Journal of Biosocial Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biosocial Science 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Child marriage, climate vulnerability and natural disasters in coastal Bangladesh30
The burden of hypertension and unmet need for hypertension care among men aged 15–54 years: a population-based cross-sectional study in India17
Factors associated with the number and timing of antenatal care visits among married women in Cameroon: evidence from the 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey15
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV testing among men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel modelling14
Long-term mating positively predicts both reproductive fitness and parental investment11
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and safer sex negotiation among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa10
The effects of sex, nation, ethnicity, age and self-reported pubertal development on participant-measured right-left 2D:4D (Dr-l) in the BBC internet study10
Influence of women’s empowerment indices on the utilization of skilled maternity care: evidence from rural Nigeria9
Association between female genital mutilation and girl-child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa9
Poverty, dowry and the ‘good match’: revisiting community perceptions and practices of child marriage in a rural setting in Bangladesh8
Induced abortion in Ghana: prevalence and associated factors8
Changes in adiposity and fat tissue distribution among preschool children from Kraków, Poland, from 2008 to 20188
Parental income inequality and children’s digit ratio (2D:4D): a ‘Trivers-Willard’ effect on prenatal androgenization?7
Changing sex differences in undernutrition of African children: findings from Demographic and Health Surveys7
Sexual debut among college students in China: effects of family context7
Is newborn survival influenced by place of delivery? A comparison of home, public sector and private sector deliveries in India7
Risk factors for Caesarean sections in Ghana: evidence from the Ghana Maternal Health Survey7
Short birth interval and associated factors in rural India: A cross-sectional study7
Does where mothers live matter? Regional variations in factors influencing place of child delivery in Nigeria7
Individual- and community-level factors associated with underweight and overweight among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis6
Effects of parental stature on child stunting in India6
Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda6
Changes in the adiposity level and prevalence of overweight/obesity among children from Kraków (Poland) within the last decade (from 2010 to 2020)6
Sequential impact of components of maternal and child health care services on the continuum of care in India6
The role of education in child and adolescent marriage in rural lowland Nepal5
Safer sex negotiation and parity among women in sub-Saharan Africa5
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.5
Cross-national data on informal caregivers of older people with long-term care needs in the European population: time for a more coordinated and comparable approach5
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan5
A success story of reduction in childhood stunting and underweight in India: analysis of pooled data from three rounds of Indian Demographic and Health Surveys (1998–2016)5
Family planning communication through mass media and health workers for promoting maternal health care utilization in Nigeria5
Overweight and obesity in preschool children in Turkey: A multilevel analysis5
Clients’ perceptions of the quality of post-abortion care in eight health facilities in Dakar, Senegal5
Association of basic vaccination with cognitive and learning ability among children: insights from the India Human Development Survey, 2004–05 and 2011–124
Critical medical ecology and intersectionality perspectives in schistosomiasis prevention and control in selected communities in Mindanao, the Philippines4
Fertility transition and socioeconomic development in districts of India, 2001–20164
The Bangladesh Maternal Health Voucher Scheme: impact on completeness of antenatal care provision4
Multiple realities around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among adolescents in Ghana4
Is consanguineous marriage related to spousal violence in India? Evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–164
Can changes in education alter future population ageing in Asia and Europe?4
Fertility intentions among the working population of Dalian City born between 1980 and 19894
Fertility intention-based birth forecasting in the context of China’s universal two-child policy: an algorithm and empirical study in Xi’an City3
Prevalence and predictors of spousal violence against women in Afghanistan: evidence from Demographic and Health Survey data3
Childbearing culture: a prominent context in the process of maternal role attainment in Iranian mothers with preterm neonates3
Rural–urban dimensions of the perception of malaria severity and practice of malaria preventive measures: insight from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey3
Declining yet persistent use of traditional contraceptive methods in low- and middle-income countries3
The impact of lifestyle and socioeconomic parameters on body fat level in early childhood3
Factors affecting contraceptive use among currently married women in Iraq in 20183
Factors influencing menstrual regulation and its socioeconomic inequalities among ever-married women in Bangladesh: Findings from a nationwide cross-sectional survey3
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective3
Assessment of non-communicable disease related lifestyle risk factors among adult population in Bangladesh3
Prevalence and factors associated with Anaemia in Married Women of Reproductive age group: Evidence from North East India3
Is cohabitation as a form of union formation a licence to intimate partner physical violence in Uganda?3
Do dietary patterns and morbidities have a relationship with primary infertility among women? A study from NFHS-4 (2015–16), India3
Sexual violence and self-reported sexually transmitted infections among women in sub-Saharan Africa3
Understanding inequalities in child immunization in India: a decomposition approach3
The prevailing trend of consanguinity in the Arab society of Israel: is it still a challenge?3
Anaemia status of preconception young married women in India3
Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho3
Socio-ecological determinants of under-five mortality in Nigeria: exploring the roles of neighbourhood poverty and use of solid cooking fuel3
What has comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge got to do with HIV testing among men in Kenya and Mozambique? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys3
Social environment perception and associations with overweight in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil3
Longstanding health risk across the life course: The influence of early-life experience on health status throughout the life span3
Socioeconomic correlates of sedentary time during pregnancy among women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK3
Knowledge, attitude, and practice of infertility: a comparative study in infertile and fertile Indian women3
Community-based social and demographic assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices and medical conditions related to vitamin D deficiency in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan2
Age-appropriate feeding practices and their association with undernutrition among children aged 6–23 months in aspirational districts of India: a multinomial analysis2
The practice of polygyny on the utilisation of reproductive health services among married women in Ghana2
Mid upper arm circumference as an alternative measure to assess the nutritional status of adolescents: a study in India based on NFHS-4 data2
Gender differences in dietary behaviours, health-related habits and prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Botswana2
Frequency of watching television, owning a mobile phone and risk of being overweight/obese among reproductive-aged women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A pooled analysis from Demographic a2
Gender differences in social environmental factors of psychological distress among Indonesian adolescents: Findings from the 2015 Global School-based Student Health Survey2
Variation and determinants of early initiation of breastfeeding in high and low neonatal mortality settings in India2
Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda’s response to COVID-19?2
What factors drive gender differences in the body mass index? Evidence from Turkish adults2
Risk factors and health status among older adults in Europe: a socioeconomic analysis2
Relationship between health insurance enrolment and unintended pregnancy in Ghana2
Contraception knowledge and practices among students in Lebanese universities2
Parental background and daughters’ and sons’ educational outcomes – application of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis2
Understanding the sex inequality in childlessness: an approach using Swedish register data2
Patterns and correlates of ownership and utilization of insecticide-treated bed-nets for malaria control among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) in Malawi2
Declining fertility and increasing use of traditional methods of family planning: a paradox in Uttar Pradesh, India?2
Gender and rural-urban differences in hypertension among youth in India: Insights from a large scale survey, 2015-162
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and body mass index in the BBC Internet Study: prenatal sex steroids and a Trivers–Willard effect on body composition2
Unintended pregnancy resolution among parous women in twelve low- and middle-income countries2
Associated factors of legal child marriage in Turkey: pregnancy and below-average intelligence2
HIV testing and ethnicity among adolescent girls and young women aged 15–24 years in Ghana: what really matters?2
Burden of Anaemia, Hypertension and Diabetes among pregnant women in India2
Age heaping among individuals in selected South Asian countries: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys2
Cohort fertility heterogeneity during the fertility decline period in Turkey2
Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa2
Inter-relationships between percentage body fat, relative subischial leg length and body mass index among adolescents and adults from the Limbu community of Darjeeling, West Bengal2
Regional variations in child and mother’s characteristics influencing the use of insecticide treated net in Nigeria2
Association between women’s empowerment and diarrhoea in children under five years: evidence from the 2017/18 Benin Demographic and Health Survey1
Intimate partner sexual violence against women in Sylhet, Bangladesh: some risk factors1
Weight gain is associated with shorter lifespan: a longitudinal study of New Zealand soldiers serving in both world wars1
Sociodemographic patterns of preterm birth and low birth weight among pregnant women in rural Mysore district, India: A latent class analysis1
Height growth of Mexican boys by geographic region: an evaluation based on nationally representative data of ENSANUT 2012 and 20181
Empirical linkages between female genital mutilation and multiple sexual partnership: evidence from the 2018 Mali and 2013 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Surveys1
Utilisation of public healthcare services by an indigenous group: a mixed-method study among Santals of West Bengal, India1
Association of spousal violence and women’s empowerment status among the rural women of sub-Saharan Africa1
Provider perspectives on Asram in Ghana1
Family orientation, working years and childbearing age: evidence from the China Family Panel Study 20141
‘Vaccines are for children only’? Some institutional roots of popular scepticism about vaccines for COVID-19 in Sierra Leone1
The experiences of familial mental illness stigma among individuals living with mental illnesses1
Social determinants of blood pressure control in a middle-income country in Latin America1
What factors are associated with forms of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth? A survey of referral health facilities in south-east Nigeria1
Intimate partner violence as a determinant of pregnancy termination among women in unions: evidence from the 2016–2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey1
Factors associated with reporting good maternal health-related knowledge among rural mothers of Yemen1
Nutrition within the household: 18th through early 20thcentury female and male statures1
The suggestive nature of words. Media coverage of homeopathy, acupuncture, reiki and Bach flower remedies in Spanish press 2011-20161
Intersectional Inequalities in Anthropometric Failure among Indian Children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016)1
Nutritional status of schoolchildren before and after confinement by COVID-19 (2019–2021) in Jujuy, Argentina1
Widowhood status, morbidity, and mortality in India: evidence from a follow-up survey1
Birth preparedness and complication readiness: Evaluating the “know-do” gap among women receiving antenatal care in Benin City, Nigeria1
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis1
Missing men in family planning: understanding the socio-spatial differentials in male sterilization and male spacing methods of contraception in India1
Why do women abort their pregnancies? Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2019–21) of India1
An application of Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis to improve models predicting contraceptive use in the Philippines1
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults1
Prevalence of and factors associated with insufficient physical activity among adolescents: evidence from a nationwide survey in Bangladesh1
Lean legacy, heavy heritage: family history of diabetes and its association with young adult body mass index1
Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender1
Revisiting the predisposing, enabling, and need factors of unsafe abortion in India using the Heckman Probit model1
Social determinants of chronic diseases reporting among slum dwellers in Egypt1
The effect of height on family formation in rural Spain, birth-cohorts 1835–19751
Do women with autonomy in the household experience less intimate partner violence in Malawi? Evidence from the 2015–16 Demographic and Health Survey1
Women’s migration to cities1
Socioeconomic factors and intergenerational differences in height of Portuguese adults born in 1990: results from the EPITeen cohort1
International comparisons of COVID-19 case and mortality data and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a plea for reconsideration1
Women’s education and desire for additional children in Vietnam: regional differences and the role of son preference1
Determinants of unmet need for family planning: Evidence from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey1
Attitude towards negotiating safer sexual relations: Exploring power dynamics among married couples in India1
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities1
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10–19 years in western Kenya: evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey1
Surnames and population structure in the Doctrine of Belén, Altos de Arica, Viceroyalty of Peru (1750–1813)1
Caesarean delivery in Uganda: Do non-clinical factors explain the trend?1
Factor Associated with HIV/AIDS knowledge among males: Findings from 2017-18 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey1
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