OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research	111
Comprehensive sexuality education in sub-Saharan Africa: adaptation and implementation challenges in universal access for children and adolescents	31
Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws?	29
Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia	24
Impacts of COVID-19 on contraceptive and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	23
Mapping the scientific literature on reproductive health among transgender and gender diverse people: a scoping review	21
Seeking synergies: understanding the evidence that links menstrual health and sexual and reproductive health and rights	20
Global impacts of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and abortion regression in the United States	19
Applications of the High Impact Practices in Family Planning during COVID-19	17
Healthy sexuality development in adolescence: proposing a competency-based framework to inform programmes and research	16
School and work absenteeism due to menstruation in three West African countries: findings from PMA2020 surveys	16
Abortion hotlines around the world: a mixed-methods systematic and descriptive review	15
Giving voice to the end-user: input on multipurpose prevention technologies from the perspectives of young women in Kenya and South Africa	14
In-person later abortion accompaniment: a feminist collective-facilitated self-care practice in Latin America	13
The nature of obstetric violence and the organisational context of its manifestation in India: a systematic review	12
Age of consent: challenges and contradictions of sexual violence laws in India	12
Moving ahead together, on a foundation of rights-based evidence	11
Coming of age: a qualitative study of adolescent girls’ menstrual preparedness in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Jordan	11
Reproductive empowerment and contraceptive self-care: a systematic review	11
Early marriage among Syrian refugees in Jordan: exploring contested meanings through ethnography	10
“No one should be alone in living this process”: trajectories, experiences and user’s perceptions about quality of abortion care in a telehealth service in Chile	10
Perceptions of and barriers to HIV testing of women in Indonesia	10
Assessing the health, social, educational and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid review of the literature	10
Factors influencing abortion decisions, delays, and experiences with abortion accompaniment in Mexico among women living outside Mexico City: results from a cross-sectional study	10
Policies and actions to reduce maternal mortality in Nepal: perspectives of key informants	10

The East and Southern Africa Ministerial Commitment: a review of progress toward fulfilling young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights (2013–2018)	9
Women’s decision-making and contraceptive use in Pakistan: an analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data	9
“I don’t regret it at all. It’s just I wish the process had a bit more humanity to it … a bit more holistic”: a qualitative, community-led medication abortion study with Black and Latinx Women	9
Men’s involvement in women’s abortion-related care: a scoping review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries	9
Challenges and facilitators to the provision of sexual, reproductive health and rights services in Ghana	9
Self-administration of gender-affirming hormones: a systematic review of effectiveness, cost, and values and preferences of end-users and health workers	9
Harmful practices prevail despite legal knowledge: a mixed-method study on the paradox of child marriage in Bangladesh	8
Priority-setting to integrate sexual and reproductive health into universal health coverage: the case of Malaysia	8
The missing link in Kenya’s universal health coverage experiment: a preventive and promotive approach to SRHR	8
“Doulas shouldn’t be considered visitors, we should be considered a part of [the] team”: doula care in Georgia, USA during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Breaking the silence around infertility: a scoping review of interventions addressing infertility-related gendered stigmatisation in low- and middle-income countries	8
Understanding changes made to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	7
A qualitative exploration of the salience of MTV-Shuga, an edutainment programme, and adolescents’ engagement with sexual and reproductive health information in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	7
Muslim men’s perceptions and attitudes on family planning: a qualitative study in Wajir and Lamu counties in Kenya	7
Women’s experiences of marital rape and sexual violence within marriage in India: evidence from service records	7
Economic and social dimensions influencing safety of induced abortions amongst young women who sell sex in Zimbabwe	7
Informal payments for family planning: prevalence and perspectives of women, providers, and health sector key informants in western Kenya	7
Digital self-care for improved access to family planning and reproductive health services among adolescents in Rwanda: preliminary findings from a pilot study of CyberRwanda	7
Slowing progress: the US Global Gag Rule undermines access to contraception in Madagascar	6
Revolution in abortion care? Perspectives of key informants on the importance of abortion method choice in the era of telemedicine	6
Mental health, economic well-being and health care access amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study among urban men who have sex with men in India	6
Estimating induced abortion incidence and the use of non-recommended abortion methods and sources in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa and Kongo Central) in 2021: results	6
Permeability of abortion care in the Netherlands: a qualitative analysis of women’s experiences, health professional perspectives, and the internet resource of Women on Web	6
Sexuality and relationship experiences of women with spinal cord injury: reflections from an Indian context	6
Health benefit packages: moving from aspiration to action for improved access to quality SRHR through UHC reforms.	6
People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision	6
Obstacles and opportunities: a qualitative study of the experiences of abortion centre staff with abortion care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Flanders, Belgium	6
Lubricants for the promotion of sexual health and well-being: a systematic review	6
Measuring unmet need for contraception among women in rural areas of Papua New Guinea	6
Improving menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls in tribal areas of Gujarat: an evaluation of an implementation model integrating the government service delivery system	6
Sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice in the war against Ukraine 2022	6
Sex work or transactional sex? Shifting the dialogue from risk to rights	5
Uptake and provision of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health: findings from a global values and preferences survey	5
Supporting contraceptive choice in self-care: qualitative exploration of beliefs and attitudes towards emergency contraceptive pills and on-demand use in Accra, Ghana and Lusaka, Zambia	5
Ageing in obscurity: a critical literature review regarding older intersex people	5
Peer education interventions for HIV prevention and sexual health with young people in Mekong Region countries: a scoping review and conceptual framework	5
Protecting women: new domestic violence countermeasures for COVID-19 in Japan	5
Review of the inclusion of SRHR interventions in essential packages of health services in low- and lower-middle income countries	5
“Other risks don't stop”: adapting a youth sexual and reproductive health intervention in Zimbabwe during COVID-19	5
Climate change and sexual and reproductive health: what implications for future research?	5
Overcoming challenges in research on self-managed medical abortion: lessons from a collaborative activist–researcher partnership	5
Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda	5
Pregnancy recognition trajectories: a needed framework	5
Medical abortion ratios and gender equality in Europe: an ecological correlation study	5
Measuring women’s agency in family planning: the conceptual and structural factors in the way	5
Can universal health coverage eliminate unsafe abortion?	5
Priorities for sexual and reproductive health in Morocco as part of universal health coverage: maternal health as a national priority	5
The impact of policy changes from the perspective of providers of family planning care in the US: results from a qualitative study	5
Good progress in a number of areas of ASRH, but there is much more that needs to be done	4
Law, human rights and gender in practice: an analysis of lessons from implementation of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health	4

Caste in Muslim Pakistan: a structural determinant of inequities in the uptake of maternal health services	4
The design and delivery of out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education from the perspective of the young people it is intended to serve	4
Intimate partner violence, food insecurity and COVID-19 among newly married women in Nawalparasi district of Nepal: a longitudinal study	4
A qualitative inquiry into pregnant women’s perceptions of respectful maternity care during childbirth in Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria	4
Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review	4
Feasibility of HPV self-sampling pathway in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal using a human-centred design approach	4
Missed period? The significance of period-tracking applications in a post-Roe America	4
Web-based searching for abortion information during health emergencies: a case study of Brazil during the 2015/2016 Zika outbreak	4
A qualitative exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped experiences of self-managed medication abortion with accompaniment group support in Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela	4
Education as an enabler, not a requirement: ensuring access to self-care options for all	4
Pregnancy coercion, correlates, and associated modern contraceptive use within a nationally representative sample of Ethiopian women	4
Safe abortion within the Venezuelan complex humanitarian emergency: understanding context as key to identifying the potential for digital self-care tools in expanding access	4
Social and economic marginalisation and sexual and reproductive health and rights of urban poor young women: a qualitative study from Vadodara, Gujarat, India	4
The cost-effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health and rights interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	4
Women’s experiences using drugs to induce abortion acquired in the informal sector in Colombia: qualitative interviews with users in Bogotá and the Coffee Axis	4
Obstetric violence in the United States and other high-income countries: an integrative review	3
“Our mothers do not tell us”: a qualitative study of adolescent girls’ perspectives on sexual and reproductive health in rural Nepal	3
“It’s not safe for me and what would it achieve?” Acceptability of patient-referral partner notification for sexually transmitted infections to young people, a mixed methods study from Zimbabwe	3
Immigrant women’s perspectives on contraceptive counselling provided by midwives in Sweden – a qualitative study	3
“We are nurses – what can we say?”: power asymmetries and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives in an Indian state	3
Restrictions on contraceptive services for unmarried youth: a qualitative study of providers’ beliefs and attitudes in India	3
A pronatalist turn in population policies in Iran and its likely adverse impacts on reproductive rights, health and inequality: a critical narrative review	3
Towards renewed commitment to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity: learning from 30 years of maternal health priorities	3
Comprehensive sexuality education for the most disadvantaged young people: findings from formative research in Ethiopia	3
Association between the place of abortion and post-abortion contraceptive adoption and continuation: the case of India	3
The case for the use of telehealth for abortion in India	3
Contraceptive access experiences and perspectives of Mexican-origin youth: a binational qualitative study	3
“I’m neither here, which would be bad, nor there, which would be good”: the information needs of HPV+ women. A qualitative study based on in-depth interviews and counselling sessions in Jujuy, Argenti	3
An investigation of the impact of the Global Gag Rule on women’s sexual and reproductive health outcomes in Uganda: a difference-in-differences analysis	3
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of “last mile” adolescents: a scoping review	3
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on abortion care: a time series analysis of data from Marie Stopes Nepal	3
Policy surveillance for a global analysis of national abortion laws	3
Examining access to sexual and reproductive health services and information for young women with disabilities in Senegal: a qualitative study	3
Love, sex, and commitment: relationship choices and trajectories among unmarried youth in India	3
“A daily reminder of an ugly incident … ”: analysis of debate on rape and incest exceptions in early abortion ban legislation in six states in the southern US	2
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programming adaptations in response to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Facilitators and barriers to status disclosure and partner testing of women living with HIV in Indonesia: a mixed methods study	2
Government responses to COVID-19 and impact on GBV services and programmes: comparative analysis of the situation in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria	2
Husbands’ concerns and experiences with the progesterone vaginal ring in three sub-Saharan African countries: a mixed methods study	2
Integrating human rights into sexual and reproductive health research: moving beyond the rhetoric, what will it take to get us there?	2
Contraceptive method switching and discontinuation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar: findings from a longitudinal cohort study	2
“To give life is a journey through the unknown”: an ethnographic account of childbirth experiences and practices in Southern Benin	2
Running an obstacle-course: a qualitative study of women’s experiences with abortion-seeking in Tamil Nadu, India	2
Queer and feminist reflections on sextech	2
Engaging communities: the key to leaving no one behind in the era of UHC	2
Women’s perspectives on disrespect and abuse experiences during childbirth in a teaching hospital in Southwest Ethiopia: a qualitative study	2
An in-depth analysis of the sexuality needs of Barcelona’s youth: a holistic view using mixed method	2
Reproductive power matters: aligning actions with values in global family planning	2
Ask me, listen to me, treat me well and I shall tell: a qualitative study of Swedish youths’ experiences of systematic assessment of sexual health and risk-taking (SEXIT)	2
Restrictive points of entry into abortion care in Ireland: a qualitative study of expectations and experiences with the service	2
Promising practices for the design and implementation of sexuality education programmes for youth in India: a scoping review	2
Expanding access to early medical abortion services in Ghana with telemedicine: findings from a pilot evaluation	2
“I would love for there not to be so many hoops … ”: recommendations to improve abortion service access and experiences made by Indigenous women and 2SLGTBQIA+ people in Canada	2
Key normative, legal, and policy considerations for supporting pregnant and postpartum adolescents in high HIV-burden settings: a critical analysis	2
Can a quality improvement intervention improve person-centred maternity care in Kenya?	2
Experiences of intersex individuals in Bangladesh: some reflections	2
Women’s and health professionals’ perceptions, beliefs and barriers to cervical cancer screening uptake in Southern Ethiopia: a qualitative study	2
Menopausal symptoms among middle-aged women and care providers’ readiness to deliver menopausal services: an observational study in Kavrepalanchok, Nepal	2
Perceptions of quality of care during birth at private Chiranjeevi facilities in Gujarat: lessons for Universal Health Coverage	2
Regulatory authorities are limiting telemedicine’s potential to deliver legal abortion care to everyone in Colombia	2
Confidential review of maternal deaths in a South Indian state: current status and the way forward	2
“I suppose we’ve all been on a bit of a journey”: a qualitative study on providers’ lived experiences with liberalised abortion care in the Republic of Ireland	2
Values and preferences of contraceptive methods: a mixed-methods study among sex workers from diverse settings	2
Discussing reproductive goals with healthcare providers among women living with HIV in Canada: the role of provider gender and patient comfort	2
Disciplining sexual and reproductive behaviour of tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh: a mixed method study exploring divergent messages	2
Definitions, perspectives, and reasons for conscientious objection among healthcare workers, facility managers, and staff in South Africa: a qualitative study	2
Mobile learning to support health workers in pharmacies in expanding access to over-the-counter contraceptives: The World Health Organization Academy Learning Programme	2
A descriptive analysis of medical abortion commodity availability and pricing at retail outlets in 44 countries across four regions globally	2
Understanding discrimination against LGBTQIA+ patients in Indian hospitals using a human rights perspective: an exploratory qualitative study	2
Integration of female genital schistosomiasis into HIV/sexual and reproductive health and rights and neglected tropical diseases programmes and services: a scoping review	2
Supporting young women in Francophone West and Central Africa with their reproductive health decisions: what can we learn from the Lydia Conseil Call Centre?	2
Understanding factors associated with continuation of intrauterine device use in Gujarat and Rajasthan, India: a cross-sectional household study	2
Supreme Court of India judgement on abortion as a fundamental right: breaking new ground	2
Decriminalisation and the end of AIDS: keep the promise, follow the science, and fulfill human rights	2
COVID-19 threatens the progress of humanised childbirth: a qualitative study of giving birth during the pandemic in Brazil	2