OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Action Research is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research: Bearing witness to developmental transformations for college student activists	17
Appreciating situations of breakdown for researcher reflexivity	12
Restorative action research: Fostering wellbeing as a collective, relational, vital endeavor	9
Epistemic injustice and dissidence: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on Participatory Action Research hosted on the Web of Science	8
Doing feminist participatory action research for disrupting traditional gender discourses with Indonesian Muslim kindergarten teachers	8
Artfulness in the Organisational Playground: Actions and choices-Editorial	8
How to do action research for transformations at a time of eco-social crisis, by Hilary S. Bradbury. Elgar, 2022. Four characters in search of a book review	8
Digital storytelling within a community-based mental health improvement programme (ARCLIGHT) in Guyana	6
Transforming collaboration between communities and non-governmental organisations: Reflections on learning spaces in Central-Eastern Uganda	5
Action Researchers Book++ Review	5
Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development	5
Action Researching for Transformations is Anti Patriarchy Work	4
Taking boys seriously: Utilising participatory action research to tackle compounded educational disadvantage	4
Reflections from an insider researcher ‘doing’ feminist participatory action research to co-produce a research agenda with British Pakistani women; a seldom heard group	4
Earth for all: Five policy turnarounds for a sustainable world	4
Extending co-operative inquiry beyond the human: Ontopoetic inquiry with rivers	3
In search of the ontology of participation in Participatory Action Research: Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Turn, 1977–1980	3
Preparing educational leaders through action research	3
Imaginal knowing in action research	3
The affordances of PAR for a school-community partnership to enhance learner support in socio-economically challenged communities	3
Caring in action research	3
Constructive developmental interiority: Deliberately transformative action research	3
‘A clear center but no clear boundaries.’ The construction of professional identities in spiritual care through boundary work in participatory action research within health care	3
Action research with sociodrama in a healthcare institution	3
“I don’t like to ask for charity”: The possibilities of social inclusion among immigrant low-income Latina mothers via feminist action research	3

Caucasus edition: Decentralized transnational network as a pivotal structure for peacebuilding in non-democratic environments	3
‘Taking knowledge on a journey’: Creating conditions for epistemic justice	2
Into the periphery: Acting into fleeting, unfinished, just perceptible movements of experience in scenes of joint action	2
Zining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums	2
Benefits of reflection-based monitoring in action research projects	2
Systematization of the methodology of children and adolescents as co-researchers. The research case on school engagement and contextual factors in Chile	2
Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods	2
Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home	2
It’s a Mindset Revolution! Co-creating inclusive spaces of participation on youth mental health	2
Learning from feminist participatory action research: A framework for responsive and generative research practices with young people	2
Co-creating organizational welfare through action-research: Insights from the case of a social cooperative	2
John Heron 1928-2022: A personal memoir by Peter Reason	2
Toward equity: Power, cultural hegemony, and organizations	1
Heartbeat recordings in music therapy bereavement care following suicide: Action research single case study of amplified cardiopulmonary recordings for continuity of care	1
Using a virtual platform for an asynchronous co-operative inquiry	1
Co-creating with teachers during participatory action research: Teachers’ perceptions, researchers’ dilemmas, and some possible strategies to enhance communication in the field	1
ARJ special issue: The inner journey and mindset shifts of transformation	1
Consolidating strategies for innovative business models	1
Social innovation in the making: Action research on relationship building and role understanding in the co-development of a Participatory Guarantee System in Argentina	1
Artfulness in the organisational playground: Actions and choices	1
“Everybody’s talking about doing co-design, but to really truly genuinely authentically do it […] it’s bloody hard”: Radical openness in youth participatory action research	1
Applying ‘merging of knowledge’ in Tanzania: What can we learn about interrupting patterned relationships to reveal hidden dimensions of poverty?	1
Antiracism in appreciative inquiry: Generative tensions and collective reflexivity	1
Images and indicators: mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour	1
The experience of youth-participatory action research in a social innovation lab: A methodological and organizational approach	1