OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Theory & Health 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘You’d think they’d know’: social epistemology and informal carers of mental health service users	26
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality	17
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying	12
What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?	9
A critical interpretive synthesis to reimagine caring for people with a chronic and persistent mental illness in palliative care	8
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes	8
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital	6
“They are not almighty god, they are doctors, they are human”: a qualitative study of mechanisms underlying epistemic injustices in chronic pain patients’ testimonies	6
An explorative study on the challenges of solidarity in public health practice and teaching	5
Negative health classifications: understanding avoidance and social exclusion during a pandemic	5
Experience and research: implications for mental health promotion	5
Is there power in Mad knowledge?	5
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications	5
Solidarity and recognition of identity: the case of informal care	4
“It has to somehow permeate to the public”: expert views on the solidaristic potential of Israel’s National genomic biobank initiative	3
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare	3
Cultural competence for drug addiction and recovery: considerations for research and evaluation	3
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs	3
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility	3
Street-level bureaucrat's coping strategies in health policy implementation: a comparative case study from Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Ghana	2
Extending Durkheim’s sociology of suicide to healthcare decision-making: towards a sociology of choice as a social phenomenon of integration and regulation	2
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis	2
Whither sociological theory in the health field?	2
Enacting and re-politicising co-design: a critical perspective on eHealth interventions	2
Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times	2

Mothering with migraine	2
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation	1
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe	1
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping	1
Milky bonds: exploring solidarity in human milk banking	1
Engagement and qualitative sociology in health research: proximal, but incongruent	1
Global implications of diabetes biomedicalization	1
Risk management in a global market of alternative addiction care: a case study of the ibogaine medical subculture	1
Patients’ knowledge and their trust in surgical doctors. A questionnaire-based study and a theoretical discussion from Norway	1
Confiding in strangers: trust and mental health service use in China	1
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa	1