OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘… if U equals U what does the second U mean?’: sexual minority men’s accounts of HIV undetectability and untransmittable scepticism	26
Improving menstrual equity in the USA: perspectives from trans and non-binary people assigned female at birth and health care providers	25
Balancing the sexology scales: a content analysis of Black women’s sexuality research	25
Intersex human rights, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics and the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10	24
Intersex: cultural and social perspectives	22
‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press	20
‘Somebody that looks like me’ matters: a qualitative study of black women’s preferences for receiving sexual health services in the USA	19
Towards an agency-based model of intersex, variations of sex characteristics (VSC) and DSD/dsd health	19
Delaying, debating and declining motherhood	18
Qualitative accounts of PrEP discontinuation from the general population in Eswatini	18
Obstetric violence in a group of Italian women: socio-demographic predictors and effects on mental health	16
Transgender men’s fertility preservation: experiences, social support, and the quest for genetic parenthood	15
Harms of third party criminalisation under end-demand legislation: undermining sex workers’ safety and rights	15
Affirming and negotiating gender in family and social spaces: Stigma, mental health and resilience among transmasculine people in India	15
Muscle dysmorphia: what about transgender people?	14
An investigation of Jezebel stereotype awareness, gendered racial identity and sexual beliefs and behaviours among Black adult women	14
A “tax” on gender affirmation and safety: costs and benefits of intranational migration for transgender young adults in the San Francisco Bay area	13
Gender norms and sexual consent in dating relationships: a qualitative study of university students in Vietnam	13
Experiences of gestational surrogacy for gay men in Canada	13
‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
The sexualised use of cannabis among young sexual minority men: “I’m actually enjoying this for the first time”	12
Women’s views on communication with health care providers about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention	12
Shared decision making for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with black transgender women	12
Explicitly racialised and extraordinarily over-represented: Black immigrant men in 25 years of news reports on HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada	11
Mental health, coping and resilience among young men who have sex with men in Zambia	11

‘I don't want to get in trouble’: a study of how adults with intellectual disabilities convert and navigate intellectual disability sexual fields	11
Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia	11
Pathways of change: qualitative evaluations of intimate partner violence prevention programmes in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Tajikistan	10
Sexual attitudes and behaviours among Arab American young adults in the USA	10
‘It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia	10
Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth: mapping the evidence	10
‘I trap her with a CD, then tomorrow find her with a big old man who bought her a smart phone’. Constructions of masculinities and transactional sex: a qualitative study from North-Western Tanzania	9
PrEP uptake as a social movement among gay and bisexual men	9
‘PrEP is like an adult using floaties’: meanings and new identities of PrEP among a niche sample of gay men	9
‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland	9
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	9
‘Being a good girl’: mother-daughter sexual communication in contemporary Vietnam	9
‘Direct’ and ‘instant’: the role of digital technology and social media in young Filipinos’ intimate relationships	8
How current and potential pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users experience, negotiate and manage stigma: disclosures and backstage processes in online discourse	8
The grip of pandemic mononormativity in Austria and Germany	8
‘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	8
Peer victimisation and depression among gender conforming and non-conforming Thai adolescents	8
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	8
‘Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’: reification of HIV ‘risk’ influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers	7
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic	7
Moral practices shaping HIV disclosure among young gay and bisexual men living with HIV in the context of biomedical advance	7
Social service responses to human trafficking: the making of a public health problem	7
Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic	7
Exploring young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s PrEP knowledge in Toronto, Ontario, Canada	7
Sex workers as peer researchers – a qualitative investigation of the benefits and challenges	7
‘If she gets married when she is young, she will give birth to many kids’: a qualitative study of child marriage practices amongst nomadic pastoralist communities in Kenya	7
‘Safe sex’: evaluation of sex education and sexual risk by young adults in Sydney	7
“I feel empowered”: women’s perspectives on and experiences with long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy in the USA and Spain	7
Sexual and reproductive health experiences of adolescent girls and women in marginalised communities in Bangladesh	7
‘That decision really was mine…’. Insider perspectives on health care controversies about intersex/diverse sex development	7
Do parents really know best? Informed consent to sex assigning and ‘normalising’ treatment of minors with variations of sex characteristics	7
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	6
‘I have the confidence to ask’: thickening agency among adolescent girls in Karnataka, South India	6
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	6
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	6
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	6
Desiring intimacy and building community: young, gay and living with HIV in the time of PrEP	6
Normalising intolerance: the efforts of Christian Right groups to block LGBTIQ+ inclusion in South African schools	6
Marital sexual violence and conjugality in highlands Papua New Guinea	6
Joining the tribe: adult circumcision among immigrant men in Israel and its traumatic aftermath	6
‘It’s history in the making all around us’: examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history	6
Delivering PrEP to adults with “low” or “no” HIV risk and youth: experiences and perspectives of PrEP providers	6
Psychosocial approaches and discursive gaps in intersex healthcare: findings from an Israeli–German action research study	6
Hispanic women’s perceptions of teenage sexting: qualitative analyses using a sexual scripting framework	6
What constitutes a good healthcare experience for unintended pregnancy? A qualitative study among young people in California	6
How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia	6
‘Sometimes, we don’t know if we’re getting abused’: discussions of intimate partner violence and HIV risk among transgender women	5
‘I never realised that sex between two women was not safe’: narratives of lesbian safer sex	5
Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles	5
The transformative effects of a participatory social empowerment intervention in the MAISHA intimate partner violence trial in Tanzania	5

Young people with a variation in sex characteristics in Aotearoa/New Zealand: identity, activism and healthcare decision-making	5
Adolescent girls’ perceived readiness for sex in Central Uganda - liminal transitions and implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions	5
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	5
Coping with the stress of providing mental health-related informal support to peers in an LGBTQ context	5
The influence of cash transfers on engagement in transactional sex and partner choice among adolescent girls and young women in Northwest Tanzania	5
Localocentricity, mental health and medical poverty in communication about sex work, HIV and AIDS among trans women engaged in sex work	5
Sexual and reproductive health challenges facing minority ethnic girls in Vietnam: a photovoice study	5
Tracking trends of transgender health research online: are researchers and the public on the same page?	5
The role of gender and romantic jealousy in intimate partner violence against women, a mixed-methods study in Northern Ecuador	5
Talking about sex with friends: perspectives of older adults from the Sex, Age & Me study in Australia	5
Being dragged into adulthood? Young people’s agency concerning sex, relationships and marriage in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia	5
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	5
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting	5
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	5
Regulating, fostering and preserving: the production of sexual normates through cognitive ableism and cognitive othering	5
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	5
Men’s needs and women’s fears: gender-related power dynamics in contraceptive use and coping with consequences in a rural setting in Kenya	5
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	5
HIV testing attitudes and practices amongst 'wealthy men': qualitative evidence from Tanzania	5
Practical justice as an innovative approach to addressing inequalities facing gender and sexually diverse people: a case example from Papua New Guinea	4
Access to fertility preservation for trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya	4
Factors associated with frequency of gender identity nonaffirmation microaggressions among transgender persons	4
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	4
Mothers' perceptions of the medicalisation of female genital cutting among the Kisii population in Kenya	4
What makes a woman? Understanding the reasons for and circumstances of female genital mutilation/cutting in Indonesia, Ethiopia and Kenya	4
Lifestyles, sexuality and gender: vulnerability to STIs and unplanned pregnancy among female migrant beer promoters in Lao PDR	4
‘It is guiding us to protect ourselves’: a qualitative investigation into why young people engage with a mass-media HIV education campaign	4
Health services we can trust: how same-sex attracted men in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania would like their HIV healthcare to be organised	4
Virality, desire and health assemblages: mapping (dis)continuities in the response to and management of HIV and COVID-19	4
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	4
Messages around contraceptive use and implications in rural Malawi	4
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	4
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	4
Structural vulnerability as a conceptual framework for transgender health research: findings from a community needs assessment of transgender women of colour in Detroit	4
Navigating the complexities of adult healthcare for individuals with variations of sex characteristics: from paediatric emergencies to a sense of abandonment	4
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of anal sex: implications for sex education and sexual health services in England	4
Gay,ngochani,ordaa,gumuteteandmwana waEriza: ‘globalised’ and ‘localised’ identity labels among same-sex attracted men in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
‘I love my job…it’s more the systems that we work in’: the challenges encountered by rural sexual and reproductive health practitioners and implications for access to care	4
An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	4
‘Eventually I wanted something more’: sexual self-reflections of South African women engaged in transactional sexual relationships with blessers	4
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	4
Characterising the structure of the largest online commercial sex network in the UK: observational study with implications for STI prevention	4
Male sex workers’ (in)visible risky bodies in international health development: now you see them, now you don’t	4
Sexual orientation and migration intentions among rural, exurban and urban adolescents in Iceland	4
‘With the kanyaleng and the help of god, you don’t feel ashamed’: women experiencing infertility in Casamance, Senegal	4
Our relationships, our values, our culture - Aboriginal young men’s perspectives about sex, relationships and gender stereotypes in Australia	4
‘I married when I was 16… due to poverty, I had no other way’: multi-level factors influencing HIV-related sexual risk behaviours among adolescent girls in Zambézia, Mozambique	4