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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Patient narratives of hope in stem cell technologies: Trust in biomedicine and the body’s natural ability to heal itself	13
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
“That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand “obesity,” health, and physical activity	12
‘To improve quality of life’: Diverging enactments of a value in nephrology clinical practices	11
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
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
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
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life	8
‘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
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
The embodied experience of genetic inheritance in hereditary thrombophilia	7
The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research	7
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
Good care and adverse effects: Exploring the use of social alarms in care for older people in Sweden	6
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
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
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 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
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
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