OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Action Research 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A clear center but no clear boundaries.’ The construction of professional identities in spiritual care through boundary work in participatory action research within health care	17
Earth for all: Five policy turnarounds for a sustainable world	15
Action Researchers Book++ Review	15
Epistemic injustice and dissidence: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on Participatory Action Research hosted on the Web of Science	12
Autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research: Bearing witness to developmental transformations for college student activists	11
New Methodology Allowed	10
Comadrisma as Method: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Community Based Participatory Action Research	10
“I don’t like to ask for charity”: The possibilities of social inclusion among immigrant low-income Latina mothers via feminist action research	10
Towards right to work: A reflexive analysis on an action research	8
The power of co-action research: Editorial	8
Decolonizing and Transforming the Engagement of Indigenous and Black People Within Municipal Planning – Lessons Learned	7
Methodology for a time of eco-social planetary crisis: Action research helping transformations happen	7
University and democratization: A training project in action research with social movements	6
Restorative action research: Fostering wellbeing as a collective, relational, vital endeavor	6
From Franchise to Masyarakat : Rethinking Transmedia Storytelling as a Community-Centred Design Framework	6
Preparing educational leaders through action research	5
Extending co-operative inquiry beyond the human: Ontopoetic inquiry with rivers	5
Reflections from an insider researcher ‘doing’ feminist participatory action research to co-produce a research agenda with British Pakistani women; a seldom heard group	5
Shared Journals and Fourth Person Knowing Across Cultures and Between Generations. A Guide for Movement Building With Joy, Mutual Respect and Lasting Impact	5
Reconfiguring Relationships: Social Innovation, Action Research, and Transformation	5
(En)tangled Ethics and Relational Mobilities: Reflections on Decolonial Feminist Digital Participatory Action Research	5
Co-creating organizational welfare through action-research: Insights from the case of a social cooperative	4
Moving at the Speed of Trust: A Strengths-Based Analysis of a Participatory Storytelling Project with and for Criminalized Peoples	4
Breaking through bureaucracy. Action research as puzzling, powering and problem-solving	3
Strengthening Reflexivity Through Trauma- and Violence-Informed Practice in Action Research	3

Co-creating with teachers during participatory action research: Teachers’ perceptions, researchers’ dilemmas, and some possible strategies to enhance communication in the field	3
In Memoriam Bill Torbert: Timely Action to the End	3
Shamefully Stuck to Joyfully Jammed? Reflexivity in Researching Stuckness	3
It’s a Mindset Revolution! Co-creating inclusive spaces of participation on youth mental health	3
Still in the Thick of it: A Duoethnographic Account Navigating and Challenging the Institutional PhD Through Participatory and Action-Oriented Research	3
First-Person Insights From Appreciative Inquiry as Insider Action Research: How to Integrate the Shadow Into Appreciation	3
Co-designing interventions with on-going circular initiatives to accelerate transformative change	2
Edgar H. Schein 1928-2023: A Reflective Appreciation by David Coghlan	2
Book Review: for Action Research Journal - Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild	2
The debt diaries: Turning participatory ethnography into action research	2
Antiracism in appreciative inquiry: Generative tensions and collective reflexivity	2
How to do action research for transformations at a time of eco-social crisis, by Hilary S. Bradbury. Elgar, 2022. Four characters in search of a book review	2
Systematization of the methodology of children and adolescents as co-researchers. The research case on school engagement and contextual factors in Chile	2
Action research: Time to act with maturity	2
Empathy in action research	2
Centering Indigenous Knowledges in Community-Based Participatory Research	2
Conflicts as Opportunities in Co-Design: Leveraging Participatory Approaches for Urban Policy and Planning	1
Transforming collaboration between communities and non-governmental organisations: Reflections on learning spaces in Central-Eastern Uganda	1
A dynamic regional branding process as a governance tool for sustainability transitions	1
From ‘Master and Servants’ to ‘Equal Partners’ in a Health Community: Transforming local mental health services by action research and social innovation	1
How long-term emancipatory programming facilitates participatory evaluation: Building a methodology of participation through research with youth in Honduras	1
Collaborative, Action-Oriented Research in Asian Psychology: An Example From Singapore	1
Nurturing transformative spaces to challenge technocratic hegemony: Leveraging informality in Indian cities	1
What we carry within us shapes our action research	1
Horizontal and Vertical: The Dimensions of Power and Action	1
Action Researching for Transformations is Anti Patriarchy Work	1
Action Research Pedagogy in Educational Institutions: Emancipatory, Relational, Critical and Contextual	1
Journeying into Right Relations: Scientists Turn to Psilocybin to Shift Psychological Burdens of Global Environmental Change and Find Transformational Pathways Forward	1
Action research cultures: Transforming university systems, norms, and practices	1
ARJ special issue: The inner journey and mindset shifts of transformation	1
Mindsets of Transformation: Consciously Entangled Action and Research With a Responsive World	1
My Documents, Check Them out : A Game-Based Method to Engage Border-Crossers in the Re-Design of Migration Infrastructures	1
Women to Women Research for Economic Empowerment in Uganda: A Feminist Participatory Action Research Project	1
Consolidating strategies for innovative business models	1
Benefits of reflection-based monitoring in action research projects	1
Subtle Leadership: How Individual and Collective Consciousness Intertwine to Create Change	1
Culturing Developmental Friendship for a Politics of Love	1
Heartbeat recordings in music therapy bereavement care following suicide: Action research single case study of amplified cardiopulmonary recordings for continuity of care	1
John Heron 1928-2022: A personal memoir by Peter Reason	1
Applying ‘merging of knowledge’ in Tanzania: What can we learn about interrupting patterned relationships to reveal hidden dimensions of poverty?	1
Digital storytelling within a community-based mental health improvement programme (ARCLIGHT) in Guyana	1
‘Taking knowledge on a journey’: Creating conditions for epistemic justice	1
Participatory action research: A tool to develop occupational health and safety education for new immigrant workers	1