OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Studies-A Journal of Demography is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	46
The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico	41
Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50	28
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data	28
The illusion of stable fertility preferences	28
What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?	24
Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India	22
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	22
Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy	21
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation	14
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia	13
Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data	12
Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway	12
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	12
Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers	12
Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction	11
The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe	11
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	11
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations	11
Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries	10
Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden	10
No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany	9
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe	9
A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality	9
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	8

Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19	8
Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018	7
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research	7
Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe	7
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant	6
The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system	6
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues?	6
Shifting the reproductive window: The contribution of ART and egg donation to fertility rates in the UK	6
Home-based work and childbearing	6
Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations?	5
Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey	5
Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil	5
Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences	5
Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy	5
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II	5
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification	5
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain	5
A new test of an old hypothesis: The link between women’s perceptions of mortality conditions and their perceptions of modern healthcare amid demographic transition	5
Population Studies at 75 years: An empirical review	5
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation	5
Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden	4
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood	4
Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults	4
Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants	4
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss	4
Son preference and sex differentials in receipt of key dimensions of children’s healthcare: Evidence from Pakistan	4
Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education	4
Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning	4
The shifting rural–urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries	3
Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains	3
Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy	3
Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics	3
Experiences of victimization before resettlement and chronic disease among foreign-born people in the United States	3
Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends at mid-to-older ages in Italy, 2004–19	3
Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death	3
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	3
Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines	3
Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death	3
Not the great equalizers: Covid-19, 1918–20 influenza, and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness	3
Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014	3
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries	3
Moving towards the centre or the exit? Migration in population studies and inPopulation Studies1996–2021	3
Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries	2
Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood	2
Quantifying self-rated age	2
Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India	2
Has demography witnessed a data revolution? Promises and pitfalls of a changing data ecosystem	2
The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts	2
The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate	2
Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects	2

Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types	2
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	2
Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records	2
Reassessing general explanations for long-run change in internal migration: Insights from Norway	2