
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	5
An institutional ethnography of political and legislative factors shaping online sexual health service implementation in Ontario, Canada	5
National monitoring systems for health inequalities by socioeconomic status – an OECD snapshot	5
Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England	5
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	5
Emotions of burden, intensive mothering and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy	5
‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke	5
Beyond biological citizenship: HIV/AIDS, health, and activism in Europe reconsidered	5
Collective eating and the management of chronic disease in Dakar: translating and enacting dietary advice	5
An investigation of structural violence in the lived experience of food insecurity	4
Including ‘inclusion health’? A discourse analysis of health inequalities policy reviews	4
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	4
Environmental stewardship in austere times: nurturing sustainable socio-ecological relations	4
Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health	4
‘If you’re serious about losing weight, why are you drinking all those Cokes?’: a critical discourse analysis of interviews on sugar-sweetened beverages amongst residents of a middle to upper class ne	4
Student perceptions of smoke-free school policies in Europe – a critical discourse analysis	4
Health movements in the age of austerity: rescaling resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom	4
The PrEP response in England: enabling collective action through public health and PrEP commodity activism	4
One for All, All for One? Containing the Promise of Solidarity in Precision Medicine	4
The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change	4
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers	4
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management	4
The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health	3
Mental coaching through crisis: digital technologies and psychological governance during COVID-19	3
Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy	3
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	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
Economies of resistance	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

Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	3
The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire	3
Clinician-led evidence-based activism: a critical analysis	3
“A change in the narrative, a change in consensus”: the role of Deep End networks in supporting primary care practitioners serving areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation	3
#DiabetesOnAPlate: the everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting	3
‘Old’ tools in a new era: unpacking the roles of promotional and informational resources in scaled-up preventive interventions	3
Frailty goes viral: a critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 national clinical guidelines in the United Kingdom	2
Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia	2
Do you see the problem? Visualising a generalised ‘complex local system’ of antibiotic prescribing across the United Kingdom using qualitative interview data	2
A neoliberal transformation or the revival of ancient healing? A critical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine discourse on Chinese television	2
The quest for health and the unhealthy ‘others’. A critical case study of Syrian women newcomers’ meeting with health promotion and civic integration discourses upon arrival in Denmark	2
Inequities in maternal stressful life events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women – evidence from a prospective cohort study in New Zealand	2
Gendered exposures: exploring the role of paid and unpaid work throughout life in U.S. women’s cardiovascular health	2
Time, resourcing, and ethics: how the routinisation of organ donation after circulatory death in the NHS has created new ethical issues	2
Evidence-based medicine and physicians’ institutional agency in Russian clinical settings	2
Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health	2
When the personal is not political: experiences of collective agency amongst participants in the domestic violence response in London, UK	2
Pathways of less healthy diets. An investigation of the everyday food practices of men and women in low income households	2
Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation	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
Moving on in uncertain times: a goodbye	2
The impact of vertical public health initiatives on gendered familial care work: public health and ethical issues	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
Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking	2
“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown	2