OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health is 1. 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
Media portrayals of psychotropic agents in AD/HD treatment: A social constructionist approach	13
How workplaces produce or reduce disability along the career paths of young people with cystic fibrosis	13
Patient narratives of hope in stem cell technologies: Trust in biomedicine and the body’s natural ability to heal itself	13
“That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand “obesity,” health, and physical activity	12
Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods: Re-analysis of qualitative data from a hospital-based case study of self-harm management and prevention practices	11
‘To improve quality of life’: Diverging enactments of a value in nephrology clinical practices	11
Talking about chronic pain: Misalignment in discussions of the body, mind and social aspects in pain clinic consultations	10
‘Don’t freak out if you get a letter saying cancer patient pathways!’: Communication work between different demands in cancer care	10
The discursive construction of HIV stigma in Irish print media	10
Luckily—I am not the worrying kind: Experiences of patients in the Danish cancer patient pathway for non-specific symptoms and signs of cancer	10
Reflections of a white healthcare professional researching ethnicized and racialized minorities: Autoethnographically explored emotions revealing implicit advantages and consequences	10
‘Is it in your basic personality?’ Negotiations about traits and context in diagnostic interviews for personality disorders	8
The contribution of a complex systems-based approach to progressive social resilience	8
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life	8
The embodied experience of genetic inheritance in hereditary thrombophilia	7
The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research	7
Inegalitarian effects on access to vaccines of delegating Covid-19 vaccination to a private online appointment platform: The French case	7
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer	7
Good care and adverse effects: Exploring the use of social alarms in care for older people in Sweden	6
Conceptualising wellbeing among health-care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Beyond the neoliberal label: A historical perspective on sexual actors and responsibility in HIV prevention in England (1986–2023)	6
Involuntary psychiatric treatment and the erosion of consent: A critical discourse analysis of mental health legislation in British Columbia, Canada	6
A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations	5
Intercorporeal collaboration: Staging, parsing, and embodied directives in dementia care	5
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality	5

Power, position and social relations: Is the espoused absence of hierarchy in Open Dialogue naïve?	5
Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility	5
Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia	5
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	4
Healthcare seeking for people diagnosed with severe mental illness: Sensations, symptoms and diagnostic work	4
A narrative exploration of identity in adults with de novo scoliosis	4
The power struggle: exploring the reality of clinical reasoning	4
The mouth and oral health in the field of dementia	4
Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms	4
Book Review: Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction	4
Maintaining a medical institution in a context of materiality change: Lessons from a Canadian university hospital	4
How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence	4
The IPEDs assemblage: Tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society	3
A psychosocial exploration of resistances to service user involvement in United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) mental health services	3
From domestication to imperial patronage: Deconstructing the biomedicalisation of occupational therapy	3
In search of a habitable world: The long journey of women who survived breast cancer	3
Institutional inconsistencies and professionals’ hidden institutional work in Russian pandemic-affected healthcare: The material dimension	3
Ill persons and capable workers: Constructing work ability in return-to-work negotiations after sickness absence	3
From embodiment to evidence: The harmful intersection of poor regulation of medical implants and obstructed narratives in embodied experiences of failed metal-on-metal hips	3
Medication literacy and its social contextuality	3
Secondary emotional labor: How female nurses respond to the contradictions of caring	3
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	3
Is Covid-19 “vaccine uptake” in postsecondary education a “problem”? A critical policy inquiry	3
A syndemics approach to exercise is medicine	3
Mind-Stuff and Withdrawal of the Senses: Toward an Interpretation of Pratyahara in Contemporary Postural Yoga	3
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy	3
“Missing minorities” in blood donation: Rethinking blood procurement in Europe as a citizenship regime	2
‘Social media comes with good and bad sides, doesn’t it?’ A balancing act of the benefits and risks of social media use by young adults with long-term conditions	2
Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVST): The decision-making process among Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish parents	2
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination	2
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The practice of information appraisal: An ethnographic study of a health information intervention	2
Corona hotels in Israel: Care and abandonment under the auspices of digital medicine	2
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation	2
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery: A qualitative interview study with patients and neurosurgeons	2
‘They think we’re just in God’s waiting room’: A discursive study on identity aloneness in stroke survivors	2
Narrative and obesity: Managing weight stigma associated with bariatric surgery	2
‘Madness’ after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – challenging dominant understandings of distress	2
Constructing therapeutic support and negotiating competing agendas: A discourse analysis of vocational advice provided to individuals who are absent from work due to ill-health	2
‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada	2
The normativist-naturalist puzzle: Functions and assumptions of health assessment tools	2
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	2
The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach	2
Transgender debates and healthcare: A critical realist account	2
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	2
‘It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments’: Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown	2
The unexpected other: Challenges and strategies after acquired impairment	2
The making and unmaking of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: On the mismatch between illness and disease. Results from an Italian study	2
Bodies of concern? A qualitative exploration of eating, moving and embodiment in young mothers	2
Shared care and gender identity support in Primary Care: The perspectives and experiences of parents/carers of young trans people	1

‘Engaging on a slightly more human level’: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic	1
“Lifestyle, finitude, or inequality?”: Illness explanation in Kathlyn Conway’s and Arthur Frank’s cancer memoirs	1
The ethics of facing the Other in suicide	1
CORRIGENDUM to “Vol 26, Issue 1”	1
Resident training in psychopathology and uncertainty in a clinical situation	1
Logic modelling as hermeneutic praxis: Bringing knowledge systems into view during comprehensive primary health care planning for homelessness in Australia	1
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments	1
Un-tracking menopause: How not using self-tracking technologies mediates women’s self-experiences in menopause	1
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia’s COVID-19 public updates	1
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media	1
Loss, shame and secrecy in women’s experiences of a vulval skin condition: A qualitative study	1
Pediatric oncology caregiving as narrative repair: Restor(y)ing disrupted family biographies and damaged moral identities	1
Navigating uncertainty in low back pain care through an ethic of openness: Learnings from a post-critical analysis	1
Progressing the understanding of chronic illness and its treatment: A post-human, ethological understanding of haemodialysis	1
Suicide justice: Adopting Indigenous feminist methods in settler suicidology	1
Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die?	1
Quantitative Textual Analysis as a means to explore corporate interests in food safety	1
Caring remotely through ‘fitting’: Video consultation use in Danish general practice	1
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis	1
Sedated beauty: The invisible knife in online narratives about cosmetic breast augmentation	1
Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity	1
Bright-siding stigma: Older adults’ experiences at a higher weight in Atlantic Canada	1
Place, health and dis/advantage: A sociomaterial analysis	1
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy	1
Exempting the state and responsibilizing individuals during pandemic governance: Analyzing the health minister’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	1
Biographical disruption, redefinition, and recovery: Illness identities of women with depression and diabetes	1