OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Action Research is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	16
Artfulness in the Organisational Playground: Actions and choices-Editorial	12
Action Researchers Book++ Review	9
Earth for all: Five policy turnarounds for a sustainable world	9
Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home	8
Autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research: Bearing witness to developmental transformations for college student activists	8
“I don’t like to ask for charity”: The possibilities of social inclusion among immigrant low-income Latina mothers via feminist action research	8
Epistemic injustice and dissidence: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on Participatory Action Research hosted on the Web of Science	8
Comadrisma as Method: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Community Based Participatory Action Research	6
University and democratization: A training project in action research with social movements	5
Towards right to work: A reflexive analysis on an action research	5
The power of co-action research: Editorial	5
Preparing educational leaders through action research	4
Restorative action research: Fostering wellbeing as a collective, relational, vital endeavor	4
Methodology for a time of eco-social planetary crisis: Action research helping transformations happen	4
Imaginal knowing in action research	4
Extending co-operative inquiry beyond the human: Ontopoetic inquiry with rivers	4
Co-creating organizational welfare through action-research: Insights from the case of a social cooperative	4
Reflections from an insider researcher ‘doing’ feminist participatory action research to co-produce a research agenda with British Pakistani women; a seldom heard group	4
Breaking through bureaucracy. Action research as puzzling, powering and problem-solving	3
Book Review: for Action Research Journal - Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild	3
Co-creating with teachers during participatory action research: Teachers’ perceptions, researchers’ dilemmas, and some possible strategies to enhance communication in the field	3
Reconfiguring Relationships: Social Innovation, Action Research, and Transformation	3
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	3
It’s a Mindset Revolution! Co-creating inclusive spaces of participation on youth mental health	3

First-Person Insights From Appreciative Inquiry as Insider Action Research: How to Integrate the Shadow Into Appreciation	3
Empathy in action research	3