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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	20
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	16
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	16
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	14
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	14
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	13
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	13
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	12
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	12
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	12
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	12
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	12
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	12
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	12
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	12
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	12
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	12
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	11
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	11
Correction	10
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	10
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	10
Men who have sex with men experience low anxiety and few barriers to performing anal self or companion examinations: a qualitative study of the Prevent Anal Cancer Palpation Study	10
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan	10

Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda	9
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	9
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	9
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	9
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	9
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	9
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	9
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	9
‘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	9
Understanding drivers of female sex workers’ experiences of external/enacted and internalised stigma: findings from a cross-sectional community-centric national study in South Africa	9
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	9
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	8
Growing up in the shadow of HIV: post-AIDS generation of HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sweden and their perceptions of HIV and stigma	8
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana: cultural status vs. social strain	8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	8
Exploring the identities and experiences of young queer people in Mongolia using visual research methods	8
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	8
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	8
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	7
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	7
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	7
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	7
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	7
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	7
‘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	6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	6
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	6
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	6
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	6
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	6
The influence of intersectional stigma on mental health, uptake and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes for gender and sexuality diverse young people in Zimbabwe	6
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	6
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	6
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	6
Rituals of transition during pregnancy in contemporary societies: a scoping review	6
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	6
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	6
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	6
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA	6
Risk reconsidered: insights from a data saturation analysis of sexual health research amongst gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men	6
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	6
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	5
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	5
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	5
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	5
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5

#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	5
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	5
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	5
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	5
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	5
Affective belonging and negotiated authenticity: Vietnamese gay men navigating sexuality, kinship and emotional health in Thailand	5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	5
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	5
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	5
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	5
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making	4
‘We are aspiring to something that is not achievable by natural means’: a material-semiotic rendition of ‘technologies of the self’, steroid use, and social media among queer men in Winnipeg, Canada	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
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	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
Perceptions of medication and procedural abortion among medication abortion patients in Mississippi, USA	4
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	4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	4
‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4