OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 19. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	233
Introduction to the Special Issue	93
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	84
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	66
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	48
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	48
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	46
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	45
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	43
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	42
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	41
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	34
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	33
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	32
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	28
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	28
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	23
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	22
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	21
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	19
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	19