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Papers

(The median citation count of Health Sociology Review 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic violence, coercive control and mental health in a pandemic: disenthralling the ecology of the domestic	20
Debakarn Koorliny Wangkiny : steady walking and talking using first nations-led participatory action research methodologies to build relationships	20
The good pain patient: a critical evaluation of patients’ self-presentations in specialist pain clinics	17
Matters of time in health and illness	17
Orchestrating rhythms in autism care: enacting parental expertise in and through time	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
Health professionals’ intervention in the context of domestic violence against women: exploring perceptions and experiences of providing healthcare	15
‘The night is for sleeping’: how nurses care for conflicting temporal orders in older person care	13
Burdening patients: qualitative analysis of healthism in community-based hypertension care in China	12
‘I think it's wrong, but it helps' – a focused ethnography of benzodiazepine practices in specialist palliative care	12
Resisting invisibility in healthcare responses to gender-based violence: a content analysis	12
Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity	10
Medication use for the management of professional performance: between invisibility and social normalisation	10
Building a Nyoongar work practice model for Aboriginal youth mental health: prioritising trust, culture and spirit, and new ways of working	10
Correction	9
Sedative administration in Spanish hospitals in the context of perinatal loss: findings from a mixed-methods study	9
Healing journeys: experiences of young Aboriginal people in an urban Australian therapeutic community drug and alcohol program	8
Learning how to live well: the transformative potential of youth AOD biopedagogies	8
The toxic gift: reciprocity and social capital in cigarette exchange in China	7
Shifting solutions: tracking transformations of drugs, health and the ‘human’ through human rights processes in Australia	7
Men, bodywork, health and the potentiality of performance and image-enhancing drugs	7
Temporalities of emergency: the experiences of Indigenous women with traumatic brain injury from violence waiting for healthcare and service support in Australia	6
How physiotherapists attend to the human aspects of care when working with people with low back pain: a thematic analysis	6
My time, your time, our time. Older patients’ and GPs’ time sensibilities around email consultations	6
How do people drink alcohol at a low-risk level?	6

Beyond the challenge to research integrity: imposter participation in incentivised qualitative research and its impact on community engagement	6
‘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	6
Relational approaches to conceptualising, measuring and enacting wellbeing and care in palliative and end-of-life contexts	5
Inclusive language in health policy – a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia	5
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: an embodied performance of one woman’s experience	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
Experiences of gender based violence and help seeking trends among women with disabilities: an analysis of the demographic and health surveys	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
Empathetic knowledge: conceptualising modes of knowing within families marked by illness	5
Gender and care in the context of rare diseases: exploring nuances of emotional support and the division of household labor	4
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses	4
Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy: experiences of people who use drugs seeking care for chronic non-cancer pain in Nigeria	4
The emotional labour of peer work: encountering stigma in mental healthcare spaces	4
Doing home: palliative care in ‘third places’	4
Temporalities of peer support: the role of digital platforms in the ‘living presents’ of mental ill-health	4
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
Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology	3
Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject	3
The contemporary (re-)configuration of global health governance: reevaluating health politics in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The healthcare field as a marketplace: general practitioners, pharmaceutical companies, and profit-led prescribing in Pakistan	3
Communicating the complex lives of families that include a child with Down syndrome	3