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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research	125
The Engaged Patient: The Relevance of Patient–Physician Communication for Twenty-First-Century Health	71
Beyond Net Worth: Racial Differences in Wealth Portfolios and Black–White Health Inequality across the Life Course	52
Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities	46
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	38
Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas	36
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities	34
“We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias through the Case of Contraception	34
Sociology of Chronic Pain	33
Is John Henryism a Health Risk or Resource?: Exploring the Role of Culturally Relevant Coping for Physical and Mental Health among Black Americans	33
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future	30
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patterns of Change in Canadian Workers	29
Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology	28
Criminal Justice Contacts and Psychophysiological Functioning in Early Adulthood: Health Inequality in the Carceral State	28
Health Power Resources Theory: A Relational Approach to the Study of Health Inequalities	27
Colorism and Physical Health: Evidence from a National Survey	26
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China’s COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	26
Status Variation in Anticipatory Stressors and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms	25
Do Racial Differences in Coping Resources Explain the Black–White Paradox in Mental Health? A Test of Multiple Mechanisms	25
Heterogeneity in Migrant Health Selection: The Role of Immigrant Visas	23
Social Cost and Health: The Downside of Social Relationships and Social Networks	23
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being	22
“Following Your Gut” or “Questioning the Scientific Evidence”: Understanding Vaccine Skepticism among More-Educated Dutch Parents	21
Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research	19
Control and the Health Effects of Work–Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Test of Generalized Versus Specific Stress Buffering	19

Religious Attendance and Physical Health in Later Life: A Life Course Approach	18
Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits	17
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories	17
Occupations and Sickness-Related Absences during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations for Health Inequalities Incomplete	17
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	17
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	16
What Is Driving the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States?	16
Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace	15
The Psychological Consequences of Disability over the Life Course: Assessing the Mediating Role of Perceived Interpersonal Discrimination	15
Stigma Resistance and Well-Being in the Context of the Mental Illness Identity	15
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during COVID-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being?	14
Sexual Identity and Birth Outcomes: A Focus on the Moderating Role of Race-ethnicity	14
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	11
From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority	11
Cancer Screening Participation and Gender Stratification in Europe	11
Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives	11
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	11
Evaluating the Continued Integration of Genetics into Medical Sociology	10
Crossover Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples	10
Social Class, Diagnoses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Child Well-Being	10
Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life	10
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	10
(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course	10
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent’s Gender	10
Racial Disparities in Emotional Well-Being during Pregnancy	9
Triage in Times of COVID-19: A Moral Dilemma	9
Whose Good Death? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of Inequality in Hospitals	9
Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults	9
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	9
Uncertain and under Quarantine: Toward a Sociology of Medical Ignorance	8
Racial-Ethnic Residential Clustering and Early COVID-19 Vaccine Allocations in Five Urban Texas Counties	8
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered	8
COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health	8
Changes in Mental Health and Treatment, 1997–2017	7
“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States	7
Organized Labor and Depression in Europe: Making Power Explicit in the Political Economy of Health	7
Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Partnership and Parenthood Status in Growing Disparities between Types of Families	7
Understanding the Barriers of Violence Victims’ Health Care Use	7
The “Own” and the “Wise” Revisited: Physical Disability, Stigma, and Mental Health among Couples	7
Transcending the Profession: Psychiatric Patients’ Experiences of Trust in Clinicians	7
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	7
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	7
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	6
Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients	6
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Sexual Fluidity and Psychological Distress: What Happens When Young Women’s Sexual Identities Change?	5
Dirty Work and Intimacy: Creating an Abortion Worker	5
Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century	5
Women’s Political Leadership and Adult Health: Evidence from Rural and Urban China	5

The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States	4
Resentment Is Like Drinking Poison? The Heterogeneous Health Effects of Affective Polarization	4
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	4
Let’s Drink to Being Socially Active: Family Characteristics, Social Participation, and Alcohol Abuse across Mid- and Later-life	4
Public Stigma and Personal Networks: Confronting the Limitations of Unidimensional Measures of Social Contact	4
Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care	4
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	4
Early Origins of Body Mass in Later Life: Examining Childhood Risks and Adult Pathways	4
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control	4
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	3
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam	3
What Is Driving the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States?	3
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	3
Parental Depression and Contextual Selection: The Case of School Choice	3
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	2
Beliefs about Legality and Benefits for Mental Health	2
Why Your Doctor Didn’t Go to Class: Student Culture, High-Stakes Testing, and Novel Coupling Configurations in an Allopathic Medical School	2
Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates	2
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	2
Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being: School, Work, and Weight Status in Brazil	2
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	2
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	2
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms: Precarious Work and Social Marginality across European Countries	2
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	2
Mothers’ Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and Their Health and Health Behaviors	2
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	2
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	2