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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘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	19
Artfulness in the Organisational Playground: Actions and choices-Editorial	13
Earth for all: Five policy turnarounds for a sustainable world	11
Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home	8
Epistemic injustice and dissidence: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on Participatory Action Research hosted on the Web of Science	8
Autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research: Bearing witness to developmental transformations for college student activists	8
Action Researchers Book++ Review	8
Towards right to work: A reflexive analysis on an action research	6
“I don’t like to ask for charity”: The possibilities of social inclusion among immigrant low-income Latina mothers via feminist action research	6
University and democratization: A training project in action research with social movements	5
The power of co-action research: Editorial	5
Co-creating organizational welfare through action-research: Insights from the case of a social cooperative	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
Extending co-operative inquiry beyond the human: Ontopoetic inquiry with rivers	4
Methodology for a time of eco-social planetary crisis: Action research helping transformations happen	4
Restorative action research: Fostering wellbeing as a collective, relational, vital endeavor	4
Systematization of the methodology of children and adolescents as co-researchers. The research case on school engagement and contextual factors in Chile	3
Imaginal knowing in action research	3
Co-creating with teachers during participatory action research: Teachers’ perceptions, researchers’ dilemmas, and some possible strategies to enhance communication in the field	3
The debt diaries: Turning participatory ethnography into action research	3
Antiracism in appreciative inquiry: Generative tensions and collective reflexivity	3
Preparing educational leaders through action research	3
Four practices for conducting feminist participatory action research with young women	3
In search of the ontology of participation in Participatory Action Research: Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Turn, 1977–1980	3
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	3

Empathy in action research	3
It’s a Mindset Revolution! Co-creating inclusive spaces of participation on youth mental health	3
Book Review: for Action Research Journal - Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild	3
Edgar H. Schein 1928-2023: A Reflective Appreciation by David Coghlan	2
Shining light on the dark side of action research: Power, relationality and transformation	2
Action Research Pedagogy in Educational Institutions: Emancipatory, Relational, Critical and Contextual	2
A dynamic regional branding process as a governance tool for sustainability transitions	2
Toward equity: Power, cultural hegemony, and organizations	2
Artfulness in the organisational playground: Actions and choices	2
Action research: Time to act with maturity	2
How long-term emancipatory programming facilitates participatory evaluation: Building a methodology of participation through research with youth in Honduras	2
Artfulness as a dimension of professional practice in organizations and action research: Acknowledging sensory-aware and embodied attunement in professional organizations	2
Heartbeat recordings in music therapy bereavement care following suicide: Action research single case study of amplified cardiopulmonary recordings for continuity of care	2
RETRACTED: Proposing an emancipatory pedagogy of body-mapping in higher education: Theory and practical integration of arts-based research as a form of Action Research for Transformation	2
Action research cultures: Transforming university systems, norms, and practices	2
Transforming collaboration between communities and non-governmental organisations: Reflections on learning spaces in Central-Eastern Uganda	2
Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development	1
‘Taking knowledge on a journey’: Creating conditions for epistemic justice	1
Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods	1
Appreciating situations of breakdown for researcher reflexivity	1
Caring in action research	1
Benefits of reflection-based monitoring in action research projects	1
John Heron 1928-2022: A personal memoir by Peter Reason	1
Action Researching for Transformations is Anti Patriarchy Work	1
Zining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums	1