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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	96
Introduction to the Special Issue	84
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	66
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	52
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	49
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	49
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	47
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	45
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	42
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	41
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	35
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	34
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	30
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	29
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	23
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	22
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	21
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	21
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	20
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	19
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	19
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	18
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	17
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	17
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	17

Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	16
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	16
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	15
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	14
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	13
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	12
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	12
Policy Brief	12
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	12
Stability and Volatility in the Contextual Predictors of Working-Age Mortality in the United States	12
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	11
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	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	10
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	10
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	10
Author Index	10
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	9
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	9
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	9
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	8
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	8
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	8
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	8
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8