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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors associated with the belief in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories in Pakistan	16
On the borderline of diabetes: understanding how individuals resist and reframe diabetes risk	16
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	14
From risks to catastrophes: How Chinese Newspapers framed the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its early stage	13
Risk and intersectional power relations: an exploration of the implications of early COVID-19 pandemic responses for pregnant women	12
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory	11
Anxiety and trust in times of health crisis: How parents navigated health risks during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	11
Covid-19, pandemic risk and inequality: emerging social science insights at 24 months	9
Beyond ‘the choice to drink’ in a UK guideline on FASD: the precautionary principle, pregnancy surveillance, and the managed woman	9
People’s understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic: social representations of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy	8
‘The more you go to the mountains, the better parent you are’. Migrant parents in Norway navigating risk discourses in professional advice on family leisure and outdoor play	8
A qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perceived risks and benefits of psychiatric electroceutical interventions	7
Is my risk lower than yours? The role of compared risk, illness perceptions, and self-efficacy as determinants of perceived risk for COVID-19	7
Experiences of social support among Kashmiri women with breast cancer	7
Linking environmental risks and cancer risks within the framework of genetic-behavioural causal beliefs, cancer fatalism, and macrosocial worry	6
Constructing Ebola martyrs, warriors, and saviours: online heroisation in a context of risk and unease	6
Life ‘on high alert’: how do people with a family history of motor neurone disease make sense of genetic risk? insights from an online forum	5
What is Risk? Four Approaches to the Embodiment of Health Risk in Public Health	5
‘How shall we handle this situation?’ Social workers’ discussions about risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish elder care	4
‘Do you think this is normal?’: risk, temporality, and the management of children’s food allergies through online support groups	4
Translating risk: how social workers’ epistemological assumptions shape the way they share knowledge	4
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	3
“I can go teach for 30 minutes, and then I can tell” – The risk work of teachers in Danish secondary schools	3
‘It’s not disrespect – it’s putting you at risk’: when right meets risk in the field of cycling research & policy	3
The role of culture in the (re)production of inequalities of acceptable risk exposure: a case study in Singapore	3

Rethinking the knowledge-attitudes model and introducing belief in human evolution: examining antecedents of public acceptability of human gene editing	3
Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject	3
Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control	2
Managing risk, managing affects: The emerging biopolitics of HIV neutrality	2
The role of trust in government and risk perception in adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures: survey findings among young people in Luxembourg	2
Reassessing social trust: gossip, self-policing, and Covid-19 risk communication in Norway	2
Difficult dialogues about death: applying risk orders theory to analyse chaplains’ provision of end-of-life care	2
‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population 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
Managing risk: social workers’ intervention strategies in cases of domestic abuse against people with learning disabilities	2
Perceptions of alcohol health harm among midlife men in England: a qualitative interview study	2
Visuals’ function in health risk reporting: juxtaposing the academic conceptualisations with journalistic perceptions	1
‘The air is a little too dangerous’: how children navigate between rules and risks in times of COVID-19	1
Organisational learning, or organised irresponsibility? Risk, opacity and lesson learning about mental health related deaths	1
Volition to risk taking in the ordinary activities of daily life of older people living at home alone. A study using explicitation interviews	1
Culture and perceptions on cancer risk and prevention, information access, and source credibility: a qualitative interview study in Chinese adults	1
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol	1
‘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	1
Risk individualisation and moral injury in the treatment of infection as impediments to the tackling of antimicrobial resistance	1
Recalibrating temporalities of risk: alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk for Australian women pre-midlife before and during COVID-19	1
(En)gendering risk: gender dynamics, trust and risk negotiations among drug-using couples	1
Health and illness as drivers of risk language in the news media – a case study ofThe Times	1
Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work	1
‘It touches my heart more when I see this…’: visual communication in the realisation of risk - the case of type 2 diabetes in Stockholm	1
‘Polony panic’: News values and risk messages in news coverage of the South African listeriosis outbreak of 2017–2018	1
Emotional risk work during the pandemic: Healthcare professionals’ perceptions from a COVID-19 ward	1
Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse	1
Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation	1
Risk and responsibility: lay perceptions of COVID-19 risk and the ‘ignorant imagined other’ in Indonesia	1
Exploring the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) risk rituals: individualisation, uncertainty and social iatrogenesis	1
Italian doctors’ understandings of work-related health and safety risks among women migrant home care workers	1