OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia	46
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients	34
Asylum seekers’ experiences of healthcare interpretation and translation services in the United Kingdom: a phenomenological study	23
Food insufficiency among transgender adults in the U.S. during the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2023)	20
Assessments of community pharmacists’ perceptions of the pros and cons of the home delivery of medications service in Sana’a, Yemen	17
Factors contributing to strengths-based nutrition research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health	17
Attitudes of medical students towards LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review	15
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control	15
Budgetary processes in medical organizations under a global budget payment system	14
Preventive measures as a mediating factor between belief in conspiracy theories and vaccination hesitancy among Romanian students: a multi-group analysis comparing students without COVID-19, mild, and	13
Gender and racial disparities in vascular complications associated with varicose veins: a retrospective cohort study	12
The health-physical activity entanglement in a neoliberal landscape: alternative possibilities for inquiry	11
Mental health literacy and personality traits in psychiatric nurses in China: application of latent profile analysis and network analysis	11
Gender-based analysis of medical and aesthetic intervention needs and priorities of trans and non-binary people in Québec, Canada	11
Hernia repair prevalence by age and gender among the Australian adult population from 2017 to 2021	10
The causal relationship between smoke and renal impairment: a two-sample Mendelian randomization and meta-analysis	9
Inequality of opportunity in early childhood development and health among children under five in Pakistan: a multidimensional analysis using MICS data	9
Cognitive frailty and pre-cognitive frailty in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: prevalence, risk factors, mortality	9
Remnant cholesterol and aortic aneurysm risk: insights from Mendelian randomization and the global burden of disease 2021 study	9
Mapping the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroticism: a bibliometric analysis	9
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	9
Epidemiological analysis of adverse pregnancy events and associated risk factors in the border area of Guangzhou and Foshan, China	8
“I drink tap water as it is convenient and quick” – a mixed methods evaluation of water only school policies in London	8
Obesity management and the Health at Every Size ^® approach: a close-up on Canadian adult obesity clinical practice	8
Pandemic transmission forecasting: insights from COVID-19 modeling involving environmental factors	8

Is ending HIV possible without addressing the mobility of migrants?	8
Spatiotemporal analysis of leptospirosis in Colombia from 2007 to 2021. An environmental health metrics approach	8
Consumption of dewaxed brown rice for a six-month period improves cognitive function in older adults: an open-label trial	7
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	7
Pushing the rock up the hill: an autoethnography of adapting an evidence-based health intervention in a hospital	7
Exploring the political economy nexus of tobacco production and control: a case study from Zambia	7
Correction	7
Social rights in relation to digitalization, mobile phone, and internet use – experiences of women in homelessness: a qualitative study	7
Body mass index mediates the association between C-reactive protein-triglyceride glucose index and gallstone disease: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2017–2020	6
Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health	6
Factors associated with mental illness among individuals experiencing socioeconomic disadvantages in Edmonton, Canada: an exploratory analytical study	6
Blending de-implementation and implementation to promote adoption of universal PrEP guidelines: determinants, strategies, and outcomes	6
Determinants of infertility among married women attending health facilities in Rajasthan, India: a cross-sectional study	6
Clinical outcomes in sotrovimab-treated patients for SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain: a retrospective study	6
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	5
Field survey on the conformity of equipment and environment for audiometric test in South Korean hospital	5
Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity	5
Association between systemic immune-inflammatory biomarkers (SII, NLR, PLR, LMR) and breast cancer	5
Knowledge, practices, and educational needs among Malaysian primary care physicians regarding childhood hearing loss	5
An assessment of socioeconomic status, access to healthcare, and education facilities in Indonesia following COVID-19: insights from the 8th High-Frequency COVID-19 World Bank survey	5
Risky subjectivities and ‘risk’ as governance among key and priority populations in Canada: a foucauldian discourse analysis	5
Antidepressant adherence and influencing factors among pregnant women: a retrospective cohort study in lleida, Spain	5
Abortion restrictions as a form of cascading collective trauma	5
Is reproductive agency associated with subjective well-being? A population-based cross-sectional study among men and women in four sub-Saharan African countries using the World Values Survey	4
Understanding how social policy impacts health: a realist synthesis	4
Acute effect of dual-task endurance exercise on cognitive functions and myocardial oxygen consumption; a randomized, controlled trial	4
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media	4
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health	4
Supporting cancer screening uptake in South Asian women: the wise up to cancer public health intervention	4
Association between lipid accumulation product and bowel habits and inflammatory bowel disease: a cross-sectional study	4
Relationship between health-related quality of life and emergency department visit reduction in older adults	4
The relationships between care burden and sleep quality in migrant care workers: an evaluation of the mediating factors	4
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia	4
Physical health conditions and occupational risks among piano students and teachers in Chengdu, China: prevalence, awareness, and prevention strategies	4
“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	4
Causal relationships between plasma protein ratios and lung cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization study	4
Direct health care costs associated with asthma hospitalizations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: a nationwide inpatient sample analysis	3
Realigning the global health ecosystem: an opportunity from a crisis	3
Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia	3
RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II	3
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	3
Mental health literacy in psychiatric nurses in China: a latent profile analysis	3
Variations and trends in major research topics across leading general medical journals, 1966–2022	3
Attending to migrant health in Scotland’s Ending HIV policy	3
The myth of getting carried away: relationships between rape myth acceptance and disclosure of sexual violence among victims/survivors in university	3
Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’	3
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease	3
Impact of parental and teacher health literacy on adolescent health behaviors: a cross-sectional study	3
Computational insights into SARS-CoV-2: mutation detection, therapeutic discovery, and vaccine development	3
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	3

How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults	3
Determinants of improper healthcare waste segregation in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Southern Rwanda: a cross-sectional study	3
Study on the relationship with knowledge, attitudes, and practices for prevention control of hepatitis B among university students in Hubei Province, China	2
Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption	2
The relationship between resilience and cognitive load among college level students: a cross-sectional study	2
Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking	2
Missed SDG targets: from ‘trying harder’ to engaging critically with paradox and conflict	2
Income inequality and COVID-19 in the USA	2
Exploring Black civil society perspectives of drug decriminalization reforms in the Baltimore context: a participatory action qualitative study	2
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal health research: emerging trends and bibliometric analysis	2
Healthcare governance in prisons in England: prisoners’ experiences of changes over time	2
Beyond condoms: unpacking the complex web of stigma, cost and gender disparities in STI healthcare-seeking among high-risk subgroups in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Application of multidisciplinary collaborative education in general clinical training based on the CIPP model: a comparative study	2
Exploring the factors influencing the perception of palliative care quality in Chinese patients with advanced-stage cancer: a cross-sectional study	2
Intermediate care in Denmark – a qualitative study of healthcare without healthcare mandate and diverging practices in temporary stays	2
‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke	2
How should patients be selected for clinical clerkship cases: should they be young, middle-aged, or older?	2
A mindful eating program improved home eating environment and reduced food insecurity among rural economically marginalized families	2
The complexities of ‘trust’ in the context of COVID-19 vaccination choices among Black women in Alameda County, CA	2
The nutrition transition in Vietnam: evidence from national household survey data 2012–2020	2
Antimicrobial resistance in food-related sources: a One Health perspective through comparative meta-analysis	2
“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown	2
Surviving together: social cohesion and Covid-19 infections and mortality across the world	2
‘The benefits do not reach us’: analyzing the discrepancies between the state recognition of hijra and their reality in Dhaka, Bangladesh	2
The role of the market in health systems responsiveness	2