OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Public Health is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients	29
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control	28
Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia	26
Attitudes of medical students towards LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review	26
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	25
Budgetary processes in medical organizations under a global budget payment system	23
Hernia repair prevalence by age and gender among the Australian adult population from 2017 to 2021	21
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	16
Social rights in relation to digitalization, mobile phone, and internet use – experiences of women in homelessness: a qualitative study	15
Exploring the political economy nexus of tobacco production and control: a case study from Zambia	12
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	12
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	11
Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health	11
Personalised medicine in the Danish welfare state: political visions for the public good	11
Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity	11
Comparison between the effects of guided and free museum visits on the physical demands and well-being of sedentary individuals over 50: an observational comparative study	11
Blending de-implementation and implementation to promote adoption of universal PrEP guidelines: determinants, strategies, and outcomes	10
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health	10
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	10
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media	8
Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia	8
“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	8
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	8
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia	8
Time, resourcing, and ethics: how the routinisation of organ donation after circulatory death in the NHS has created new ethical issues	8

Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’	7
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease	7
Mental health literacy in psychiatric nurses in China: a latent profile analysis	7
RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II	7
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	7
How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults	7
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health	7
“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown	6
Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption	6
Realigning the global health ecosystem: an opportunity from a crisis	6
Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking	6
Income inequality and COVID-19 in the USA	5
Surviving together: social cohesion and Covid-19 infections and mortality across the world	5
Healthcare governance in prisons in England: prisoners’ experiences of changes over time	5
‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke	5
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal health research: emerging trends and bibliometric analysis	5
What do private providers of home care want? An analytical framework	5
Missed SDG targets: from ‘trying harder’ to engaging critically with paradox and conflict	5
The complexities of ‘trust’ in the context of COVID-19 vaccination choices among Black women in Alameda County, CA	5
The 7.3 million Australians living with musculoskeletal conditions are not getting the support they deserve	4
Effects of family socioeconomic status on college students’ physical activity: chain-mediated effects of parental exercise habits and family sports climate	4
The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life	4
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	4
The association between early life access to communication and perceived mental health in a cross-sectional study of deaf Australian adults	4
Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia	4
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA	4
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	4
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	4
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	4
‘I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’: experiences of and resistance to harms of peer research	4
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	4
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%	3
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	3
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust: pandemic technologies, inequalities, and public health in Ecuador and Argentina	3
Modifiable risk factors for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy	3
Effect of calcium supplementation in reducing adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers	3
Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes	3
Two strategies used by local intersectoral networks to create healthier environments: a cross-case analysis in the Montreal urban setting	3
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	3
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement	3
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	3
Then and now: umbrella variables mask temporal mechanisms of structural racism in US urban environments	3
Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy	3
The Public-in-Waiting: Children’s representation and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 public health response	2
‘Open’ relationships: reflections on the role of the journal in the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape	2
Australian burden of disease study: health equity through data disaggregation	2
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research	2
“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	2
From self- to other- surveillance: a critical commentary on the English policy framework for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)	2

‘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	2
Moving on in uncertain times: a goodbye	2
Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	2
More than one crisis: COVID-19 response actors navigating multi-dimensional crises in Flanders, Belgium	2
Revisiting the 8-syndrome of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in 67257 Chinese school students	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
A preliminary exploration of ChatGPT’s potential in medical reasoning and patient care	2
The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire	2
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C	1
Hurdles in the personalized medicine implementation path: public’s literacy and misconceptions of whole genomic sequencing test	1
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	1
Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information	1
The quest for diffusible community health worker projects and the pitfalls of scaling culture	1
Changing school cultures for mental wellbeing in Hong Kong: the potential of pedagogic practices that take power into account	1
Global research on cognitive function for Schizophrenia from 2014 to 2024: a bibliometric and visual analysis	1
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	1
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	1
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	1
An emergency of circulation: entry screening in the UK during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	1
Inequities in maternal stressful life events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women – evidence from a prospective cohort study in New Zealand	1
From uncertain diseases to uncertain vaccines. Experts’ failure in the light of policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic—the case of Poland	1
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city	1
Assessment of physical activity levels among undergraduate medical students at a southwestern college in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study	1
2024 EIP abstract book	1
Does ’class count’? The evolution of health inequalities by social class in early 21st century China (2002–2013)	1
Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices	1