OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	143
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	95
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	74
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	26
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	25
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	23
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	21
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	21
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	20
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	20
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	19
Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas	18
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	15
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	15
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	15
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	14
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	14
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	14
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	13
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	13
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	12
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	12
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	11
Policy Brief	11

Policy Brief	11
Author Index	11
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	10
Policy Brief	10
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	9
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	9
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	9
Author Index	8
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	8
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	8
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	8
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Chronic Pain in Vietnam: Risk, Resilience, and Timing	8
Emotion Work and Spousal Dementia Caregiving: Influences of Gender and Sexual Orientation	7
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	7
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	7
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	7
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	7
Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding	6
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	6
The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems	6
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	6
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	6
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	6