OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Theory & Health 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality	12
‘You’d think they’d know’: social epistemology and informal carers of mental health service users	11
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying	9
What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?	8
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital	7
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes	7
Negative health classifications: understanding avoidance and social exclusion during a pandemic	6
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications	5
Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?	5
Experience and research: implications for mental health promotion	5
Is there power in Mad knowledge?	4
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare	3
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility	3
Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times	2
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation	2
Confiding in strangers: trust and mental health service use in China	2
Patients’ knowledge and their trust in surgical doctors. A questionnaire-based study and a theoretical discussion from Norway	2
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis	2
Whither sociological theory in the health field?	2
Extending Durkheim’s sociology of suicide to healthcare decision-making: towards a sociology of choice as a social phenomenon of integration and regulation	2
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa	2
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs	2
Street-level bureaucrat's coping strategies in health policy implementation: a comparative case study from Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Ghana	2
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe	2
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping	2

Beyond experiential knowledge: a classification of patient knowledge	1
Structural determination and social practice: towards a new understanding of ‘structure’ in health inequality research	1
What shapes local health system actors’ thinking and action on social inequalities in health? A meta-ethnography	1
Negotiating body and power in forensic mental health care	1
Correction to: Postcolonial riskscapes: risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia	1
Revisiting rural healthcare access through Held’s ethics of care	1
“Different names for the same thing”? Novelty, expectations, and performative nominalism in personalized and precision medicine	1
Categorising and cohabiting: practices as the site of biosocial becoming	1