OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 9. 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
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	30
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	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

Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	17
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	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
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	14
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	14
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
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	13
Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace	12
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	11
Policy Brief	11
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
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
Sociology of Chronic Pain	10
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	10
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	9
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