OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Health and Social Behavior 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	106
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	74
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	27
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	25
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	24
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	24
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	23
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	21
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	21
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	18
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	17
Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas	16
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	16
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	15
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	15
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	14
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	14
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	14
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	14
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	13
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	13
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Author Index	11
Policy Brief	11
Permeable Boundaries: How Neighboring States’ Policy Environments Shape Local Mortality Rates in the United States	11

Early-Life Bilingualism and Midlife Cognitive Health: Evidence from High School and Beyond	11
Policy Brief	11
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	10
Policy Brief	10
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	10
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	9
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	9
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	9
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	9
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	8
Author Index	8
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	8
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Chronic Pain in Vietnam: Risk, Resilience, and Timing	8
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	7
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	7
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	7
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	7
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	7
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	7
Emotion Work and Spousal Dementia Caregiving: Influences of Gender and Sexual Orientation	7
Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding	6
The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems	6
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	6
Spatial and Ethno-national Health Inequalities: Health and Mortality Gaps between Palestinians and Jews in Israel	6
Home Advantage or Hidden Strain? The Mental Health Effects of Working from Home across Gender, Childcare Status, and Occupational Class before and since the Pandemic	6
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	6
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	6
Saving Maternal Health: The Racialized Labor and Burnout of Birthworkers of Color in the United States	6
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	5
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It?	5
The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	5
Multigenerational Coresidence and Psychological Distress during Adolescence and Young Adulthood: An Exploration among White, Black, and Hispanic Individuals	5
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults	5
Predicting Mental Health Care Enrollment and Treatment Uptake among Newly Arrived Refugees in U.S. Resettlement Programs	5
High School Curricular Rigor and Cognitive Function among White Older Adults	5
Whose American Dream? Examining the John Henryism Hypothesis for Psychological Distress among African American and Caribbean Black Women	5
Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects	5
Less Time for Health: Parenting, Work, and Time-Intensive Health Behaviors among Married or Cohabiting Men and Women in the United States	5
Does Your Subject Make You Sick? How Academic Majors Shape Students’ Self-Rated Health	5
Two Sides of Childhood: How Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences Shape Adolescent Substance Use	4
Multilevel Examination of Hospital Participation in the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI): The Role of Geographic Location and State Health Care Policies	4
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants	4
Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
A Life Course Perspective on Cognitive Aging: The Interplay between Early and Later Life Stimulating Environments	4
Life Course Dynamics in the Health of Mothers Raising Children with Serious Conditions	4
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses	4
The Political Economy of Health Care: State Policy Liberalism and the Distribution and Diversity of the U.S. Health Care Workforce, 1960–2019	4
“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion	3
Rebuilding Lives: The Intersection of Reintegration and Psychological Distress after Incarceration for Genocide	3
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early toMid-adulthood	3

Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	3
Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective	3
Policy Brief	3
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	3
Removing the Shroud: Revealing Cause of Death Patterns among Adults with Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease	3
State Policy Liberalism in Adolescence and Risk for Dementia from 2000 to 2016 among Older U.S. Adults	3
The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality?	3
Agentic Recombination of Health Behaviors into Adult Health Lifestyles	3
Policy Brief	3
Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being	2
Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm	2
Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain	2
Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling?	2
Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice	2
Effects of Self-Rated Health on Union Formation and Dissolution in Six Countries	2
Cultural Authority and (Non) Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
“It Wasn’t Very Public-Clinicy”: Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers	2
Pathways to Autonomy: Chinese Physicians’ Responses to Clinical Pathways amid Institutional Complexity	2
Immigrant Generation and Depressive Symptom Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Midlife: Evidence from Add Health	2
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Lifetimes of Vulnerability: Childhood Adversity, Poor Adult Health, and the Criminal Legal System	2
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks	2
Policy Brief	2
How “Clocking in” Ages Us: An Examination of Work History, Work Quality, and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Older Adulthood	2