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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	42
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	35
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	19
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	17
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	15
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	14
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	14
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	13
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	12
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	12
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	12
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	11
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	11
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	11
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	10
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	10
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	10
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	10
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	10
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan	10
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	10
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	10
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	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	9

The Beijing Rainbow Film Festival: between depoliticisation and performative activism	9
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	9
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	9
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	9
Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda	9
Correction	9
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	9
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	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
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	8
‘I don’t live in my body somehow’: metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of vaginismus and dyspareunia	8
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	8
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	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
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	8
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	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
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	7
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	7
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	7
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	7
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	7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	7
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	7
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	6
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	6
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	6
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	6
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	6
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	6
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	6
‘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
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	6
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	6
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA	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
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
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	5
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	5
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	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
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	5
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	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

Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	5
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	5
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	5
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	5
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	5
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	5
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	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
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	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
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana	4
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development	4
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	4
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	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
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	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
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	4
‘My choice, my responsibility’: views of Danish and Israeli female students on financing egg-freezing	4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
‘It changes everything’: the impact of HIV-related stigma on sexual health and intimacy among African American women	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
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	4
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	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
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	4