OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Public Health is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors associated with micronutrient intake of low-income overweight or obese young mothers	40
What you should know about RACISM-20 in the U.S.: a fact sheet in the time of COVID-19	38
Self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students: a cross-sectional case study	29
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city	27
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA	26
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	26
Recovering political knowledge in public health: learning from sexual and reproductive health work	25
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health	21
Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	20
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia	15
Attitudes of medical students towards LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review	12
Assessing the associations of inflammatory bowel disease and hepatitis B virus infections with two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization	12
The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life	12
Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia	12
The wages of peer recovery workers: underpaid, undervalued, and unjust	11
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media	11
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	10
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	10
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C	10
Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia	10
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control	9
“Anticipate the need”: a narrative analysis of service providers’ experiences working with sexual and gender minority youth in British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Poisonously single-minded: public health implications of the pharmaceuticalization of leishmaniasis in Colombia	8
Effects of family socioeconomic status on college students’ physical activity: chain-mediated effects of parental exercise habits and family sports climate	8
Critical posthuman ethnography: grappling with human-more-than-human interconnection for critical public health	7

Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Correction	7
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients	7
What’s the problem represented to be? A critical analysis of problem representation in news media and public health communication during a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, California, USA	7
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management	7
How pharmaceutical companies misappropriate fat acceptance	7
Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health	7
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	7
Royal Society report: what would a comprehensive evaluation suggest about non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19?	7
From uncertain diseases to uncertain vaccines. Experts’ failure in the light of policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic—the case of Poland	6
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	6
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	6
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	6
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	5
Assessment of physical activity levels among undergraduate medical students at a southwestern college in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study	5
Effect of calcium supplementation in reducing adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	5
Doing (and undoing) privilege: evaluating how public policy drives health inequities	5
Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia	5
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	4
A new conceptualization of the professional practice of environmental health: an Australian qualitative study	4
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	4
“Digging in”: stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who consume cannabis	4
Frailty goes viral: a critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 national clinical guidelines in the United Kingdom	4
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%	4
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	4
Budgetary processes in medical organizations under a global budget payment system	4
‘COVID-19 vaccines are safe’: however, the issues of vaccine equity and data equity remain	4
Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information	4