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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol	17
“The mortar between the bricks of the services”: how third sector staff’s risk work supported people who were homeless to access healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers	14
‘How shall we handle this situation?’ Social workers’ discussions about risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish elder care	11
Risk factors for mental health and wellness: children’s perspectives from five Majority World Countries	11
‘Enlightened ones who think they’re smarter than decades of research.’ Emotional-discursive analysis of epidemic narratives during the 2024 Montreal measles outbreak	10
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory	10
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare: revolutionising care or amplifying new risks? A special issue of health, risk &	9
Food, bodies, health (risks): the biopolitics of organic materiality testing in the context of diet-associated health risk management practices	6
‘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	6
In the name of health: affect theory and the role of public health risks in the creation of carceral spaces	5
The plurality and shifting of framing genetical modification risks on Chinese social media	5
‘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	5
‘It’s not disrespect – it’s putting you at risk’: when right meets risk in the field of cycling research & policy	5
“No longer morally justifiable” temporal dynamics of care, or how AI made waiting unethical	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
Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa	4
Stronger than partisanship and motivated reasoning: news exposure and news frames predicting US state-level preventive behaviours against COVID-19	4
‘I don’t think there’s many British African Caribbean men that talk positively about mental health services’: Risk, trust, racism and the Mental Health Act	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
Visuals’ function in health risk reporting: juxtaposing the academic conceptualisations with journalistic perceptions	4
Early life, risk and blame: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) in the news, 1988–2023	4
The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance	4
Exploring how communicating risk can impact maternal self-worth and esteem for women who smoke in an antenatal service setting	4
The role of trust in government and risk perception in adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures: survey findings among young people in Luxembourg	3

The yin and yang of safety and risk: a content analysis and critical narrative synthesis exploring the conceptualisation of risk in the stroke rehabilitation literature	3
Factors in intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine change over time: Evidence from a two-wave U.S. study	3
Translating epigenetics into antenatal care in Australia: communicating risk and intergenerational health in practice	3
“You have to be street smart”: Street capital and the social organisation of risk among people who inject drugs in Norway	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
Assembled knowledges and situated choices: women’s understandings and practices concerning childbirth risks in urban China	3
Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial	2
Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023: a risk researcher who explored the ways in which genetics touches human lives	2
Situating HIV risk in barbershops: accounts of knowledge and practices from barbers in Nigeria	2
Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work	2
Romantic partners’ meanings of risk during COVID-19: the role of socioeconomic factors	2
Anxiety and trust in times of health crisis: How parents navigated health risks during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	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
Italian doctors’ understandings of work-related health and safety risks among women migrant home care workers	2
Recalibrating temporalities of risk: alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk for Australian women pre-midlife before and during COVID-19	2
‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population study	1
Experiences and management of uncertainty following treatment for prostate cancer	1
Managing uncertainty in multidisciplinary renal team meetings: decision-making processes and complex challenges in kidney transplant listing	1
Embracing uncertainty post-COVID-19 crisis: insights from young people	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
The desired body image and steroid use: intersectionality and risk-taking among Malay men in a Malaysian public gym	1
Use of ‘risk’ language in breastfeeding promotional materials: US state and local health departments	1
Governing pregnancy in the Global South: the case of post-apartheid South Africa	1
‘Polony panic’: News values and risk messages in news coverage of the South African listeriosis outbreak of 2017–2018	1
Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention	1
Risk and responsibility: lay perceptions of COVID-19 risk and the ‘ignorant imagined other’ in Indonesia	1
The influence of artificial intelligence within health-related risk work: a critical framework and lines of empirical inquiry	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
‘The air is a little too dangerous’: how children navigate between rules and risks in times of COVID-19	1
Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’	1
Reassessing social trust: gossip, self-policing, and Covid-19 risk communication in Norway	1