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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research	159
Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities	61
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	55
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities	48
Sociology of Chronic Pain	45
“We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias through the Case of Contraception	40
Is John Henryism a Health Risk or Resource?: Exploring the Role of Culturally Relevant Coping for Physical and Mental Health among Black Americans	37
Colorism and Physical Health: Evidence from a National Survey	36
Health Power Resources Theory: A Relational Approach to the Study of Health Inequalities	34
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future	32
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patterns of Change in Canadian Workers	31
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China’s COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	31
Do Racial Differences in Coping Resources Explain the Black–White Paradox in Mental Health? A Test of Multiple Mechanisms	31
Social Cost and Health: The Downside of Social Relationships and Social Networks	31
Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology	29
Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research	26
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during COVID-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being?	26
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations for Health Inequalities Incomplete	26
“Following Your Gut” or “Questioning the Scientific Evidence”: Understanding Vaccine Skepticism among More-Educated Dutch Parents	25
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	25
Stigma Resistance and Well-Being in the Context of the Mental Illness Identity	24
Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits	24
Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace	22
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	21
Sexual Identity and Birth Outcomes: A Focus on the Moderating Role of Race-ethnicity	19

Occupations and Sickness-Related Absences during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives	15
(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course	15
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	14
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	13
From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority	13
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	13
Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults	13
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	12
COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health	12
Whose Good Death? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of Inequality in Hospitals	12
Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	11
Changes in Mental Health and Treatment, 1997–2017	11
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent’s Gender	11
Triage in Times of COVID-19: A Moral Dilemma	10
Crossover Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples	10
Evaluating the Continued Integration of Genetics into Medical Sociology	10
“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States	10
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered	10
Uncertain and under Quarantine: Toward a Sociology of Medical Ignorance	10
Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Partnership and Parenthood Status in Growing Disparities between Types of Families	9
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	8
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	8
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	8
Sexual Fluidity and Psychological Distress: What Happens When Young Women’s Sexual Identities Change?	8
Racial-Ethnic Residential Clustering and Early COVID-19 Vaccine Allocations in Five Urban Texas Counties	8
Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients	8
The “Own” and the “Wise” Revisited: Physical Disability, Stigma, and Mental Health among Couples	8
Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care	8
Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century	8
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	8
Public Stigma and Personal Networks: Confronting the Limitations of Unidimensional Measures of Social Contact	7
Black Mothers’ Concern for Their Children as a Measure of Vicarious Racism-Related Vigilance and Allostatic Load	6
Women’s Political Leadership and Adult Health: Evidence from Rural and Urban China	6
Resentment Is Like Drinking Poison? The Heterogeneous Health Effects of Affective Polarization	6
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	6
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	6
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control	6
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Dirty Work and Intimacy: Creating an Abortion Worker	5
The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States	5
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	5
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	5
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	5
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam	5
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	4
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	4
Early Origins of Body Mass in Later Life: Examining Childhood Risks and Adult Pathways	4
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	4

Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	4
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	4
The Sociocognitive Origins of Personal Mastery	3
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	3
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	3
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	3
Parental Depression and Contextual Selection: The Case of School Choice	3
The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	3
Beliefs about Legality and Benefits for Mental Health	3
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	3
Why Your Doctor Didn’t Go to Class: Student Culture, High-Stakes Testing, and Novel Coupling Configurations in an Allopathic Medical School	2
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	2
COVID-19’s Unequal Toll: Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life by Gendered and Racialized Groups	2
Socioeconomic-Status-Based Disrespect, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Shaming: A Potential Source of Health Inequalities?	2
Mothers’ Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and Their Health and Health Behaviors	2
The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health	2
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	2
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	2
Health, Suicidal Thoughts, and the Life Course: How Worsening Health Emerges as a Determinant of Suicide Ideation in Early Adulthood	2
Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being: School, Work, and Weight Status in Brazil	2
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms: Precarious Work and Social Marginality across European Countries	2
Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates	2
“It Wasn’t Very Public-Clinicy”: Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers	2
The Roles of Adolescent Occupational Expectations and Preparation in Adult Suicide and Drug Poisoning Deaths within a Shifting Labor Market	2