Social Science & Medicine

Article	Citations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests	1108
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	648
How and why patients made Long Covid	492
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review	338
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study	336
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents	323
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19	293
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue	269
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults	254
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective	254
Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID-19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic	249
The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review	239
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries	191
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic	184
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities	143
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review	131
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19	118
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors	116
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis	114
Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research	104
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions	101
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment	96
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?	95
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis	94
Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine	91

The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers	87
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review	87
Excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: Early evidence from England and Wales	86
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China	83
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework	82
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States	81
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany	80
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults	79
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis	77
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism	72
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion	71
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions	69
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries	69
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies	68
Long Covid – The illness narratives	67
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China	67
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.	66
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review	66
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility	64
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic	62
“We are fierce, independent thinkers and intelligent”: Social capital and stigma management among mothers who refuse vaccines	61
Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings	60
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States	59
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom	59
Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment	59
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries	59
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature	58
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis	58
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries	57
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation	56
Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease	56
Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami	55
Does long-term care insurance reduce hospital utilization and medical expenditures? Evidence from China	55
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t	54
Intergenerational communities: A systematic literature review of intergenerational interactions and older adults’ health-related outcomes	54
Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis	54
‘I am the master key that opens and locks’: Presentation and application of a conceptual framework for women's and girls' empowerment in reproductive health	53
The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach	53
Stunted from the start: Early life weather conditions and child undernutrition in Ethiopia	52
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities	52
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions	51
Time of pandemic: Temporal perspectives related to compliance with public health regulations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic	51
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach	51
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review	50
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis	49
Economic complexity and health outcomes: A global perspective	48
Social factors and worry associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a large survey in China	48
Normalised pain and severe health care delay among people who inject drugs in London: Adapting cultural safety principles to promote care	48
Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US	48
Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19	47

Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents	45
Mechanisms connecting objective and subjective poverty to mental health: Serial mediation roles of negative life events and social support	45
Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak	44
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era	44
Economic growth, income inequality and life expectancy in China	44
Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach	44
Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Gendered syndemic of intimate partner violence, alcohol misuse, and HIV risk among peri-urban, heterosexual men in South Africa	44
Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?	44
The structural vulnerability of healthcare workers during COVID-19: Observations on the social context of risk and the equitable distribution of resources	43
The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil	43
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors	42
Changing emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China	42
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors	42
Psychosocial consequences of transitioning into informal caregiving in male and female caregivers: Findings from a population-based panel study	42
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college	42
Confidence in social institutions, perceived vulnerability and the adoption of recommended protective behaviors in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Do personal health concerns and trust in healthcare providers mitigate privacy concerns? Effects on patients’ intention to share personal health data on electronic health records	40
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	40
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	40
Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities: A systematic review of observational studies in high-income countries	40
Area level deprivation and monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of government policy in England	40
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A field experiment in India	40
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	40
HPV Vaccine Promotion: The church as an agent of change	39
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review	39
Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments	39
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States	39
Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China	39
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases	39
Spatial patterns and social-economic influential factors of population aging: A global assessment from 1990 to 2010	38
The contested meaning of “long COVID” – Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence	38
Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?	38
Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach	38
Rethinking One Health: Emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages	38
Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review	37
Unintended consequences of institutionalizing peer support work in mental healthcare	37
The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data	37
Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control	37
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples’ relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany	37
Power and the people's health	37
Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends	37
Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables	36
Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents	36
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT	36
Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels	35
The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID	35
A multi-national test on self-reported compliance with COVID-19 public health measures: The role of individual age and gender demographics and countries’ developmental status	35
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review	34
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities	34
“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination	34
The long-term financial and psychological resettlement outcomes of pre-migration trauma and post-settlement difficulties in resettled refugees	34
Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender	34
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification	34
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	34
An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration	34
Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments	34
Health in widowhood: The roles of social capital and economic resources	34
The impact of food insecurity on mental health in Africa: A systematic review	33
An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”	33
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence	33
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women	33
“People need them or else they're going to take fentanyl and die”: A qualitative study examining the ‘problem’ of prescription opioid diversion during an overdose epidemic	33
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation	33
Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers	33
Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19	32
The double-edged sword of digital self-care: Physician perspectives from Northern Germany	32
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Modelling of COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases: A Baseline Socio-economic Compartmental Model	32
Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories	32
Frailty and depression: Reciprocal influences or common causes?	32
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries	32
“The state They're in”: Unpicking fantasy paradigms of health improvement interventions as tools for addressing health inequalities	32
Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience	32
A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries	32
“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience	32
Changes in population movement make COVID-19 spread differently from SARS	32
Alcohol use and the COVID-19 pandemic: Historical trends in drinking, contexts, and reasons for use among U.S. adults	32
Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID19	32
Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review	32
Engagement in leisure activities and depression in older adults in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	32

Life-course trajectories of employment quality and health in the U.S.: A multichannel sequence analysis	32
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?	31
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe	31
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals	31
COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America	31
The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study	31
Perceived social support and health-related quality of life in older adults who have multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a dyadic analysis	31
Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country	31
Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries	31
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review	31
Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?	30
Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia	30
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of U.S. vital statistics data from 2009 to 2018	30
Minority stress and health: A grounded theory exploration among men who have sex with men in China and implications for health research and interventions	30
Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets	30
Applying an intersectional framework to understand syndemic conditions among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	30
Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents	30
Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life	29
Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression	29
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana	29
Perceived pathways between tourism gentrification and health: A participatory Photovoice study in the Gòtic neighborhood in Barcelona	29
The mediating role of constructs representing reasoned-action and automatic processes on the past behavior-future behavior relationship	29
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–2017	29
Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise	29
Change in psychological distress in response to changes in reduced mobility during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of modest effects from the U.S.	29
“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare	29
Relationship between costs and clinical benefits of new cancer medicines in Australia, France, the UK, and the US	29
Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines	29
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis	29
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy	29
Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia	28
Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study	28
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review	28
Does community-level social capital mitigate the impact of widowhood & living alone on depressive symptoms?: A prospective, multi-level study	28
Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them	28
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	28
Perceptions and experiences of stigma among parents of children with developmental disorders in Ethiopia: A qualitative study	28
Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care	28
Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008–2017	28
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa	27
Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework	27
Personality and self-rated health across eight cohort studies	27
Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans	27
Examining the associations between oral health and social isolation: A cross-national comparative study between Japan and England	27
The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	27
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan	27
Social contact, social support, and cognitive health in a population-based study of middle-aged and older men and women in rural South Africa	27
An integrative method for analyzing spatial accessibility in the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system in China	27
Determinants of non-prescription antibiotic dispensing in Chinese community pharmacies from socio-ecological and health system perspectives	27
Associations of religiosity, attitudes towards suicide and religious coping with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in 11 muslim countries	27
“Talk about it:” changing masculinities and mental health in rural places?	27
Inequalities in life expectancy: An analysis of 201 countries, 1950–2015	27
State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study	26
Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping	26
Household energy insecurity: dimensions and consequences for women, infants and children in low- and middle-income countries	26
Cross-sectional associations of neighborhood third places with social health among community-dwelling older adults	26
Understanding integrated care at the frontline using organisational learning theory: A participatory evaluation of multi-professional teams in East London	26
Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review	26
Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities	26
Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands	26
Longitudinal associations of psychological resilience with mental health and functioning among military personnel: A meta-analysis of prospective studies	25
Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade	25
The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers	25
The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies	25
The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities	25
Lifestyle behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being: A daily diary study	25
The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations	25
Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission	25
The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy between maternal engagement with anti- and pro-vaccine social media posts and adolescent HPV-vaccine uptake rates in the US: The perspective of loss aversion in	25
The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings	25
Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa	24
Syndemic theory, methods, and data	24
Linked fate and mental health among African Americans	24
Spatial heterogeneity of the associations of economic and health care factors with infant mortality in China using geographically weighted regression and spatial clustering	24
‘Problem patients and physicians’ failures': What it means for doctors to counsel vaccine hesitant patients in Switzerland	24
Working toward evidence-based guidelines for cost-of-care conversations between patients and physicians: A systematic review of the literature	24
Media guidelines and suicide: A critical review	24
Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	24
Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions	24
Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter	24
Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?	24
Beyond single sleep measures: A composite measure of sleep health and its associations with psychological and physical well-being in adulthood	24
Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?	24
Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning	24
Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study	24
Examining associations of food insecurity with major depression among older adults in the wake of the Great Recession	24
How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance	23
Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment	23
Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review	23
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study	23
Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities	23
Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study	23
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the “Women Empowered” approach	23
Health tourism destinations as therapeutic landscapes: Understanding the health perceptions of senior seasonal migrants	23