OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sociology of Health & Illness is 18. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond deficit: ‘strengths‐based approaches’ in Indigenous health research	59
Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory	37
Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality approach	33
Understanding and managing uncertainty in health care: revisiting and advancing sociological contributions	32
Social networks and health in later life: a state of the literature	29
Can digital data diagnose mental health problems? A sociological exploration of ‘digital phenotyping’	29
Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care	28
Masculinities, emotions and men’s suicide	25
“No one associates alcohol with being in good health”: Health and wellbeing as imperatives to manage alcohol use for young people	25
Populism and health policy: three international case studies of right‐wing populist policy frames	24
Media framing of fighting COVID‐19 in China	22
Exclusion and hospitality: the subtle dynamics of stigma in healthcare access for people emerging from alcohol and other drug treatment	22
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland	19
Coronavirus (COVID‐19), pandemic psychology and the fractured society: a sociological case for critique, foresight and action	19
Feeding inequality: food insecurity, social status and college student health	19
Learning to manage uncertainty: supervision, trust and autonomy in residency training	18
Race/ethnicity, gender and the SES gradient in BMI: The diminishing returns of SES for racial/ethnic minorities	18
Patient data work: filtering and sensing patient‐reported outcomes	18