OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disability & Society 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Even if it’s flawed it’s still beautiful’: life lessons learned by adolescents with neurological conditions at summer camp	62
Burden of support: a counter narrative of service users’ experiences with community housing services	47
Announcement of doctoral theses	38
Making spaces in exclusionary places: the spatial tactics/stories of disabled people and their families in Hong Kong	34
A user-led audit of the walkability and wheelability of Quebec City’s neighborhoods by mobility assistive technology users	28
Neurodiversity and double empathy: can empathy disconnects be mitigated to support autistic belonging?	26
Gender, feminism and the project of critical disability studies (CDS)	25
Just a show: the home-delivery education policy for children with disabilities in China	21
‘I’m a cracked vase’: identity narratives of disabled pre-service teachers	21
The ‘shadow pandemic’ in online learning: perspectives of visually impaired students from Ghana and Egypt	20
Intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Transnational perspectives on people, policy, and practice	20
Examining the vulnerability of persons with disabilities in Myanmar pre and post-COVID-19 and military coup	19
A participatory research to design a survey providing a portrait of the life of people with visual impairments	19
“I’m worthy of having experiences just like everybody else”: exploring sexual well-being among young disabled people	18
Announcement of doctoral theses	17
Announcement of doctoral theses	17
Announcement of doctoral theses	17
Announcement of doctoral theses	16
Autism should be considered in the assessment and delivery of mental health services for children and young people	16
COVID-19 in Bangladesh: an especially difficult time for an invisible population	16
Autonomous care decisions: what can Article 12 of the CRPD offer to older disabled adults and their supporters?	15
The diversity model in Spain: contributions and challenges for its implementation: ‘the way we want to live’	15
Disabling discourses: contemporary cinematic representations of acquired physical disability	15
When will we decolonise the positions disabled people should hold?	14
Disability, diversity and inclusive education in Haiti: learning, exclusion and educational relationships in the context of crises	14

Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability	14
Manifestations of spatial exclusion and inclusion of people with disabilities in Africa	13
Do disabled people also vote? Electoral frameworks and voting participation in Nigeria’s 2019 elections	13
Some things never seem to change: further towards an affirmation model	13
Announcement of doctoral theses	12
Debunking Choice and Control in Active Support: A Qualitative Analysis of Encounters in Training Videos between Staff and People with Intellectual Disability	11
Investigating short video consumption practices by individuals with visual impairments in China: questions of how to ‘see’	11
Enhancing sign language recognition and accessibility for the deaf community in China	11
Women’s experiences of special observations on locked wards	11
Paternalism to empowerment: all in the eye of the beholder?	10
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for persons with disabilities in school settings: A call for research	10
National disability insurance scheme: is it creating an ordinary life for adults with intellectual disability?	10
Poverty alleviation for people with disabilities in China: policy, practice, exclusionary effects, and ways forward	10
Raising the voices of AuDHD women and girls: exploring the co-occurring conditions of autism and ADHD	10
This changes everything: a critical reflection on the impact of internalized ableist constructs on becoming a disabled mother	10
Experiences within pharmacies: reflections of persons with visual impairment in South Africa	9
Announcement of Doctoral Theses	9
A*tistic females’ network	9
‘We have no power over perceptions’: the lived experiences of women with disabilities in a rural South African community	9
Bridging the gap: special educators’ perceptions of their professional roles in supporting inclusive education in Kazakhstan	9
‘Five rungs down’: encounters between disabled parents and the medical institution	8
Announcement of doctoral theses	8
Thinking with ‘the Utopian’ in the de-institutionalisation debate	8
Conceptualising responsibility and hostility within work-integrated learning placements for students with disabilities	8
Shifting power to people with disability in co-designed research	8
Negotiating agency: disability activism in Uganda between local contexts and global influences	8
Claiming chaos narrative, emerging from silence	8
The pandemic paradox: a mixed methods participatory approach to understanding autistic adults’ experiences during COVID-19	8
Perceptions of disabilities among Native Americans within the state of Utah	8
Ataxia and me – living within a neurological hierarchy	8
Critical networks: Embedding programmes for individuals with intellectual impairments in university contexts in Chile, Ireland and Australia	8
Interdependencies in peer work with people with disability	8
Disabled people’s organisation: a new frontier for user-led advocacy	8
China’s prevention policy for people with disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic	7
Announcement of doctoral theses	7
A test of faith? Attitudes of ultraorthodox Jewish parents of children with down syndrome toward prenatal testing	7
Caring for children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: images and metaphors expressed by Dutch parents	7
Conform or be ostracised: restricted and repetitive behaviours in non-autistic persons	7
Merging critical disability theory with Post-Colonial hybridity theory: a widened lens and implications	7
Working with Global Aphasia: theory and Practice	7
The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion: experiences of a disabled postgraduate in perpetual lockdown	7
What works in rapid response public health projects?	7
On disability, humour and rabbit holes: a personal reflection	7
Reconceptualising ‘reasonable adjustments’ for the successful employment of autistic women	7
De Gruyter handbook of disability and management	7
To heaven and back: don’t die… live on!	7
Towards interdependence: reciprocal relationships between students living with disability and their significant others	7
Career development for students with disabilities in an open distance learning institution: A narrative inquiry	6
Experiences of higher education for students with chronic illnesses	6
Organisational neurotypicalness: fighting unintentional ableism in working spaces	6

Critical cultural disability studies and mental health: a rhetorical perspective	6
Rising to the challenge: disability organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Lack of braille labelling and instructions on Chinese pharmaceutical packaging	6
Avoiding the deaf penalty: a review of the experiences of d/Deaf individuals in the criminal justice system	6
Photovoice for disability inclusion on campus	6
Deaf migration through an intersectionality lens	6
‘All in this together?’ A commentary on the impact of COVID-19 on disability day services in Ireland	6
Supporting chronically ill college student wellbeing through campus counterspaces	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
The impact of the transition to Personal Independence Payment on claimants with mental health problems	6
Disabled people as foster carers – closing the recruitment gap and more	6
Speaking across the autism worldview divide: a dialogue between critical autism studies and behaviour analytic scholars	6
Enablers and inhibitors of the co-production of disability-inclusive employment: perspectives from people with visual impairment	6
Still outsiders: The inclusion of disabled children and young people in physical education in England	6
The paradox of ‘positive energy’ ( zheng nengliang ): the complex affective realities of people with hearing impairments in china’s service industry	6
Disability and employment in China: a Guangzhou case study	6
Education, equity and inclusion: teaching and learning for a sustainable North	6
‘They would be bullied in ordinary schools’ – exploring public discourses on inclusionary schooling	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Disability and the problem of lazy intersectionality	5
Long COVID and chronic pain: overlapping racial inequalities	5
Activating disability care: the formation of collective disability care networks in China’s COVID-19 outbreak	5
‘… they had interpreted “disability” as referring to a patently visible disability’: experience of a patient group with NICE	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
‘Because it’s who I am’: self-determination of LGBTQ adults with intellectual disability	5
Child welfare system inequities experienced by disabled parents: towards a conceptual framework	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Disability-inclusive development: a postcolonial analysis in Lao PDR	5
‘There’s nothing I can do to stop it’: homelessness among autistic people in a British city	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Against the rules – disrupting and reassessing discursive practices of playfulness	5
Film, comedy and disability: understanding humour and genre in cinematic constructions of impairment and disability	4
Transition from School to Adult Life: Scoping Review of Perspectives of Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Families	4
The unheard voices of academia: overcoming systemic barriers and fostering inclusive spaces for knowledge exchange	4
‘Sick with stress’: perspectives on airport travel from persons living with dementia and their travel companions	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
Between safety and isolation: the governmental-ministerial approach to care homes in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Negotiating work and care in Chinese families of children with autism: reframing mothers’ narratives through a social-relational lens	4
Barrier-free film screening in China: awareness, practice and suggestions	4
Book review	4
Disability practice: safeguarding quality service delivery,	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
Ableism versus free speech in Australia: challenging online hate speech toward people with Down syndrome	4
Social support and living during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced by persons with disabilities: a qualitative study in Munich	4
‘That’s my journey’: what motivated me to conduct disability research?	4
Identity, mental health, and ableism in Australian schools: findings from a multi-stakeholder survey	4
Seeking redress for harm in institutional care during the COVID-19 pandemic: immunity from civil liability as barrier	4
From the equal opportunity commission case files: experiences among persons with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago	4
Unseen and unheard: how the Future Generations Act is not addressing the needs of the Welsh deaf community	4
‘Then you realise you can actually do it’: young disabled people negotiating challenges during times of transitioning into adulthood	4
Schooling children with disabilities during COVID-19: Perspectives of teachers and caregivers in Ethiopia	4
Disability stories: personal perspectives of people with disabilities on navigating the U.S. health system	4
Between gaining acceptance and avoiding harm: navigating stigma and its consequences among autistic individuals	3
Accessibility for parents with disability: is it reality or fantasy?	3
Conceptions of accessibility among persons with spinal cord injury in Finland	3
Experiences of Australian adults with disabilities living with government supports in the home during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Experiences of food access among disabled adults in Toronto, Canada	3
Critical discourse analysis of federal and provincial government grants for post-secondary students with disabilities in Alberta and Ontario	3
Making me with others-gendered meanings of youth and youthfulness among young female disabled assistance users	3
I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am	3
Police–disabled citizen interactions: testing the role of disability awareness training and experience on officer confidence	3
The transformative dilemma of disabled students’ participation in the NCEE: moving toward inclusion or integration?	3
The taboo of sexuality and the desire for parenthood of people with intellectual disabilities living in care facilities in France	3
Researching autism, becoming disabled: discovering brilliant imperfection	3
Visually impaired women on the move: the intersection of gender and disability in China	3
Reviewing the limitations of publicly funded adult developmental services in Ontario: exposing ableist assumptions within the administrative process	3
Misfitting and social practice theory: incorporating disability into the performance and (re)enactment of social practices	3
End-of-life care for adults with long-standing physical disability from the perspectives of bereaved family members: a qualitative exploratory study	3
Labor market participation for employees with disabilities: a cross-organizational review in India	3
Access to and utilisation of sexual and reproductive healthcare for women and girls with cerebral palsy: a scoping review	3
Memories of resistance. The people with physical disability movement in the late francoism and the Spanish democratic transition	3
Prospects for employment of persons with disabilities in the post-covid-19 era in developing countries	3
Disability, happiness and the welfare state (Finland and the Nordic model)	3
Inclusive education for students with disabilities in the global COVID-19 outbreak emergency: some facts and thoughts from China	3
Perceptions of university students with disabilities in Spain: ideas and beliefs about attitudes towards their inclusion	3
Provision of mental health services for people with disabilities in the Philippines amid coronavirus outbreak	3
Being a disabled woman in a global pandemic: a focus group study in the United States along with policy recommendations	3
How is disability addressed in a job interview?	3