OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Media portrayals of psychotropic agents in AD/HD treatment: A social constructionist approach	18
Maintaining a medical institution in a context of materiality change: Lessons from a Canadian university hospital	15
Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms	12
How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence	11
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy	11
A narrative exploration of identity in adults with de novo scoliosis	11
‘I don’t know if there’s a happy ending to this story’: An analysis of prostate cancer narratives in a follow-up setting	10
In search of a habitable world: The long journey of women who survived breast cancer	10
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments	8
Loss, shame and secrecy in women’s experiences of a vulval skin condition: A qualitative study	7
“Lifestyle, finitude, or inequality?”: Illness explanation in Kathlyn Conway’s and Arthur Frank’s cancer memoirs	7
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation	7
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media	6
Agency, sex and drug education: Examining the response-ability of education responses to consumption, sex and harm	6
Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability	6
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis	6
Affective gaps in eHealth communication: Exploring patient experiences with health data on the eHealth platform sundhed.dk	6
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health: A systematic mapping review	5
‘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
‘To improve quality of life’: Diverging enactments of a value in nephrology clinical practices	5
Legitimacy and professional boundaries: An institutional analysis of Chinese Medicine in Mainland China and Hong Kong	5
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer	5
And they slept happily ever after: Online interpretive repertoires on the use of benzodiazepines and z-drugs	5
Narratives of reconstruction: Looking beyond biographical disruption through three Indian breast cancer memoirs	5
A bad migrant: An autoethnographic case study of racism in Australian HIV care	5

The contribution of a complex systems-based approach to progressive social resilience	5
Transgender debates and healthcare: A critical realist account	4
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	4
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	4
The mouth and oral health in the field of dementia	4
Inegalitarian effects on access to vaccines of delegating Covid-19 vaccination to a private online appointment platform: The French case	4
The IPEDs assemblage: Tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society	4
Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity	4
The unravelling of person-centred care: The value and necessity of analysing power relations in contraceptive services	4
Coexisting cancer regimes: Transformations of breast and lung cancer in the United Kingdom	4
Producing non-communicable diseases(NCD’s) as health ‘problems’ in Botswana: A critical analysis of the NCD strategy (2018–2023)	4
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	4
Navigating uncertainty in low back pain care through an ethic of openness: Learnings from a post-critical analysis	4
Sedated beauty: The invisible knife in online narratives about cosmetic breast augmentation	4
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	4