OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sexualities 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
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India	30
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and the “Long-Winded Lady”	28
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence	25
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China	20
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity	18
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches	17
“It’s easier to think outside the box when you are already outside the box”: A study of transgender and non-binary people’s sexual well-being	17
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human	15
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema	13
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age	12
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method	11
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan	11
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content	11
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride	11
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict	10
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag	10
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain	10
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study	10
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad	10
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices	9
Book review: Gender, sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A multidisciplinary approach DaltonDrewSmithAngela, (eds), Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cham: Palgrave, (2023);	9
Book Review: Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media	9
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism	9
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention	9
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas, Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century	8

Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm	8
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project	8
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan	8
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana	7
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions	7
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan	7
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde	7
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness	7
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden	7
Midwifery and sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding? GeuensSamPolona MivšekAnaGianottenWoet L. Midwifery & Sexuality. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023, pp., ISBN: 978-3-031-1843	6
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling	6
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating	6
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series	6
Cum together: Sexual interaction, sexual sharing, and sex education in Suck magazine, 1969-1974	6
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life	6
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents	5
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling	5
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations	5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China	5
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home	5
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality	5
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism	5
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance	4
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies	4
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan	4
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu	4
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals	4
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex	4
Book Review: Sexuality: From Intimacy to Politics	4
Book Review: Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System	4
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex	4
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism	4
The persistence and endurance of blood family	4
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying	4
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey	3
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”	3
Book Review: The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle	3
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy	3
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany	3
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography	3
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia	3
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics	3
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil	3
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness	3
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba	3
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice	3
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments	3
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries	3
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis	3

We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda	3
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts	3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture	3
Book Review: Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s Gay generation in Hong Kong KongTravis SK, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainlan	3
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education	3
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach	3
Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean	3
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires	3
“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex”: Sex researchers talking back to the erotophobic academy using the researcher’s erotic subjectivitiesGuest editorial themed section ‘the researcher’s e	3
Changing norms of older men’s sexuality in the sexological discourse during Czechoslovak socialism: Dementia as an interpretative lens to make sense of sexual expressions in later life	3
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany	3
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital	3
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America	3
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond	3
When Illness Is a Crime: Book Review of Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness	3
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick	3