OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Sociology Review is 2. 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
Debakarn Koorliny Wangkiny : steady walking and talking using first nations-led participatory action research methodologies to build relationships	34
The use of E-health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study in China’s Hubei province	20
Domestic violence, coercive control and mental health in a pandemic: disenthralling the ecology of the domestic	18
Matters of time in health and illness	17
Understanding the role of context in health policy implementation: a qualitative study of factors influencing traditional medicine integration in the Indian public healthcare system	17
The good pain patient: a critical evaluation of patients’ self-presentations in specialist pain clinics	14
Orchestrating rhythms in autism care: enacting parental expertise in and through time	14
Health professionals’ intervention in the context of domestic violence against women: exploring perceptions and experiences of providing healthcare	13
‘I think it's wrong, but it helps' – a focused ethnography of benzodiazepine practices in specialist palliative care	12
‘The night is for sleeping’: how nurses care for conflicting temporal orders in older person care	12
Resisting invisibility in healthcare responses to gender-based violence: a content analysis	11
Burdening patients: qualitative analysis of healthism in community-based hypertension care in China	10
Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity	10
Building a Nyoongar work practice model for Aboriginal youth mental health: prioritising trust, culture and spirit, and new ways of working	10
Learning how to live well: the transformative potential of youth AOD biopedagogies	9
Medication use for the management of professional performance: between invisibility and social normalisation	9
Correction	9
Healing journeys: experiences of young Aboriginal people in an urban Australian therapeutic community drug and alcohol program	8
Sedative administration in Spanish hospitals in the context of perinatal loss: findings from a mixed-methods study	8
The toxic gift: reciprocity and social capital in cigarette exchange in China	7
Men, bodywork, health and the potentiality of performance and image-enhancing drugs	7
My time, your time, our time. Older patients’ and GPs’ time sensibilities around email consultations	6
Beyond the challenge to research integrity: imposter participation in incentivised qualitative research and its impact on community engagement	6
How do people drink alcohol at a low-risk level?	6
Shifting solutions: tracking transformations of drugs, health and the ‘human’ through human rights processes in Australia	6

How physiotherapists attend to the human aspects of care when working with people with low back pain: a thematic analysis	5
Temporalities of emergency: the experiences of Indigenous women with traumatic brain injury from violence waiting for healthcare and service support in Australia	5
‘And that was her choice’: Dutch general practitioners’ perceptions of the autonomy of patients with non-western migration backgrounds who experience domestic violence	5
Relational approaches to conceptualising, measuring and enacting wellbeing and care in palliative and end-of-life contexts	5
Using research feedback loops to implement a disability case study with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and service providers in regional and remote Australia	5
‘Just because I’m smiling doesn’t mean I’m not in pain’: navigating the layered stigma of chronic pain and suicidality in social worlds	5
Empathetic knowledge: conceptualising modes of knowing within families marked by illness	4
Doing home: palliative care in ‘third places’	4
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: an embodied performance of one woman’s experience	4
Experiences of gender based violence and help seeking trends among women with disabilities: an analysis of the demographic and health surveys	4
Inclusive language in health policy – a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia	4
Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy: experiences of people who use drugs seeking care for chronic non-cancer pain in Nigeria	4
The healthcare field as a marketplace: general practitioners, pharmaceutical companies, and profit-led prescribing in Pakistan	3
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses	3
Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology	3
Temporalities of peer support: the role of digital platforms in the ‘living presents’ of mental ill-health	3
Listening deeply to refugee background women to understand experiences of domestic and family violence in their communities to foster engagement with global support systems	3
Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject	3
The emotional labour of peer work: encountering stigma in mental healthcare spaces	3
Gender and care in the context of rare diseases: exploring nuances of emotional support and the division of household labor	3
Communicating the complex lives of families that include a child with Down syndrome	2
Abortion stigma, abortion exceptionalism, and medical curricula	2
The myth of medical multiculturalism: how social closure marginalises traditional Chinese medicine in New Zealand	2
Unsettling knowledge boundaries: the Indigenous pitiki space for Basotho women’s sexual empowerment and reproductive well-being	2
COVID-19 and nurse practitioner autonomy: a quantitative analysis and analytic narrative of nurse practitioner professionalisation amid physician dominance	2
Plantocratic patriarchal culture, violence against women and girls and the failures of the global health system: an interview with Marsha Hinds Myrie and Anya A. A. Lorde	2
Relationship between social cohesion and basic public health services utilisation among Chinese internal migrants: a perspective of socioeconomic status differentiation	2
Multidisciplinary team meetings: dynamic routines that (re)make palliative care	2