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

Article	Citations
‘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	16
Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention	16
Italian doctors’ understandings of work-related health and safety risks among women migrant home care workers	14
The role of culture in the (re)production of inequalities of acceptable risk exposure: a case study in Singapore	13
Embracing uncertainty post-COVID-19 crisis: insights from young people	12
‘It touches my heart more when I see this…’: visual communication in the realisation of risk - the case of type 2 diabetes in Stockholm	11
Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial	11
Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’	9
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol	9
Constructing Ebola martyrs, warriors, and saviours: online heroisation in a context of risk and unease	8
Exploring the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) risk rituals: individualisation, uncertainty and social iatrogenesis	7
Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa	7
Experiences of social support among Kashmiri women with breast cancer	7
Affect mediates culture’s effects on COVID-19 risk perceptions, behavioral intentions, and policy support among americans	6
Reassessing social trust: gossip, self-policing, and Covid-19 risk communication in Norway	5
Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work	5
Culture and perceptions on cancer risk and prevention, information access, and source credibility: a qualitative interview study in Chinese adults	4
People’s understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic: social representations of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy	4
Risk and responsibility: lay perceptions of COVID-19 risk and the ‘ignorant imagined other’ in Indonesia	4
Antimicrobial resistance in the risk society – a Danish study on how veterinarians and human medical doctors construct risk through blaming	3
Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023: a risk researcher who explored the ways in which genetics touches human lives	3
Is my risk lower than yours? The role of compared risk, illness perceptions, and self-efficacy as determinants of perceived risk for COVID-19	3
On the borderline of diabetes: understanding how individuals resist and reframe diabetes risk	3
Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control	3
In the name of health: affect theory and the role of public health risks in the creation of carceral spaces	3

Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers	2
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis: an ethnographic study on the governance of the COVID-19 pandemic in a university hospital in the Netherlands	2
Organisational learning, or organised irresponsibility? Risk, opacity and lesson learning about mental health related deaths	2
Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation	2
Factors in intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine change over time: Evidence from a two-wave U.S. study	2
What is more dangerous – the disease, the vaccine or the government? Using governmentality theory to understand vaccine hesitancy among Israeli citizens in times of corona	2
Food, bodies, health (risks): the biopolitics of organic materiality testing in the context of diet-associated health risk management practices	2
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making	2
“I can go teach for 30 minutes, and then I can tell” – The risk work of teachers in Danish secondary schools	2
A trail leading home. Analysing the evolution of Mpox risk narratives and targets of blame in UK media	1
From risks to catastrophes: How Chinese Newspapers framed the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its early stage	1
Use of ‘risk’ language in breastfeeding promotional materials: US state and local health departments	1
The influence of artificial intelligence within health-related risk work: a critical framework and lines of empirical inquiry	1
Covid-19, pandemic risk and inequality: emerging social science insights at 24 months	1
Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse	1
Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject	1
Experiences and management of uncertainty following treatment for prostate cancer	1
Occupation, risk culture, and risk perception: empirical evidence from China on COVID-19	1
‘Do you think this is normal?’: risk, temporality, and the management of children’s food allergies through online support groups	1
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory	1
‘How shall we handle this situation?’ Social workers’ discussions about risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish elder care	1
The role of trust in government and risk perception in adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures: survey findings among young people in Luxembourg	1
‘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	1
“You have to be street smart”: Street capital and the social organisation of risk among people who inject drugs in Norway	1
‘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	1
Perceptions of alcohol health harm among midlife men in England: a qualitative interview study	1