OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual orientation labelling: relational processes of trans identity development	32
A new sexual wellbeing paradigm grounded in capability approach concepts of human flourishing and social justice	28
“Agape love is justice”: Black clergies’ public and theological support of Black gay men	23
Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey	23
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	19
Balancing risk, intimacy and (non)compliance: a qualitative study of sex across household during COVID-19 social restrictions	17
Understanding social capital among young black gay and bisexual men living with HIV: a qualitative exploration	16
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	16
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	14
‘Change creates change’ – older female sex workers’ experiences through the early COVID-19 pandemic	14
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	13
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	12
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	12
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	12
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	12
“The sky is the limit; I am going there”: experiences of hope among young women receiving a conditional cash transfer in rural South Africa	11
‘I did not get this disease on the street; it was brought home as a gift’: Gender, violence and HIV vulnerability among Cuban women	11
Understanding young Black women’s socialisation and perceptions of sexual and reproductive health	9
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	9
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	9
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	9
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	9
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	9
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	8
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	8

“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal	8
“These attitudes are a pressure”: women with disabilities’ perceptions of how stigma shapes their sexual health choices	8
‘That just sounds bizarre’: factors affecting heterosexual college students’ perceptions of new sperm-targeting contraceptives	8
Women’s views on communication with health care providers about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention	8
Gender norms and sexual consent in dating relationships: a qualitative study of university students in Vietnam	8
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	7
Abortion in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic	7
Relating ‘to her Human Side’: a Grounded Theory analysis of cosmetologists’ and aestheticians’ relationships with clients in Black American beauty salons to inform sexual health interventions	7
Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore	7
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	7
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B	7
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people: imagined possibilities	7
Interpersonal violence victimisation, HIV-related behaviours and STIs among adult, urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Guatemala	7
‘The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi	7
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	7
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	7
‘You are looked upon as a luxury tool’: Young Tanzanian women’s perception of community norms supporting partner violence during transactional sex ( kudanga )	6
The end point of it is abstinence: a qualitative analysis of underlying factors influencing Christian leaders’ adoption and implementation of sex and sexuality education in Bolgatanga, Ghana	6
‘No test, no disease’: Multilevel barriers to HIV testing among young men who have sex with men and transgender women in three semi-urban areas in Thailand	6
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion	6
Girls’ experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom	6
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	6
Exploring the role of motherhood in healthcare engagement for women living with HIV in the USA	6
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	6
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	6
‘I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider’: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system	6
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	6
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	6
Between personal and social matters: identifying public perceptions of childfree decisions in Indonesia	5
Young men who have sex with men and digital technologies for HIV prevention and care: qualitative findings from the conectad@s study	5
Multilevel experiences of carceral violence in Los Angeles, California: first-hand accounts from a racially diverse sample of transgender women	5
A decade of PrEP: the evolution of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis content and sentiments in South African print news media, 2012–2021	5
‘The abortion gave me my life back’: the long-term impact of access to self-managed medication abortion through telemedicine on women’s lives in legally restricted countries	5
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection	5
‘We need a culture change’: military sexual trauma through the lens of rape culture	5
Correction	5
“You feel like you’re fairly disadvantaged with an advert over your head saying ‘in final years of reproduction’”: social egg freezing, dating and the (unequal) politics of reproductive ageing	5
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
‘My safety depends on everyone else feeling safe and good’: emotion work among transgender and gender diverse Texans	5
HIV risk management among sexual minority men in China: context, lived experience, and implications for pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation	5
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	5
One person, many changes: a socioecological qualitative analysis of the experiences of transfeminine individuals undergoing feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy	5
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	5
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	5
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	5
Gender role beliefs and adolescent pregnancy in Colombia: findings from the 2015 DHS survey	5
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	5
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	4
Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care	4

Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	4
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	4
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature	4
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners	4
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya	4
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	4
‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction	4
South African male university students’ perspectives on gender norms concerning alcohol and related harmful behaviours towards female drinkers	4
Framing HIV and AIDS: how leaders of black religious institutions in New York City interpret and address sex and sexuality in their HIV interventions	4
Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa	4
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal	4
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South	4
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
The medicalisation of female genital cutting in Kenya: a threefold exposition	4
Indigenous men’s pathways to ‘living the right kind of life and walking the right path’ post incarceration in Canada: understanding the impacts of systemic oppression, and guidance for healing and (w)	4
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	4
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	4
Is sex lost in translation? Linguistic and conceptual issues in the translation of sexual and reproductive health surveys	4
Facilitating an encounter with a new sexuality discourse: the role of civic communicators in building sexual health literacy among newly arrived migrants	3
Re-membering HIV in the Black Church: women’s religious and social identity in relation to perceived risk and men on the down low	3
Prostate cancer-related sexual dysfunction – the significance of social relations in men’s reconstructions of masculinity	3
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	3
Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework	3
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	3
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	3
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	3
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	3
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	3
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	3
‘It’s history in the making all around us’: examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history	3
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	3
‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland	3
‘Just be strong and keep going’: the influence of Superwoman Schema on Black women’s perceived expectations of coping with sexual pain	3
Viral forgetting, or how to have ignorance in a syndemic	3
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	3
Sexting among British adults: a qualitative analysis of sexting as emotion work governed by ‘feeling rules’	3
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	3
Using the behaviour change wheel to examine facilitators and barriers to assertive contraception-use conversations for Indonesian women	3
South African university women's perspectives on intimate partner violence: a qualitative study of reactions to a tailored vignette	3
Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina	3
The invisibility of Black and Latina women in sexual health care: shifting from biological individualism to intersectionality	3
‘Direct’ and ‘instant’: the role of digital technology and social media in young Filipinos’ intimate relationships	3
‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press	3