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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
“This is what the truth is”: Provider-patient interactions serving as barriers to contraception	26
Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying	18
Examining the language demands of informed consent documents in patient recruitment to cancer trials using tools from corpus and computational linguistics	15
The transdisciplinary health research apparatus: A Baradian account of knowledge boundaries and beyond	11
Psychosocial challenges and concerns of COVID-19: A qualitative study in Iran	11
Becoming frail: A more than human exploration	10
Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction	10
Place, health and dis/advantage: A sociomaterial analysis	10
Hype, evidence gaps and digital divides: Telehealth blind spots in rural Australia	9
A solidarity paradox – welfare state data in global health data economy	9
Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An autoethnography of diagnostic identity and performance of illness	9
Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: A critical conceptual review	8
Medical assistance in dying and the meaning of care: Perspectives of nurses, pharmacists, and social workers	8
“It’s not all nice and fun”: Narrating contested illness on YouTube and Instagram	8
Social representations of the coronavirus and causal perception of its origin: The role of reasons for fear	8
Pharmaceutical citizenship in an era of universal access to hepatitis C treatment: Situated potentials and limits	7
Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVST): The decision-making process among Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish parents	7
From domestication to imperial patronage: Deconstructing the biomedicalisation of occupational therapy	7
A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations	7
‘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	7
‘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	6
Disciplining empathy: Differences in empathy with U.S. medical students by college major	6
Doing nothing? An ethnography of patients’ (In)activity on an acute stroke unit	6
Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die?	6
Transgender debates and healthcare: A critical realist account	6

A syndemics approach to exercise is medicine	6
“Time work”: An analysis of temporal experiences and agentic practices in the “good” doctor-patient relationship in general practice	6
The mouth and oral health in the field of dementia	6
The discursive construction of HIV stigma in Irish print media	6
Becoming a cancer survivor: An experiment in dialogical health research	5
“That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand “obesity,” health, and physical activity	5
Conducting member checking within a qualitative case study on health-related behaviours in a large European city: Appraising interpretations and co-constructing findings	5
Coding for quality? Accountability work in standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs)	5
Between a logic of disruption and a logic of continuation: Negotiating the legitimacy of algorithms used in automated clinical decision-making	5
Barriers to physical activity for father’s living in marginalising conditions	5
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy	5
A new kind of gatekeeper: The increasing prevalence of Advanced Practice Nurses as case managers in US hospitals	4
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments	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 power struggle: exploring the reality of clinical reasoning	4
‘Engaging on a slightly more human level’: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic	4
Talking about chronic pain: Misalignment in discussions of the body, mind and social aspects in pain clinic consultations	4
Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada	3
“Missing minorities” in blood donation: Rethinking blood procurement in Europe as a citizenship regime	3
The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach	3
Kidney failure, status passage, and the transitional nature of living with the disease: A qualitative study in Argentina	3
‘The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small’: Bodybuilders explain muscle dysmorphia	3
Suicide justice: Adopting Indigenous feminist methods in settler suicidology	3
The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research	3
‘Bad choices’: Unintended pregnancy and abortion in nurses’ and counsellors’ accounts of providing pre-abortion counselling	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 ethics of facing the Other in suicide	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
Power, position and social relations: Is the espoused absence of hierarchy in Open Dialogue naïve?	2
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	2
Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia	2
Peer support for accepting distressing reality: Expertise and experience-sharing in psychiatric peer-to-peer group discussions	2
‘To more than I can be’: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	2
Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic	2
Articulating the canon: The sociology of medical education from 1980 to 2000	2
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis	2
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation	2
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	2
Involuntary psychiatric treatment and the erosion of consent: A critical discourse analysis of mental health legislation in British Columbia, Canada	2
An autopsy of the coloniality of suicide: Modernity’s completed genocide	2
The patient as a policy problem: Ambiguous perceptions of a critical interface in healthcare	2
The day program multiple: Noncoherence and ontological politics	2
Creating an (ethical) epistemic space for the normalization of clinical and “real food” oral immunotherapy for food allergy	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
‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada	2
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	2
‘Madness’ after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – challenging dominant understandings of distress	2
Patient narratives of hope in stem cell technologies: Trust in biomedicine and the body’s natural ability to heal itself	2
Shaping mindful citizens: Practitioners’ motivations and aspirations for mindfulness in education	2

Using Photovoice to understand physical and social living environment influence on adherence to diabetes	2
Stigma, shame and family secrets as consequences of mental illness in previous generations: A micro-history approach	2
The ‘disenchantment’ of traditional acupuncturists in higher education	2
Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity	2
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia’s COVID-19 public updates	2
Intercorporeal collaboration: Staging, parsing, and embodied directives in dementia care	1
Reflections of a white healthcare professional researching ethnicized and racialized minorities: Autoethnographically explored emotions revealing implicit advantages and consequences	1
Medical professionals’ agency and pharmaceuticalization: Physician-industry relations in Russia	1
From training wheels to chemical condoms: Exploring narratives of PrEP discontinuation	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
Parental experiences of the liminal period of a child’s fatal illness	1
Progressing the understanding of chronic illness and its treatment: A post-human, ethological understanding of haemodialysis	1
Enacting objects and subjects in a children’s rehabilitation clinic: Default and shifting ontological politics of muscular dystrophy care	1
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy	1
Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms	1
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life	1
And they slept happily ever after: Online interpretive repertoires on the use of benzodiazepines and z-drugs	1
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health: A systematic mapping review	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
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media	1
Biographical disruption, redefinition, and recovery: Illness identities of women with depression and diabetes	1
The unexpected other: Challenges and strategies after acquired impairment	1
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	1
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer	1
‘Through a kaleidoscope’: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of Belgian policy regarding patients with a migration background and depression in general practices	1
Good care and adverse effects: Exploring the use of social alarms in care for older people in Sweden	1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) menopause: Literature review, knowledge gaps and research agenda	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
Taking care of oneself and others: The emotion work of women suffering from a rare skin disease	1
‘It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments’: Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown	1
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination	1
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	1