OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Media portrayals of psychotropic agents in AD/HD treatment: A social constructionist approach	17
Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms	14
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy	14
How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence	13
Maintaining a medical institution in a context of materiality change: Lessons from a Canadian university hospital	12
In search of a habitable world: The long journey of women who survived breast cancer	11
Loss, shame and secrecy in women’s experiences of a vulval skin condition: A qualitative study	10
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation	10
A narrative exploration of identity in adults with de novo scoliosis	10
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments	9
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media	8
“Lifestyle, finitude, or inequality?”: Illness explanation in Kathlyn Conway’s and Arthur Frank’s cancer memoirs	8
Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability	7
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis	7
Legitimacy and professional boundaries: An institutional analysis of Chinese Medicine in Mainland China and Hong Kong	6
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health: A systematic mapping review	6
A bad migrant: An autoethnographic case study of racism in Australian HIV care	6
Narratives of reconstruction: Looking beyond biographical disruption through three Indian breast cancer memoirs	6
Agency, sex and drug education: Examining the response-ability of education responses to consumption, sex and harm	6
Becoming frail: A more than human exploration	5
“That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand “obesity,” health, and physical activity	5
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer	5
‘Alright my lovely’: The use of terms of endearment as a mitigation device in the care of people living with dementia in the acute hospital environment	5
Producing non-communicable diseases(NCD’s) as health ‘problems’ in Botswana: A critical analysis of the NCD strategy (2018–2023)	5
And they slept happily ever after: Online interpretive repertoires on the use of benzodiazepines and z-drugs	5

Inegalitarian effects on access to vaccines of delegating Covid-19 vaccination to a private online appointment platform: The French case	5
The contribution of a complex systems-based approach to progressive social resilience	5
A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations	4
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process	4
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening	4
Navigating uncertainty in low back pain care through an ethic of openness: Learnings from a post-critical analysis	4
‘To improve quality of life’: Diverging enactments of a value in nephrology clinical practices	4
Transgender debates and healthcare: A critical realist account	4
‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada	4
“The Depressed” and “People with Anxiety” therapists’ discursive representations of patients with depression and anxiety in Danish Psychiatry	4
The IPEDs assemblage: Tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society	4
The mouth and oral health in the field of dementia	4
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings	4
Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada	3
Telemedicine and patient-centered care: The perspective of primary-care physicians	3
‘Hearts’ and ‘minds’: Illustrating identity tensions of people living and working through marketising policy change of allied health disability services in Australia	3
The unravelling of person-centred care: The value and necessity of analysing power relations in contraceptive services	3
Sabotage, feeding and collusion after bariatric surgery. And the winner is . . .? A psychodynamic and systemic perspective on sabotage and feeding after bariatric surgery by means of a case series ana	3
Sensing pain: Embodied knowledge in endometriosis	3
‘Through a kaleidoscope’: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of Belgian policy regarding patients with a migration background and depression in general practices	3
Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die?	3
Sedated beauty: The invisible knife in online narratives about cosmetic breast augmentation	3
Access to intervene. An ethnographic study of public health practices targeting health inequalities	3
Medical professionals’ agency and pharmaceuticalization: Physician-industry relations in Russia	3
Kidney failure, status passage, and the transitional nature of living with the disease: A qualitative study in Argentina	3
Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction	3
Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity	3
Coexisting cancer regimes: Transformations of breast and lung cancer in the United Kingdom	3
Rethinking the logic of early diagnosis in cancer	3
More than meets the eye: Understanding the importance of the materialities of care at the vaccination encounter in Portugal	3