OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disability & Society 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
What works in rapid response public health projects?	46
Just a show: the home-delivery education policy for children with disabilities in China	42
Announcement of doctoral theses	24
Announcement of doctoral theses	22
Disabling discourses: contemporary cinematic representations of acquired physical disability	22
Investigating short video consumption practices by individuals with visual impairments in China: questions of how to ‘see’	21
Conceptualising responsibility and hostility within work-integrated learning placements for students with disabilities	21
This changes everything: a critical reflection on the impact of internalized ableist constructs on becoming a disabled mother	20
Debunking Choice and Control in Active Support: A Qualitative Analysis of Encounters in Training Videos between Staff and People with Intellectual Disability	19
Neurodiversity and double empathy: can empathy disconnects be mitigated to support autistic belonging?	18
Volunteering and the response to COVID-19 in the UK	17
Evaluating compliance with Ghana’s Persons with Disabilities Act in public building accessibility: a case of Ho Municipality	17
Fighting for our children: a collective responsibility to deliver social and health rights to children with disability	16
Inclusion for sale: commodifying deaf labour and performing benevolent ableism in China’s service sector	15
‘There’s nothing I can do to stop it’: homelessness among autistic people in a British city	15
Smart eldercare robotics and disability: barriers, risks, and policy gaps in the Chinese context	15
Accessibility for parents with disability: is it reality or fantasy?	15
Disability on Arab screens: cripping class, religion, and gender in Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon	14
Announcement of doctoral theses	14
Challenging ableism and disablism in English football fandom: disabled supporters and repertoires of ‘everyday resistance’	13
‘… they had interpreted “disability” as referring to a patently visible disability’: experience of a patient group with NICE	13
Missed opportunities? Accessibility in ‘post-pandemic’ academia	13
Reviewing the limitations of publicly funded adult developmental services in Ontario: exposing ableist assumptions within the administrative process	13
The unheard voices of academia: overcoming systemic barriers and fostering inclusive spaces for knowledge exchange	13
Sectoral challenges and negative feelings experienced by Palestinians with disability in besieged Gaza during COVID-19 pandemic	13

Critical discourse analysis of federal and provincial government grants for post-secondary students with disabilities in Alberta and Ontario	13
I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am	13
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support	13
Changing the medical model of disability to the normalization model of disability: clarifying the past to create a new future direction	12
Police–disabled citizen interactions: testing the role of disability awareness training and experience on officer confidence	12
Invisible barriers: the educational and social exclusion of children with chronic diseases in Denmark	11
Disabled healthcare professionals’ experiences of altruism: identity, professionalism, competence, and disclosure	11
‘Gypsum on water. That schizophrenia.’ schizophrenia – a meeting of stories: a qualitative study	11
Inclusion from the experience of university students with disabilities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)	10
Testimonial injustice: exploring ‘credibility’ as a barrier to justice for people with learning disabilities/autism who report sexual violence	10
Care does not just belong at home: inclusion in doctoral supervision for a student with traumatic brain injury	10
Unheard and unseen: the inaccessibility of higher education for deaf and blind students in Iran	10
Beyond binaries: complex roles and identities in critical mental health research	10
A deaf researcher in an Indian and Norwegian context – an autoethnographic journey	10
Police interactions and the autistic community: perceptions of procedural justice	9
Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts	9
The importance of social supports in education: survey findings from students with disability and their families during COVID-19	9
A collective biography on working relationships in inclusive research teams	9
Resistance to accessibility improvements in publicly accessible buildings	9
Disability politics in Malaysia and the limitations of the Human Rights Model: challenging dominant narratives	9
Announcement of doctoral theses	9
Stamped allegories of disability: representations of the disabled body on postage stamps	9
Politics, personalisation and me: how ‘Fair and Affordable Care policies’ could impact on the lives of Disabled people	9
Announcement of doctoral theses	9
Regulating vulnerability: policy approaches for preventing violence and abuse of people with disability in Australian service provision settings	9
Dis/ableist criminology and domestic colonisation: conceptualising disabled people’s experience of hate and home-based violence	9
How can information be ‘barrier-free’? A critical reading of china’s web accessibility policies in the 21st century	8
Between risk and autonomy: producing subjects in group homes and supervised workshops for people with intellectual disabilities	8
The double jeopardy of women with albinism in Ibadan, Nigeria: breaking the unemployment barrier	8
Caught in the middle? Comparing disability payment restructuring and workfare in Denmark and Australia	8
Safety and accessibility for persons with disabilities in the Swedish transport system – prioritization and conceptual boundaries	8
Childhood adversity, resilience, and autism: a critical review of the literature	8
Being a deaf Bedouin young woman: suffering in silence	8
Stop fearing blindness! Visually impaired people reflect on the ethics of sighted prospective teachers simulating visual impairment	8
Urban informality, culture, and participation of people with mobility impairments in Tegalrejo, Indonesia	7
Enhancing inclusive instruction: student perspectives and practical approaches for advancing equity in higher education	7
Demystifying Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): charting the ESG course in Africa	7
From everyday presence to organised actions: internet use and the political engagement of disabled people in China	7
Emotional ‘journey’ of street beggars with vision impairment: a study from Ghana	7
Accessibility of public buildings in the United States: a cross-sectional survey	7
Between diagnosis and belonging: navigating emotional bureaucracies in Indian autism care	7
“I’m doing my best”: experiences of parents navigating services for their children with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Digital payment services in Poland as assistive technology and empowering tool for consumers with disabilities	7
Unearthing and addressing bias: understanding the connection between teacher dispositions and disproportionality	7
What facilitates or constrains co-creation in museums? The case of people with visual impairments	7
Insights of people with disabilities regarding barriers to equality and inclusion	7
Gathering autistic adults’ visual experiences to inform adaptations: a qualitative interview study	7
‘We are listening’ Mother-led research exploring inclusive communication between autistic young people and their families	7
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6

It broke my heart’: an investigation of ableist microaggressions towards mothers of Australian dyslexic children in primary school	6
Disability policy and UK political parties: absent, present or absent-present citizens?	6
Undoing suicidism: a trans, queer, crip approach to rethinking (assisted) suicide	6
Disability, normality and absurdity: A reflection on stuckist disability art	6
Moving forward: a call for Critical ADHD Studies	6
Promoting inclusive innovation for disabled people in four countries: who does what and why?	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Barriers to cultural participation by people with disabilities in Europe: a study across 28 countries	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
The representation of disabled women and recent disabled women-led media	6
Women’s experiences of special observations on locked wards	5
Accumulated social vulnerability and experiences of psycho-trauma among women living with albinism in Tanzania	5
Disability and employment in China: a Guangzhou case study	5
Using AI to help generate disability scholarship	5
Correction	5
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for persons with disabilities in school settings: A call for research	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Exploring romantic need as part of mental health social care practice	5
Bridging the gap: special educators’ perceptions of their professional roles in supporting inclusive education in Kazakhstan	5
Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability	5
Autism should be considered in the assessment and delivery of mental health services for children and young people	5
The ‘shadow pandemic’ in online learning: perspectives of visually impaired students from Ghana and Egypt	5
Seeking redress for harm in institutional care during the COVID-19 pandemic: immunity from civil liability as barrier	5
Raising the voices of AuDHD women and girls: exploring the co-occurring conditions of autism and ADHD	5
‘I’m a cracked vase’: identity narratives of disabled pre-service teachers	5
Rethinking how people with cognitive disability complain	5
Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability: a case from the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)	5
The pandemic paradox: a mixed methods participatory approach to understanding autistic adults’ experiences during COVID-19	5
Making me with others-gendered meanings of youth and youthfulness among young female disabled assistance users	5
Blockchain for inclusion: challenges and pathways to digital entrepreneurship among persons with disabilities in China	5
Speaking across the autism worldview divide: a dialogue between critical autism studies and behaviour analytic scholars	5
Intersectionality and creative business education: Inclusive and diverse cultures in pedagogy	4
Labor market participation for employees with disabilities: a cross-organizational review in India	4
How inclusive is higher education for female disabled staff? Stigmas & stoppers	4
Experiences of identifying pre-school children with disabilities in resource limited settings – an account from Malawi, Pakistan and Uganda	4
Barriers and facilitators of access to higher education in a weakly institutionalised context: perceptions of disabled students	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
“Rooted in ableism:” an embedded mixed methods study of disability disclosure on a university campus	4
Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and disability	4
Participatory video and diagramming with disabled people in Burkina Faso	4
Recognizing the rights of children with disabilities in Malawi	4
Announcement of doctoral theses	4
The role of stigma on the pregnancy experiences of women with disabilities in Kathmandu: a qualitative study	4
Strength, gender, and volunteering: the lived experiences of Para-powerlifters in the Republic of Ireland	4
Researching autism, becoming disabled: discovering brilliant imperfection	4
Against the rules – disrupting and reassessing discursive practices of playfulness	4
The case for employment and education support for people with serious mental health conditions in Sweden	4
Living ‘with TBI’ as complex embodiment	4
Willful brains and absent minds: a phenomenological investigation of fear, epilepsy, and willful being	4
Narratives of siblinghood: exploring perspectives of adult siblings of autistic individuals	4
Social class, disability, and institutional interactions: the case of families with disabled children in the welfare state	4
Maintenance of ableist society for wheelchair users: roles of medical model of disability and witnessed negotiation for accessibility	4
Representations of mothers having children with disability in Hindi cinema: a feminist thematic analysis	4
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities by women with disabilities in Zimbabwe’s Harare Metropolitan Province during COVID-19	4
Sane Fragility - Madness meets critical whiteness	4
From disability identity to disability activism: leadership journeys of persons with disabilities in Indonesia	4
Breaking barriers for visually impaired women in China’s workforce	4
Perceptions and experience of social media use among adults with physical disability in Nigeria: attention to social interaction	4
Election information accessibility for disabled people during Singapore’s 2025 general election	4
Challenges facing Hong Kong’s intellectually disabled people in using public services during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The ‘normal’ physical education classes: the ableism facing the inclusion of disabled students	4
Individuation processes in disabled people. An approach through mobilities in rural areas of southern Chile	4
Institutional pedagogy and the transformation of residential care for, and with, disabled citizens	4
A creative non-fiction account of autistic youth integrated physical education experiences	4
Life stabilization and resiliency for disabled people? A critical discourse analysis of the Ontario poverty reduction strategy	4
Livestreaming: exploring the obstacles and possibilities of digital usage for people with disabilities	4
Intersectional theory and disadvantage: a tool for decolonisation	4
Exploring independent living initiatives for people with intellectual disabilities: insights from the Spanish case	4