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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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	16
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	14
Understanding social capital among young black gay and bisexual men living with HIV: a qualitative exploration	13
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	12
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	12
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	12
‘Change creates change’ – older female sex workers’ experiences through the early COVID-19 pandemic	12
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	11
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	11
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	9
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	9
‘I did not get this disease on the street; it was brought home as a gift’: Gender, violence and HIV vulnerability among Cuban women	9
“The sky is the limit; I am going there”: experiences of hope among young women receiving a conditional cash transfer in rural South Africa	9
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	9
Understanding young Black women’s socialisation and perceptions of sexual and reproductive health	9
Women’s views on communication with health care providers about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention	8
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	8
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	8
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	8
“These attitudes are a pressure”: women with disabilities’ perceptions of how stigma shapes their sexual health choices	8

Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	8
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	7
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	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
“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal	7
‘That just sounds bizarre’: factors affecting heterosexual college students’ perceptions of new sperm-targeting contraceptives	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
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	7
‘The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi	7
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B	7
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	7
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	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
‘You are looked upon as a luxury tool’: Young Tanzanian women’s perception of community norms supporting partner violence during transactional sex ( kudanga )	6
Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore	6
Exploring the role of motherhood in healthcare engagement for women living with HIV in the USA	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
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	6
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people: imagined possibilities	6
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	6
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	6
Girls’ experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom	6
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	5
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	5
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	5
Multilevel experiences of carceral violence in Los Angeles, California: first-hand accounts from a racially diverse sample of transgender women	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
Abortion in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic	5
One person, many changes: a socioecological qualitative analysis of the experiences of transfeminine individuals undergoing feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy	5
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	5
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	5
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	5
Correction	5
A decade of PrEP: the evolution of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis content and sentiments in South African print news media, 2012–2021	5
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	5
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	5
Young men who have sex with men and digital technologies for HIV prevention and care: qualitative findings from the conectad@s study	5
Between personal and social matters: identifying public perceptions of childfree decisions in Indonesia	5
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency	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
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	4
Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa	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
Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection	4
‘We need a culture change’: military sexual trauma through the lens of rape culture	4

Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	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
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners	4
South African male university students’ perspectives on gender norms concerning alcohol and related harmful behaviours towards female drinkers	4
‘My safety depends on everyone else feeling safe and good’: emotion work among transgender and gender diverse Texans	4
HIV risk management among sexual minority men in China: context, lived experience, and implications for pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation	4
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South	4
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	4
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature	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
Gender role beliefs and adolescent pregnancy in Colombia: findings from the 2015 DHS survey	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	4
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
Sexting among British adults: a qualitative analysis of sexting as emotion work governed by ‘feeling rules’	3
‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press	3
Facilitating an encounter with a new sexuality discourse: the role of civic communicators in building sexual health literacy among newly arrived migrants	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth: mapping the evidence	3
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	3
‘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	3
Prostate cancer-related sexual dysfunction – the significance of social relations in men’s reconstructions of masculinity	3
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	3
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	3
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	3
Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care	3
Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India	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
Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction: experiences of Pacific Christian adults in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland	3
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	3
‘Direct’ and ‘instant’: the role of digital technology and social media in young Filipinos’ intimate relationships	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
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
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
Framing HIV and AIDS: how leaders of black religious institutions in New York City interpret and address sex and sexuality in their HIV interventions	3
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	3