OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	113
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	76
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	71
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	55
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	27
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	26
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	23
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	22
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	21
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	19
Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas	18
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	18
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	18
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	16
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	15
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	15
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	14
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	14
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	13
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	13
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	13
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	12
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	12
Policy Brief	12
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12

Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	12
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	12
Author Index	11
Policy Brief	10
Author Index	10
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	10
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	10
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	10
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	10
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	9
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	8
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	8
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	8
Policy Brief	8
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	8
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	8
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	8
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	8
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	8