OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality 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
Sexual orientation labelling: relational processes of trans identity development	39
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency	29
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	27
Understanding social capital among young black gay and bisexual men living with HIV: a qualitative exploration	18
Abortion in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic	15
‘Change creates change’ – older female sex workers’ experiences through the early COVID-19 pandemic	14
Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey	14
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	13
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	11
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	11
‘I did not get this disease on the street; it was brought home as a gift’: Gender, violence and HIV vulnerability among Cuban women	11
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	11
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	10
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	9
Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia	9
One person, many changes: a socioecological qualitative analysis of the experiences of transfeminine individuals undergoing feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy	9
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	9
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	9
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: an exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women	9
“These attitudes are a pressure”: women with disabilities’ perceptions of how stigma shapes their sexual health choices	9
“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal	9
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	9
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people: imagined possibilities	8
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	8
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	8

Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore	8
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	8
“The sky is the limit; I am going there”: experiences of hope among young women receiving a conditional cash transfer in rural South Africa	7
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	7
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion	7
“Agape love is justice”: Black clergies’ public and theological support of Black gay men	7
A new sexual wellbeing paradigm grounded in capability approach concepts of human flourishing and social justice	7
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B	7
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	7
‘The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi	7
Relating ‘to her Human Side’: a Grounded Theory analysis of cosmetologists’ and aestheticians’ relationships with clients in Black American beauty salons to inform sexual health interventions	7
Interpersonal violence victimisation, HIV-related behaviours and STIs among adult, urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Guatemala	6
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	6
Multilevel experiences of carceral violence in Los Angeles, California: first-hand accounts from a racially diverse sample of transgender women	6
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	6
Girls’ experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom	6
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	6
‘No test, no disease’: Multilevel barriers to HIV testing among young men who have sex with men and transgender women in three semi-urban areas in Thailand	6
‘You are looked upon as a luxury tool’: Young Tanzanian women’s perception of community norms supporting partner violence during transactional sex ( kudanga )	6
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	6
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	6
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	6
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	6
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	6
Balancing risk, intimacy and (non)compliance: a qualitative study of sex across household during COVID-19 social restrictions	6
‘That just sounds bizarre’: factors affecting heterosexual college students’ perceptions of new sperm-targeting contraceptives	6
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	6
Young men who have sex with men and digital technologies for HIV prevention and care: qualitative findings from the conectad@s study	6
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	5
‘I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider’: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system	5
Gender role beliefs and adolescent pregnancy in Colombia: findings from the 2015 DHS survey	5
‘We need a culture change’: military sexual trauma through the lens of rape culture	5
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	5
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	5
The end point of it is abstinence: a qualitative analysis of underlying factors influencing Christian leaders’ adoption and implementation of sex and sexuality education in Bolgatanga, Ghana	5
Between personal and social matters: identifying public perceptions of childfree decisions in Indonesia	5
Exploring the role of motherhood in healthcare engagement for women living with HIV in the USA	5
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	5
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection	5
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South	5
Understanding young Black women’s socialisation and perceptions of sexual and reproductive health	5
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	5
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	5
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	5
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	5
‘The abortion gave me my life back’: the long-term impact of access to self-managed medication abortion through telemedicine on women’s lives in legally restricted countries	5
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	5
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	5
A decade of PrEP: the evolution of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis content and sentiments in South African print news media, 2012–2021	5
“You feel like you’re fairly disadvantaged with an advert over your head saying ‘in final years of reproduction’”: social egg freezing, dating and the (unequal) politics of reproductive ageing	5

Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature	4
South African male university students’ perspectives on gender norms concerning alcohol and related harmful behaviours towards female drinkers	4
Regimes of truth regarding ‘sexual justice’ in academic literature from 2012 to 2022: a scoping review	4
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	4
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	4
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	4
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners	4
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	4
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	4
‘Just be strong and keep going’: the influence of Superwoman Schema on Black women’s perceived expectations of coping with sexual pain	4
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	4
Indigenous men’s pathways to ‘living the right kind of life and walking the right path’ post incarceration in Canada: understanding the impacts of systemic oppression, and guidance for healing and (w)	4
Patient-provider power relations in counselling on long-acting reversible contraception: a discursive study of provider perspectives	4
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	4
Framing HIV and AIDS: how leaders of black religious institutions in New York City interpret and address sex and sexuality in their HIV interventions	4
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	4
Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction: experiences of Pacific Christian adults in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	4
‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction	4
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	3
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	3
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	3
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships	3
Attitudes towards infertility: perspectives from the African diaspora in Poland	3
The medicalisation of female genital cutting in Kenya: a threefold exposition	3
Viral forgetting, or how to have ignorance in a syndemic	3
‘Eventually I wanted something more’: sexual self-reflections of South African women engaged in transactional sexual relationships with blessers	3
South African university women's perspectives on intimate partner violence: a qualitative study of reactions to a tailored vignette	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
Sexting among British adults: a qualitative analysis of sexting as emotion work governed by ‘feeling rules’	3
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	3
Prostate cancer-related sexual dysfunction – the significance of social relations in men’s reconstructions of masculinity	3
Negotiating belonging, risk and agency: discourses of sexuality among young people with migration experience in Southern Sweden	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	3
‘Hoping for a life that isn’t just surviving:’ a qualitative study on sexual minority college students’ experiences with identity formation and coming out at a religious institution in the USA	3
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina	3
Facilitating an encounter with a new sexuality discourse: the role of civic communicators in building sexual health literacy among newly arrived migrants	3
Views and experiences of young women from a migrant or refugee background regarding the contraceptive implant in Australia	3
Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa	3
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	3
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	3
Is sex lost in translation? Linguistic and conceptual issues in the translation of sexual and reproductive health surveys	3
‘My safety depends on everyone else feeling safe and good’: emotion work among transgender and gender diverse Texans	3
Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework	3
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	3
The role of activists’ sexual orientation and gender identity in their participation in LGBT movements: a case study from Yunnan, China	3
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	3
‘If we take the engine out, how will the car go?’: beliefs, understanding and access to vasectomy services in Timor-Leste	3
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal	3
The invisibility of Black and Latina women in sexual health care: shifting from biological individualism to intersectionality	3
Using the behaviour change wheel to examine facilitators and barriers to assertive contraception-use conversations for Indonesian women	3