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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying	42
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality	12
“They are not almighty god, they are doctors, they are human”: a qualitative study of mechanisms underlying epistemic injustices in chronic pain patients’ testimonies	10
A critical interpretive synthesis to reimagine caring for people with a chronic and persistent mental illness in palliative care	9
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes	8
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications	6
Negative health classifications: understanding avoidance and social exclusion during a pandemic	6
Experience and research: implications for mental health promotion	5
Is there power in Mad knowledge?	5
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility	5
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare	4
An explorative study on the challenges of solidarity in public health practice and teaching	4
Conspiracy theory as a component of religious biopolitics	4
Solidarity and recognition of identity: the case of informal care	4
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs	3
Cultural competence for drug addiction and recovery: considerations for research and evaluation	3
Mothering with migraine	3
“It has to somehow permeate to the public”: expert views on the solidaristic potential of Israel’s National genomic biobank initiative	3
Enacting and re-politicising co-design: a critical perspective on eHealth interventions	3
The lived experience of chronic physical health conditions: an evaluation of the conceptual resources of epistemic injustice	2
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
Whither sociological theory in the health field?	2
Health lifestyles at work: availability, barriers and participation in workplace wellness	2
Street-level bureaucrat's coping strategies in health policy implementation: a comparative case study from Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Ghana	2

Power relations and role boundaries between community first responders and ambulance clinicians in England: a qualitative study	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
Is solidarity a social determinant of health? Conceptual challenges in thinking about solidarity in health and healthcare	1
Risk management in a global market of alternative addiction care: a case study of the ibogaine medical subculture	1
Global implications of diabetes biomedicalization	1
Beyond experiential knowledge: a classification of patient knowledge	1
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping	1
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe	1
Confiding in strangers: trust and mental health service use in China	1
Navigating benign-prostate-enlargement or prostate-cancer in Japan: Biographical disruptions, ethno-healthism and gender	1
Can a population-level shock cause individual distress beyond what individual experience can explain? Proof-of-concept and motivating evidence for the structural hypothesis for population health	1
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa	1
Milky bonds: exploring solidarity in human milk banking	1
Engagement and qualitative sociology in health research: proximal, but incongruent	1
Categorising and cohabiting: practices as the site of biosocial becoming	1
Correction to: Postcolonial riskscapes: risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia	1