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 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
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
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
Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology	29
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
Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research	26
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	25
“Following Your Gut” or “Questioning the Scientific Evidence”: Understanding Vaccine Skepticism among More-Educated Dutch Parents	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
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
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	12
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
Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	11
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
Triage in Times of COVID-19: A Moral Dilemma	10
Crossover Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples	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
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
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