OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Risk & Society is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol	16
Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers	13
Risk factors for mental health and wellness: children’s perspectives from five Majority World Countries	12
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory	11
‘How shall we handle this situation?’ Social workers’ discussions about risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish elder care	10
‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are what we have’: neoliberal governmentality and the governance of Covid-19 risk in social media posts in Turkey	9
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare: revolutionising care or amplifying new risks? A special issue of health, risk &	9
‘Assessing my risk and that of my whānau is my right’: a longitudinal media analysis of risk and COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand news media	7
In the name of health: affect theory and the role of public health risks in the creation of carceral spaces	7
Food, bodies, health (risks): the biopolitics of organic materiality testing in the context of diet-associated health risk management practices	7
“No longer morally justifiable” temporal dynamics of care, or how AI made waiting unethical	5
The plurality and shifting of framing genetical modification risks on Chinese social media	5
‘If you know the person, there are no risks’: ‘in-between’ strategies for reducing HIV sexual risk among young sub-Saharan migrants living in Switzerland	5
Visuals’ function in health risk reporting: juxtaposing the academic conceptualisations with journalistic perceptions	5
‘It’s not disrespect – it’s putting you at risk’: when right meets risk in the field of cycling research & policy	5
Exploring how communicating risk can impact maternal self-worth and esteem for women who smoke in an antenatal service setting	5
Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa	4
The role of trust in government and risk perception in adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures: survey findings among young people in Luxembourg	4
The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance	4
‘It touches my heart more when I see this…’: visual communication in the realisation of risk - the case of type 2 diabetes in Stockholm	4
Stronger than partisanship and motivated reasoning: news exposure and news frames predicting US state-level preventive behaviours against COVID-19	4
“You have to be street smart”: Street capital and the social organisation of risk among people who inject drugs in Norway	3
Factors in intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine change over time: Evidence from a two-wave U.S. study	3
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making	3
Recalibrating temporalities of risk: alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk for Australian women pre-midlife before and during COVID-19	3

Anxiety and trust in times of health crisis: How parents navigated health risks during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	3
Assembled knowledges and situated choices: women’s understandings and practices concerning childbirth risks in urban China	3
Situating HIV risk in barbershops: accounts of knowledge and practices from barbers in Nigeria	2
Italian doctors’ understandings of work-related health and safety risks among women migrant home care workers	2
Experiences and management of uncertainty following treatment for prostate cancer	2
Use of ‘risk’ language in breastfeeding promotional materials: US state and local health departments	2
Risk individualisation and moral injury in the treatment of infection as impediments to the tackling of antimicrobial resistance	2
The role of culture in the (re)production of inequalities of acceptable risk exposure: a case study in Singapore	2
Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work	2
Governing pregnancy in the Global South: the case of post-apartheid South Africa	2
Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial	2
Romantic partners’ meanings of risk during COVID-19: the role of socioeconomic factors	2
The influence of artificial intelligence within health-related risk work: a critical framework and lines of empirical inquiry	2
Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023: a risk researcher who explored the ways in which genetics touches human lives	2
‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population study	1
Embracing uncertainty post-COVID-19 crisis: insights from young people	1
Reassessing social trust: gossip, self-policing, and Covid-19 risk communication in Norway	1
Occupation, risk culture, and risk perception: empirical evidence from China on COVID-19	1
‘The air is a little too dangerous’: how children navigate between rules and risks in times of COVID-19	1
‘Polony panic’: News values and risk messages in news coverage of the South African listeriosis outbreak of 2017–2018	1
Managing uncertainty in multidisciplinary renal team meetings: decision-making processes and complex challenges in kidney transplant listing	1
People’s understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic: social representations of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy	1
Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation	1
Dirty lives, wild birds, clean places, and exceptional health: a critical discourse analysis of Danish and Norwegian news coverage of avian influenza risk	1
Reconfiguration of the boundaries of occupational risk prevention observed during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of personal protective equipment and collective protection in France	1
Risk and responsibility: lay perceptions of COVID-19 risk and the ‘ignorant imagined other’ in Indonesia	1
Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject	1
Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention	1
Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’	1