OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Theory & Health 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying	44
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality	11
“They are not almighty god, they are doctors, they are human”: a qualitative study of mechanisms underlying epistemic injustices in chronic pain patients’ testimonies	10
A critical interpretive synthesis to reimagine caring for people with a chronic and persistent mental illness in palliative care	8
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications	6
Negative health classifications: understanding avoidance and social exclusion during a pandemic	6
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes	6
Solidarity and recognition of identity: the case of informal care	5
Is there power in Mad knowledge?	5
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility	5
Conspiracy theory as a component of religious biopolitics	5
Experience and research: implications for mental health promotion	5
An explorative study on the challenges of solidarity in public health practice and teaching	4
Hospital beds as barometers	4
“It has to somehow permeate to the public”: expert views on the solidaristic potential of Israel’s National genomic biobank initiative	3
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs	3
Cultural competence for drug addiction and recovery: considerations for research and evaluation	3
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare	3
Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times	2
Mothering with migraine	2
The lived experience of chronic physical health conditions: an evaluation of the conceptual resources of epistemic injustice	2
Health lifestyles at work: availability, barriers and participation in workplace wellness	2
Enacting and re-politicising co-design: a critical perspective on eHealth interventions	2
Whither sociological theory in the health field?	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

Power relations and role boundaries between community first responders and ambulance clinicians in England: a qualitative study