OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
SuperNurse? Troubling the Hero Discourse in COVID Times	35
Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake	22
“This is what the truth is”: Provider-patient interactions serving as barriers to contraception	21
Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying	14
Psychosocial challenges and concerns of COVID-19: A qualitative study in Iran	11
Patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals: Introducing a new approach through professionals’ agency	9
Examining the language demands of informed consent documents in patient recruitment to cancer trials using tools from corpus and computational linguistics	9
The transdisciplinary health research apparatus: A Baradian account of knowledge boundaries and beyond	9
Social representations of the coronavirus and causal perception of its origin: The role of reasons for fear	8
Place, health and dis/advantage: A sociomaterial analysis	8
“It’s not all nice and fun”: Narrating contested illness on YouTube and Instagram	7
Hype, evidence gaps and digital divides: Telehealth blind spots in rural Australia	7
Becoming frail: A more than human exploration	7
Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVST): The decision-making process among Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish parents	7
A solidarity paradox – welfare state data in global health data economy	7
Pharmaceutical citizenship in an era of universal access to hepatitis C treatment: Situated potentials and limits	6
Medical assistance in dying and the meaning of care: Perspectives of nurses, pharmacists, and social workers	6
Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: A critical conceptual review	6
HIV stigma in UK press reporting of a case of intentional HIV transmission	6
Doing nothing? An ethnography of patients’ (In)activity on an acute stroke unit	6
Beyond the hour of death: Family experiences of grief and bereavement following an end-of-life hospitalization in the intensive care unit	6
Disciplining empathy: Differences in empathy with U.S. medical students by college major	6
The discursive construction of HIV stigma in Irish print media	6
Recovering the body in grief: Physical absence and embodied presence	5
A syndemics approach to exercise is medicine	5

Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction	5
Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die?	5
Exiting Alcoholics Anonymous disappointed: A qualitative analysis of the experiences of ex-members of AA	5
Transgender debates and healthcare: A critical realist account	5
The mouth and oral health in the field of dementia	4
Vulnerability as a palimpsest: Practices and public policy in a Mexican hospital setting	4
The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance	4
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic, vaccine-associated narcolepsy, and the politics of risk and harm	4
‘I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right?’: The biopolitics of substance use and the mental health of sexual minority men	4
From domestication to imperial patronage: Deconstructing the biomedicalisation of occupational therapy	4
Talking about chronic pain: Misalignment in discussions of the body, mind and social aspects in pain clinic consultations	4
Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’	4
Coding for quality? Accountability work in standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs)	4
“Time work”: An analysis of temporal experiences and agentic practices in the “good” doctor-patient relationship in general practice	4
‘Social media comes with good and bad sides, doesn’t it?’ A balancing act of the benefits and risks of social media use by young adults with long-term conditions	4
A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations	4
Barriers to physical activity for father’s living in marginalising conditions	4
Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An autoethnography of diagnostic identity and performance of illness	4
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy	4
A new kind of gatekeeper: The increasing prevalence of Advanced Practice Nurses as case managers in US hospitals	3
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments	3
“That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand “obesity,” health, and physical activity	3
Conducting member checking within a qualitative case study on health-related behaviours in a large European city: Appraising interpretations and co-constructing findings	3
Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS: Campaigning, care and epistemic labour	3
Mass media and communication interventions to increase HIV testing among gay and other men who have sex with men: Social marketing and visual design component analysis	3
Between a logic of disruption and a logic of continuation: Negotiating the legitimacy of algorithms used in automated clinical decision-making	3
Becoming a cancer survivor: An experiment in dialogical health research	3
The UK COVID-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention: The need to consider promissory discourses	3
The power struggle: exploring the reality of clinical reasoning	3
Luckily—I am not the worrying kind: Experiences of patients in the Danish cancer patient pathway for non-specific symptoms and signs of cancer	3
Suicide justice: Adopting Indigenous feminist methods in settler suicidology	2
‘Engaging on a slightly more human level’: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic	2
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	2
The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research	2
The patient as a policy problem: Ambiguous perceptions of a critical interface in healthcare	2
Becoming a complementary health practitioner: The construction of alternative medical knowledge	2
Spaces out of reach? Service user involvement in residents’ meetings at recovery-oriented social housing facilities for young people with mental health disorders	2
“Missing minorities” in blood donation: Rethinking blood procurement in Europe as a citizenship regime	2
The storying of birth	2
The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach	2
Peer support for accepting distressing reality: Expertise and experience-sharing in psychiatric peer-to-peer group discussions	2
The ‘disenchantment’ of traditional acupuncturists in higher education	2
Stigma, shame and family secrets as consequences of mental illness in previous generations: A micro-history approach	2
Articulating the canon: The sociology of medical education from 1980 to 2000	2
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination	2
‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada	2
Patient narratives of hope in stem cell technologies: Trust in biomedicine and the body’s natural ability to heal itself	2
Kidney failure, status passage, and the transitional nature of living with the disease: A qualitative study in Argentina	2
Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic	2
‘To more than I can be’: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	2

Medical professionals’ agency and pharmaceuticalization: Physician-industry relations in Russia	1
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	1
‘Bad choices’: Unintended pregnancy and abortion in nurses’ and counsellors’ accounts of providing pre-abortion counselling	1
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation	1
“You kind of blame it on the alcohol, but. . .”: A discourse analysis of alcohol use and sexual consent among young men in Vancouver, Canada	1
‘Madness’ after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – challenging dominant understandings of distress	1
Gaining access to the field in medical ethnography: Reflections on ethical, methodological, and structural challenges in the study of long-term care facilities	1
Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms	1
The day program multiple: Noncoherence and ontological politics	1
Good care and adverse effects: Exploring the use of social alarms in care for older people in Sweden	1
A qualitative exploration of the prescribing and use of statins in asymptomatic people in Ireland: A case of medicalisation, biomedicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation	1
And they slept happily ever after: Online interpretive repertoires on the use of benzodiazepines and z-drugs	1
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health: A systematic mapping review	1
‘It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments’: Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown	1
Negotiating with digital self-monitoring: A qualitative study on how patients with multiple sclerosis use and experience digital self-monitoring within a scientific study	1
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	1
Resistance or appropriation?: Uptake of exercise after a nurse-led intervention to promote self-management for osteoarthritis	1
From embodiment to evidence: The harmful intersection of poor regulation of medical implants and obstructed narratives in embodied experiences of failed metal-on-metal hips	1
Taking care of oneself and others: The emotion work of women suffering from a rare skin disease	1
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia’s COVID-19 public updates	1
An autopsy of the coloniality of suicide: Modernity’s completed genocide	1
The unexpected other: Challenges and strategies after acquired impairment	1
Using Photovoice to understand physical and social living environment influence on adherence to diabetes	1
Enacting objects and subjects in a children’s rehabilitation clinic: Default and shifting ontological politics of muscular dystrophy care	1
Creating an (ethical) epistemic space for the normalization of clinical and “real food” oral immunotherapy for food allergy	1
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	1
‘The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small’: Bodybuilders explain muscle dysmorphia	1
‘Don’t freak out if you get a letter saying cancer patient pathways!’: Communication work between different demands in cancer care	1
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis	1
The ethics of facing the Other in suicide	1