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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Media portrayals of psychotropic agents in AD/HD treatment: A social constructionist approach	17
‘Equal footing, equal voice’: Recognition of self and other in Shared Reading for people with lived experience of mental distress	16
How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence	15
Public health crisis as problematization: A comparative analysis of opioid overdose and heart disease	13
Living with hard-to-heal wounds: A global health challenge explored through analytic sketches	11
Maintaining a medical institution in a context of materiality change: Lessons from a Canadian university hospital	9
‘I don’t know if there’s a happy ending to this story’: An analysis of prostate cancer narratives in a follow-up setting	9
Suspended responsibility: The trouble with integrating researchers into shared-responsibility models for machine learning-supported decisions	9
In search of a habitable world: The long journey of women who survived breast cancer	8
Degendered care and the biomedicalization of masculinity after myocardial infarction: A qualitative analysis exploring Swedish healthcare professionals’ perspectives	8
Affective gaps in eHealth communication: Exploring patient experiences with health data on the eHealth platform sundhed.dk	7
Understanding ‘embedded pharmaceuticalisation’: A case study of sleeping medication use in later life	7
Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability	7
Loss, shame and secrecy in women’s experiences of a vulval skin condition: A qualitative study	7
Agency, sex and drug education: Examining the response-ability of education responses to consumption, sex and harm	7
The school lunchbox as a social problem	7
Narratives of reconstruction: Looking beyond biographical disruption through three Indian breast cancer memoirs	6
A bad migrant: An autoethnographic case study of racism in Australian HIV care	6
Legitimacy and professional boundaries: An institutional analysis of Chinese Medicine in Mainland China and Hong Kong	6
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media	6
‘Alright my lovely’: The use of terms of endearment as a mitigation device in the care of people living with dementia in the acute hospital environment	5
From rational collective feeding to flexible individual choice: The governance of hospital foodservice in transition	5
The influence of health resources on income inequality in Europe	4
Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity	4
Navigating uncertainty in low back pain care through an ethic of openness: Learnings from a post-critical analysis	4

The IPEDs assemblage: Tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society	4
Producing non-communicable diseases(NCD’s) as health ‘problems’ in Botswana: A critical analysis of the NCD strategy (2018–2023)	4
The contribution of a complex systems-based approach to progressive social resilience	4
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	4
The unravelling of person-centred care: The value and necessity of analysing power relations in contraceptive services	4
Understanding the spatiality in neglected tropical diseases: An ethnographic study of scrub typhus in Puducherry, India	4
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	4
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer	4
Mental health is everybody’s business: The doxa and illusio of local public policy implementation	4
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	4
Sedated beauty: The invisible knife in online narratives about cosmetic breast augmentation	4
A challenging little balance: How white doulas with mainstream training understand and engage with anti-oppressive practice	4
Coexisting cancer regimes: Transformations of breast and lung cancer in the United Kingdom	4
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	4
Inegalitarian effects on access to vaccines of delegating Covid-19 vaccination to a private online appointment platform: The French case	4
‘To improve quality of life’: Diverging enactments of a value in nephrology clinical practices	4
Sabotage, feeding and collusion after bariatric surgery. And the winner is . . .? A psychodynamic and systemic perspective on sabotage and feeding after bariatric surgery by means of a case series ana	4
Self-care and social class: Unpacking inequities in healthcare access during a healthcare reform	3
Telemedicine and patient-centered care: The perspective of primary-care physicians	3
‘Hearts’ and ‘minds’: Illustrating identity tensions of people living and working through marketising policy change of allied health disability services in Australia	3
Medical professionals’ agency and pharmaceuticalization: Physician-industry relations in Russia	3
From (in)dependence to interdependence: A qualitative study on multiplicity in assemblages of agency and addiction recovery	3
Introducing Point-of-Care PCR technology in general practice: Ambiguities, experiences, and perceptions among health care professionals	3
Ill by mouth? Patients’ experiences of the oral and dental manifestations of scleroderma	3
Rethinking posthumanism in rehabilitation science: Lessons from Indigenous, Black, and decolonial thought	3
More than meets the eye: Understanding the importance of the materialities of care at the vaccination encounter in Portugal	3
‘Through a kaleidoscope’: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of Belgian policy regarding patients with a migration background and depression in general practices	3
The role of primary care providers in supporting more sustainable lifestyles: Experiences and expectations of vegan parents	3
Rethinking the logic of early diagnosis in cancer	3
Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada	3
Navigating residual diagnostic categories: The lived experiences of women diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood	3
Caution in dialogical power relationships calls for reflection and clear concepts	3
Sensing pain: Embodied knowledge in endometriosis	3
“Do you want to know or not?” How prenatal providers manage clinical uncertainty related to chromosomal risk and noninvasive prenatal testing	2
Narrative and obesity: Managing weight stigma associated with bariatric surgery	2
‘Madness’ after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – challenging dominant understandings of distress	2
‘Is it in your basic personality?’ Negotiations about traits and context in diagnostic interviews for personality disorders	2
Constructing therapeutic support and negotiating competing agendas: A discourse analysis of vocational advice provided to individuals who are absent from work due to ill-health	2
Shared care and gender identity support in Primary Care: The perspectives and experiences of parents/carers of young trans people	2
Functionality as defence: A deep-structure hermeneutic study of institutional coping and professional identity during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Reflections of a white healthcare professional researching ethnicized and racialized minorities: Autoethnographically explored emotions revealing implicit advantages and consequences	2
Intercorporeal collaboration: Staging, parsing, and embodied directives in dementia care	2
Antibiotic misuse and vaccine hesitancy: A hidden relation?	2
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality	2
‘Don’t freak out if you get a letter saying cancer patient pathways!’: Communication work between different demands in cancer care	2
Is Covid-19 “vaccine uptake” in postsecondary education a “problem”? A critical policy inquiry	2
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy	2
Experiences of living with, managing, and preventing reoccurrence of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Restoring context and complexity to health and illness research	1
“Too soft for real psychiatry”? Gendered boundary-making between coercion and dialog in Italian wards	1
Threatened by an individual double-edged risk? Representations of suicidal behavior and people who attempt suicide in prevention policies in Denmark. A poststructural policy analysis	1

The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach	1
Resident training in psychopathology and uncertainty in a clinical situation	1
SIECHI: A systems model of elite capture and structural inertia in health inequity	1
“Time work”: An analysis of temporal experiences and agentic practices in the “good” doctor-patient relationship in general practice	1
Queering the diagnostic trajectory of borderline personality disorder	1
Narrative, moral and institutional effects of childhood ADHD: Listening to teachers and mothers of diagnosed children	1
Involuntary psychiatric treatment and the erosion of consent: A critical discourse analysis of mental health legislation in British Columbia, Canada	1
Mind-Stuff and Withdrawal of the Senses: Toward an Interpretation of Pratyahara in Contemporary Postural Yoga	1
Mapping methodological ecosystems in the journal Health (1997–2025): A critical scoping review	1
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery: A qualitative interview study with patients and neurosurgeons	1
Boundary-work of primary care physicians using telemedicine technologies for communication	1
As if I was a spacecraft returning to Earth’s atmosphere. Expanding insights into illness narratives and childhood cancer through evocative autoethnography	1
Pediatric oncology caregiving as narrative repair: Restor(y)ing disrupted family biographies and damaged moral identities	1
Scaffolding patient agency: Conceptualising readers’ cognitive work in the comic gutter	1
Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view	1
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life	1
The normativist-naturalist puzzle: Functions and assumptions of health assessment tools	1
Dual dependency: Conceptualisations of depression in Polish psychiatry between east and west	1
Creating an (ethical) epistemic space for the normalization of clinical and “real food” oral immunotherapy for food allergy	1
Conducting member checking within a qualitative case study on health-related behaviours in a large European city: Appraising interpretations and co-constructing findings	1