OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Intersex: cultural and social perspectives	32
Improving menstrual equity in the USA: perspectives from trans and non-binary people assigned female at birth and health care providers	28
Towards an agency-based model of intersex, variations of sex characteristics (VSC) and DSD/dsd health	27
‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press	23
Obstetric violence in a group of Italian women: socio-demographic predictors and effects on mental health	19
Muscle dysmorphia: what about transgender people?	17
Affirming and negotiating gender in family and social spaces: Stigma, mental health and resilience among transmasculine people in India	17
Gender norms and sexual consent in dating relationships: a qualitative study of university students in Vietnam	17
An investigation of Jezebel stereotype awareness, gendered racial identity and sexual beliefs and behaviours among Black adult women	16
Women’s views on communication with health care providers about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention	16
Shared decision making for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with black transgender women	14
Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia	14
‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth: mapping the evidence	12
‘I don't want to get in trouble’: a study of how adults with intellectual disabilities convert and navigate intellectual disability sexual fields	12
‘I trap her with a CD, then tomorrow find her with a big old man who bought her a smart phone’. Constructions of masculinities and transactional sex: a qualitative study from North-Western Tanzania	11
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic	11
‘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	11
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	11
PrEP uptake as a social movement among gay and bisexual men	10
‘That decision really was mine…’. Insider perspectives on health care controversies about intersex/diverse sex development	10
‘It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia	10
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	9
The grip of pandemic mononormativity in Austria and Germany	9
‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland	9

Exploring young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s PrEP knowledge in Toronto, Ontario, Canada	9
‘If she gets married when she is young, she will give birth to many kids’: a qualitative study of child marriage practices amongst nomadic pastoralist communities in Kenya	9
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	9
‘PrEP is like an adult using floaties’: meanings and new identities of PrEP among a niche sample of gay men	9
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	9
Joining the tribe: adult circumcision among immigrant men in Israel and its traumatic aftermath	8
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	8
What makes a woman? Understanding the reasons for and circumstances of female genital mutilation/cutting in Indonesia, Ethiopia and Kenya	8
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	8
Sexual and reproductive health experiences of adolescent girls and women in marginalised communities in Bangladesh	8
‘Direct’ and ‘instant’: the role of digital technology and social media in young Filipinos’ intimate relationships	8
‘Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’: reification of HIV ‘risk’ influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers	7
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	7
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	7
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	7
Coping with the stress of providing mental health-related informal support to peers in an LGBTQ context	7
Normalising intolerance: the efforts of Christian Right groups to block LGBTIQ+ inclusion in South African schools	7
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	7
Young people with a variation in sex characteristics in Aotearoa/New Zealand: identity, activism and healthcare decision-making	7
Being dragged into adulthood? Young people’s agency concerning sex, relationships and marriage in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia	7
‘I never realised that sex between two women was not safe’: narratives of lesbian safer sex	7
How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia	7
‘Safe sex’: evaluation of sex education and sexual risk by young adults in Sydney	7
What constitutes a good healthcare experience for unintended pregnancy? A qualitative study among young people in California	6
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	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
Adolescent girls’ perceived readiness for sex in Central Uganda - liminal transitions and implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions	6
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of anal sex: implications for sex education and sexual health services in England	6
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	6
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners	6
HIV testing attitudes and practices amongst 'wealthy men': qualitative evidence from Tanzania	6
Navigating the complexities of adult healthcare for individuals with variations of sex characteristics: from paediatric emergencies to a sense of abandonment	6
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	6
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	6
‘It’s history in the making all around us’: examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history	6
Structural vulnerability as a conceptual framework for transgender health research: findings from a community needs assessment of transgender women of colour in Detroit	6
Clinician imaginaries of HIV PrEP users in and beyond the gay community in Australia	6
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	5
‘Sometimes, we don’t know if we’re getting abused’: discussions of intimate partner violence and HIV risk among transgender women	5
Thai trans women’s agency and the destigmatisation of HIV-related care	5
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting	5
Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles	5
Sexting among British adults: a qualitative analysis of sexting as emotion work governed by ‘feeling rules’	5
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	5
The role of gender and romantic jealousy in intimate partner violence against women, a mixed-methods study in Northern Ecuador	5
Using photovoice to understand experiences of opioid use among sexual and gender minority youth in Vancouver, Canada	5
‘It is guiding us to protect ourselves’: a qualitative investigation into why young people engage with a mass-media HIV education campaign	5
‘I love my job…it’s more the systems that we work in’: the challenges encountered by rural sexual and reproductive health practitioners and implications for access to care	5
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	5
Conceptualisations of masculinity and sexual development among boys and young men in Korogocho slum in Kenya	5

Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	5
Mothers' perceptions of the medicalisation of female genital cutting among the Kisii population in Kenya	5
Our relationships, our values, our culture - Aboriginal young men’s perspectives about sex, relationships and gender stereotypes in Australia	5
‘With the kanyaleng and the help of god, you don’t feel ashamed’: women experiencing infertility in Casamance, Senegal	5
Perceptions of healthcare accessibility and medical mistrust among Black women living with HIV in the USA	5
Access to fertility preservation for trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
‘Eventually I wanted something more’: sexual self-reflections of South African women engaged in transactional sexual relationships with blessers	5
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	5
‘Endure and excuse’: a mixed-methods study to understand disclosure of intimate partner violence among women living with HIV in Uganda	4
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B	4
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	4
Balancing risk, intimacy and (non)compliance: a qualitative study of sex across household during COVID-19 social restrictions	4
“A man without money getting a sexual partner? It doesn’t exist in our community”: male partners’ perspectives on transactional sexual relationships in Uganda and Eswatini	4
‘My choice, my responsibility’: views of Danish and Israeli female students on financing egg-freezing	4
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	4
Authenticated social capital: conceptualising power, resistance and well-being in the lives of transgender older adults	4
Virality, desire and health assemblages: mapping (dis)continuities in the response to and management of HIV and COVID-19	4
Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa	4
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	4
South African university women's perspectives on intimate partner violence: a qualitative study of reactions to a tailored vignette	4
Male sex workers’ (in)visible risky bodies in international health development: now you see them, now you don’t	4
Trajectories of intimacy in later-life: a qualitative study of Czech and Polish narratives	4
Lifestyles, sexuality and gender: vulnerability to STIs and unplanned pregnancy among female migrant beer promoters in Lao PDR	4
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	4
Stress and coping amongst cisgender male partners of transgender women	4
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	4
Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya	4
Understanding young Black women’s socialisation and perceptions of sexual and reproductive health	4
What does it mean to be ‘porn literate’: perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Religious leaders’ role in pregnant and breastfeeding women’s decision making and willingness to use biomedical HIV prevention strategies: a multi-country analysis	4
Improving abortion underreporting in the USA: a cognitive interview study	4
Media representation, perception and stigmatisation of race, sexuality and HIV among young black gay and bisexual men	4
Women’s economic status, male authority patterns and intimate partner violence: a qualitative study in rural North West Province, South Africa	4