OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Womens Studies International Forum 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	43
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	35
Editorial Board	34
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	33
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	32
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	32
Women, religion and the war	24
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	23
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	20
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	19
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	19
Editorial Board	18
How gender shapes the experience of running for office: A comparative study of women and men candidates from Bolivia's local and national elections (2020−2021)	18
Editorial Board	16
Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy	16
Editorial Board	15
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	15
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	14
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	14
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	14
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?	13
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	13
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	12
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	11
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	11

Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	11
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh	10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	10
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	10
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	10
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	9
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	9
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	9
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	8
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	8
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	8
Editorial Board	8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	8
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden	7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	7
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	7
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	7
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women	7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	7
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada	6
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	6
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	6
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	6
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	6
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	6
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	6
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	6
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)	6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	6
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	5
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	5
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	5
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	5
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	5
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	5
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	5
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	5
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	5
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education	5
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	5
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	5
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	5
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	5
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	5
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	5
Editorial Board	5

The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	4
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	4
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	4
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	4
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	4
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	4
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	4
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work	4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	4
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	4
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	4
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	4
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	4
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	4
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	4
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	4
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	4
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	4
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	4
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	4
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	4
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	4
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills	3
Editorial Board	3
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	3
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors	3
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom	3
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry	3
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia	3
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers	3
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka	3
Editorial Board	3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	3
“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”	3
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal	3
Editorial Board	3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses	3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong	3
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	3
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	3
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania	3
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia	3
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right	3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education	3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression	3
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis	3
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty	3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits	3
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles	3
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	3
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey	3
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	3
Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi	3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society	3
War, women and forced displacement	3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan	3