OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Public Health is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Science, society, and policy in the face of uncertainty: reflections on the debate around face coverings for the public during COVID-19	45
COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions	34
Relational, ethically sound co-production in mental health care research: epistemic injustice and the need for an ethics of care	31
Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men	30
Concepts, disciplines and politics: on ‘structural violence’ and the ‘social determinants of health’	27
Rethinking disease preparedness: incertitude and the politics of knowledge	24
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response	24
On epidemiology as racial-capitalist (re)colonization and epistemic violence	22
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	22
Public health morality, sex, and COVID-19: sexual minority men’s HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decision-making during Ontario’s first COVID-19 lockdown	20
Working ‘upstream’ to reduce social inequalities in health: a qualitative study of how partners in an applied health research collaboration interpret the metaphor	19
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics	16
‘Complexity’ as a rhetorical smokescreen for UK public health inaction on diet	15
Resources, relationships, and systems thinking should inform the way community health promotion is funded	15
Premature evaluation? Some cautionary thoughts on global pandemics and scholarly publishing	15
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research	14
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	14
Futuring a world without disease: visualising the elimination of hepatitis C	12
Building collective control and improving health through a place-based community empowerment initiative: qualitative evidence from communities seeking agency over their built environment	12
COVID-19 and techno-solutionism: responsibilization without contextualization?	11
Public health activism in changing times: re-locating collective agency	11
‘I’m not an activist!’: digital self-advocacy in online patient communities	10
Policing the pandemic: estimating spatial and racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates	10
What is critical about critical public health? Focus on health inequalities	9
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	9

Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	9
Advocating for diamorphine: Cosmopolitical care and collective action in the ruins of the ‘old British system’	9
The publics of public health: learning from COVID-19	9
Retraction of scientific papers: the case of vaccine research	9
‘I don’t think there’s anything I can do which can keep me healthy’: how the UK immigration and asylum system shapes the health & wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland	8
‘Grenfell changes everything?’ Activism beyond hope and despair	8
#notokay: Challenging sexual violence through digital health activism	8
Decolonising the ‘safe space’ as an African innovation: the Nhanga as quiet activism to improve women’s health and wellbeing	8
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	7
Taking the National(ism) out of the National Health Service: re-locating agency to amongst ourselves	7
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	7
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries	7
Personalised medicine in the Danish welfare state: political visions for the public good	7
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	7
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	6
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding	6
Improving the health and social wellbeing of young people: exploring the potential of and for collective agency	6
The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others	6
Epistemic conflicts and Achilles’ heels: constraints of a university and public sector partnership to research obesity in Australia	6
From public issues to personal troubles: individualising social inequalities in health within local public health partnerships	6
Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	6
Forging compromiso after the storm: activism as ethics of care among health care workers in Puerto Rico	6
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust: pandemic technologies, inequalities, and public health in Ecuador and Argentina	6
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	6