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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	207
Introduction to the Special Issue	77
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	76
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	59
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	58
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	47
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	46
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	44
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	41
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	40
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	39
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	38
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	36
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	35
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	33
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	32
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	30
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	30
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	28
Social Cost and Health: The Downside of Social Relationships and Social Networks	26
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	23
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	22
Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research	21
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	19
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19

How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	17
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	17
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations for Health Inequalities Incomplete	16
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	15
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	14
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	14
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	13
Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives	13
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	13
Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace	12
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	11
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	11
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	11
Policy Brief	11
Sociology of Chronic Pain	10
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	10
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	10
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	10
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	9
Author Index	9
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	9
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	9
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	8
Dirty Work and Intimacy: Creating an Abortion Worker	8
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	7
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	7
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	7
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	7
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	7
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	6
Spatial and Ethno-national Health Inequalities: Health and Mortality Gaps between Palestinians and Jews in Israel	6
Predicting Mental Health Care Enrollment and Treatment Uptake among Newly Arrived Refugees in U.S. Resettlement Programs	6
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	6
The Roles of Adolescent Occupational Expectations and Preparation in Adult Suicide and Drug Poisoning Deaths within a Shifting Labor Market	6
Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding	6
Policy Brief	6
The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems	6
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It?	5
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults	5
The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States	5
Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects	5
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	5
Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority	5
High School Curricular Rigor and Cognitive Function among White Older Adults	5
Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care	5
Less Time for Health: Parenting, Work, and Time-Intensive Health Behaviors among Married or Cohabiting Men and Women in the United States	5

The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	5
“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion	4
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants	4
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	4
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	4
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	4
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses	4
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early to Mid-adulthood	3
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	3
Duration-Weighted Exposure to Neighborhood Disadvantage and Racial-Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior	3
The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality?	3
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam	3
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	3
Policy Brief	3
Lifetimes of Vulnerability: Childhood Adversity, Poor Adult Health, and the Criminal Legal System	3
Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology	2
Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm	2
Sexual Fluidity and Psychological Distress: What Happens When Young Women’s Sexual Identities Change?	2
“It Wasn’t Very Public-Clinicy”: Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers	2
Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain	2
Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being	2
Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice	2
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks	2
Uncertain and under Quarantine: Toward a Sociology of Medical Ignorance	2
Policy Brief	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2