OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disability & Society is 3. 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
‘Even if it’s flawed it’s still beautiful’: life lessons learned by adolescents with neurological conditions at summer camp	53
Burden of support: a counter narrative of service users’ experiences with community housing services	40
Announcement of doctoral theses	31
Making spaces in exclusionary places: the spatial tactics/stories of disabled people and their families in Hong Kong	28
Intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Transnational perspectives on people, policy, and practice	25
Just a show: the home-delivery education policy for children with disabilities in China	25
Announcement of doctoral theses	21
Announcement of doctoral theses	17
Those they called idiots: the idea of the disabled mind from 1700 to the present day	17
Announcement of doctoral theses	17
Enablers and inhibitors of the co-production of disability-inclusive employment: perspectives from people with visual impairment	15
Announcement of doctoral theses	15
Gender, feminism and the project of critical disability studies (CDS)	15
Disability and employment in China: a Guangzhou case study	15
Announcement of doctoral theses	15
Autonomous care decisions: what can Article 12 of the CRPD offer to older disabled adults and their supporters?	15
Disabling discourses: contemporary cinematic representations of acquired physical disability	14
Towards interdependence: reciprocal relationships between students living with disability and their significant others	14
The diversity model in Spain: contributions and challenges for its implementation: ‘the way we want to live’	14
Experiences of higher education for students with chronic illnesses	14
Career development for students with disabilities in an open distance learning institution: A narrative inquiry	13
Neurodiversity and double empathy: can empathy disconnects be mitigated to support autistic belonging?	13
Disability, diversity and inclusive education in Haiti: learning, exclusion and educational relationships in the context of crises	12
Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability	12
When will we decolonise the positions disabled people should hold?	12

Manifestations of spatial exclusion and inclusion of people with disabilities in Africa	11
Special Olympics Pakistan: using a segregated space to transition to independence in mainstream settings	11
Examining the vulnerability of persons with disabilities in Myanmar pre and post-COVID-19 and military coup	11
Some things never seem to change: further towards an affirmation model	11
Debunking Choice and Control in Active Support: A Qualitative Analysis of Encounters in Training Videos between Staff and People with Intellectual Disability	10
Announcement of doctoral theses	10
Women’s experiences of special observations on locked wards	10
Investigating short video consumption practices by individuals with visual impairments in China: questions of how to ‘see’	10
Enhancing sign language recognition and accessibility for the deaf community in China	9
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for persons with disabilities in school settings: A call for research	9
Disabled people as foster carers – closing the recruitment gap and more	9
Organisational neurotypicalness: fighting unintentional ableism in working spaces	9
The reflective journey: A practitioner’s guide to the low arousal approach	9
Interdependencies in peer work with people with disability	9
A participatory research to design a survey providing a portrait of the life of people with visual impairments	8
Experiences within pharmacies: reflections of persons with visual impairment in South Africa	8
Child welfare system inequities experienced by disabled parents: towards a conceptual framework	8
Bridging the gap: special educators’ perceptions of their professional roles in supporting inclusive education in Kazakhstan	8
Mothers of children without disabilities’ conceptions of inclusive education: unveiling an exclusionary education system privileging normality and ableism	8
‘We have no power over perceptions’: the lived experiences of women with disabilities in a rural South African community	8
Caring for children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: images and metaphors expressed by Dutch parents	8
Poverty alleviation for people with disabilities in China: policy, practice, exclusionary effects, and ways forward	8
Avoiding the deaf penalty: a review of the experiences of d/Deaf individuals in the criminal justice system	8
Social and Juridical Sciences faculty members’ experiences in Spain: what to do to develop an inclusive pedagogy	8
Do disabled people also vote? Electoral frameworks and voting participation in Nigeria’s 2019 elections	8
This changes everything: a critical reflection on the impact of internalized ableist constructs on becoming a disabled mother	8
A test of faith? Attitudes of ultraorthodox Jewish parents of children with down syndrome toward prenatal testing	8
Conceptualising responsibility and hostility within work-integrated learning placements for students with disabilities	7
Paternalism to empowerment: all in the eye of the beholder?	7
‘Five rungs down’: encounters between disabled parents and the medical institution	7
The impact of the transition to Personal Independence Payment on claimants with mental health problems	7
Negotiating agency: disability activism in Uganda between local contexts and global influences	7
Ataxia and me – living within a neurological hierarchy	7
Announcement of doctoral theses	7
Perceptions of disabilities among Native Americans within the state of Utah	7
‘All in this together?’ A commentary on the impact of COVID-19 on disability day services in Ireland	7
Critical networks: Embedding programmes for individuals with intellectual impairments in university contexts in Chile, Ireland and Australia	7
Deaf migration through an intersectionality lens	6
China’s prevention policy for people with disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic	6
Inclusive (social) citizenship and persons with dementia	6
A user-led audit of the walkability and wheelability of Quebec City’s neighborhoods by mobility assistive technology users	6
Conform or be ostracised: restricted and repetitive behaviours in non-autistic persons	6
Autism should be considered in the assessment and delivery of mental health services for children and young people	6
On disability, humour and rabbit holes: a personal reflection	6
The ‘shadow pandemic’ in online learning: perspectives of visually impaired students from Ghana and Egypt	6
Merging critical disability theory with Post-Colonial hybridity theory: a widened lens and implications	6
Still outsiders: The inclusion of disabled children and young people in physical education in England	6
Shifting power to people with disability in co-designed research	6
Working with Global Aphasia: theory and Practice	6
The pandemic paradox: a mixed methods participatory approach to understanding autistic adults’ experiences during COVID-19	6

Critical cultural disability studies and mental health: a rhetorical perspective	6
Claiming chaos narrative, emerging from silence	6
COVID-19 in Bangladesh: an especially difficult time for an invisible population	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Supporting chronically ill college student wellbeing through campus counterspaces	6
Reconceptualising ‘reasonable adjustments’ for the successful employment of autistic women	6
The autism predicament: models of autism and their impact on autistic identity	6
Lack of braille labelling and instructions on Chinese pharmaceutical packaging	5
De Gruyter handbook of disability and management	5
Rising to the challenge: disability organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Education, equity and inclusion: teaching and learning for a sustainable North	5
“I’m worthy of having experiences just like everybody else”: exploring sexual well-being among young disabled people	5
The disability gap in voter turnout and its association to the accessibility of election information in EU countries	5
Long COVID and chronic pain: overlapping racial inequalities	5
What works in rapid response public health projects?	5
The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion: experiences of a disabled postgraduate in perpetual lockdown	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Announcement of Doctoral Theses	5
Activating disability care: the formation of collective disability care networks in China’s COVID-19 outbreak	5
‘They would be bullied in ordinary schools’ – exploring public discourses on inclusionary schooling	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Raising the voices of AuDHD women and girls: exploring the co-occurring conditions of autism and ADHD	5
To heaven and back: don’t die… live on!	5
National disability insurance scheme: is it creating an ordinary life for adults with intellectual disability?	5
The paradox of ‘positive energy’ ( zheng nengliang ): the complex affective realities of people with hearing impairments in china’s service industry	5
A*tistic females’ network	5
‘Because it’s who I am’: self-determination of LGBTQ adults with intellectual disability	5
Photovoice for disability inclusion on campus	5
The unheard voices of academia: overcoming systemic barriers and fostering inclusive spaces for knowledge exchange	4
Unseen and unheard: how the Future Generations Act is not addressing the needs of the Welsh deaf community	4
Negotiating work and care in Chinese families of children with autism: reframing mothers’ narratives through a social-relational lens	4
Experiences of food access among disabled adults in Toronto, Canada	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
Chat windows and zoom bombers: virtual boundaries in mental health peer support	4
How we work: reflecting on ten years of inclusive research	4
Film, comedy and disability: understanding humour and genre in cinematic constructions of impairment and disability	4
From the equal opportunity commission case files: experiences among persons with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago	4
Book review	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
How is autism portrayed in news media? A content analysis of Australian newspapers articles from 2016–2018	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
Against the rules – disrupting and reassessing discursive practices of playfulness	4
Disability and the problem of lazy intersectionality	4
Disability practice: safeguarding quality service delivery,	4
‘Then you realise you can actually do it’: young disabled people negotiating challenges during times of transitioning into adulthood	4
Barrier-free film screening in China: awareness, practice and suggestions	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
‘There’s nothing I can do to stop it’: homelessness among autistic people in a British city	4
Disability-inclusive development: a postcolonial analysis in Lao PDR	4
‘… they had interpreted “disability” as referring to a patently visible disability’: experience of a patient group with NICE	4
Making me with others-gendered meanings of youth and youthfulness among young female disabled assistance users	3
Social support and living during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced by persons with disabilities: a qualitative study in Munich	3
Nine years of war and internal conflicts in Syria: a call for physical rehabilitation services	3
Memories of resistance. The people with physical disability movement in the late francoism and the Spanish democratic transition	3
Misfitting and social practice theory: incorporating disability into the performance and (re)enactment of social practices	3
Access to and utilisation of sexual and reproductive healthcare for women and girls with cerebral palsy: a scoping review	3
‘That’s my journey’: what motivated me to conduct disability research?	3
Between safety and isolation: the governmental-ministerial approach to care homes in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Disability stories: personal perspectives of people with disabilities on navigating the U.S. health system	3
Identity, mental health, and ableism in Australian schools: findings from a multi-stakeholder survey	3
Announcement of doctoral theses	3
Academic identities and socio-spatial exclusions of academics with disabilities: a capabilities approach	3
Inclusive education for students with disabilities in the global COVID-19 outbreak emergency: some facts and thoughts from China	3
Reviewing the limitations of publicly funded adult developmental services in Ontario: exposing ableist assumptions within the administrative process	3
Naming ourselves, becoming neurodivergent scholars	3
Critical discourse analysis of federal and provincial government grants for post-secondary students with disabilities in Alberta and Ontario	3
Perceptions of university students with disabilities in Spain: ideas and beliefs about attitudes towards their inclusion	3
Schooling children with disabilities during COVID-19: Perspectives of teachers and caregivers in Ethiopia	3
Sense-making narratives of autistic women diagnosed in adulthood: a systematic review of the qualitative research	3
Announcement of doctoral theses	3
Inclusive postsecondary education and self-determination: using photovoice to centre student voices in the United States of America	3
Visually impaired women on the move: the intersection of gender and disability in China	3
‘I am an Arab Palestinian living in Israel with a disability’: marginalisation and the limits of human rights	3
Invisible barriers: excluding accessibility from the field of interest of architecture and urban planning in Poland	3
End-of-life care for adults with long-standing physical disability from the perspectives of bereaved family members: a qualitative exploratory study	3
Accessibility for parents with disability: is it reality or fantasy?	3
Ableism versus free speech in Australia: challenging online hate speech toward people with Down syndrome	3
Prospects for employment of persons with disabilities in the post-covid-19 era in developing countries	3
Usher syndrome, an unseen/hidden disability: a phenomenological study of adults across the lifespan living in England	3
‘Sick with stress’: perspectives on airport travel from persons living with dementia and their travel companions	3