OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Risk & Society 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol	17
Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers	14
“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
‘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
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory	10
‘Enlightened ones who think they’re smarter than decades of research.’ Emotional-discursive analysis of epidemic narratives during the 2024 Montreal measles outbreak	10
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare: revolutionising care or amplifying new risks? A special issue of health, risk &	9
‘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
Food, bodies, health (risks): the biopolitics of organic materiality testing in the context of diet-associated health risk management practices	6
“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
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
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
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