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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	41
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	30
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	19
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	15
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	15
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	14
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	13
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	13
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	12
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	11
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	11
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	11
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	11
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	11
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	10
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	10
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	9
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	9
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	9
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	9
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	9
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	9
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan	9
Women's sexual subjectivity in a Tanzania city in the era of neoliberalism and AIDS	9
‘I don’t live in my body somehow’: metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of vaginismus and dyspareunia	8

Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	8
Correction	8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	8
Growing up in the shadow of HIV: post-AIDS generation of HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sweden and their perceptions of HIV and stigma	8
Challenging the stigma of premarital sex in urban Afghanistan	8
Men who have sex with men experience low anxiety and few barriers to performing anal self or companion examinations: a qualitative study of the Prevent Anal Cancer Palpation Study	8
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	8
Exploring the identities and experiences of young queer people in Mongolia using visual research methods	8
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	8
Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda	8
‘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	8
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	8
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	8
The Beijing Rainbow Film Festival: between depoliticisation and performative activism	8
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	7
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	7
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	7
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	7
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	7
Understanding drivers of female sex workers’ experiences of external/enacted and internalised stigma: findings from a cross-sectional community-centric national study in South Africa	7
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	7
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	6
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	6
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	6
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	6
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	6
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	6
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	6
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	6
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	6
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	6
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	6
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	5
The influence of intersectional stigma on mental health, uptake and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes for gender and sexuality diverse young people in Zimbabwe	5
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	5
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	5
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	5
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA	5
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	5
Care, crisis and coalition: imagining antiprophylactic citizenship through AIDS hospice activism	5
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	5
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	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	5
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	5
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	5
‘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	5
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	5

The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	4
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	4
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
Facilitating an encounter with a new sexuality discourse: the role of civic communicators in building sexual health literacy among newly arrived migrants	4
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	4
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	4
“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal	4
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
‘It changes everything’: the impact of HIV-related stigma on sexual health and intimacy among African American women	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
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	4
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	4
Which factors contribute to sexual well-being? A comparative study among 17 to 20 year old boys and girls in Belgium and Ecuador	4
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	4
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	4
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	4