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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pregnancy reporting and biases in under-five mortality in three African HDSSs	24
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	19
Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50	16
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	15
The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico	15
Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy	13
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation	12
Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India	12
Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data	12
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	10
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia	10
Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers	9
The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe	9
Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway	9
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	9
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations	9
Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction	9
Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden	9
The risk of being Giovanni or Maria: Naming practices and child mortality during the demographic transition	8
No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany	8
Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries	8
A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality	7
Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19	7
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	7
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe	7

Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research	6
Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe	6
Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018	6
Shifting the reproductive window: The contribution of ART and egg donation to fertility rates in the UK	6
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II	5
The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system	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
Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants	5
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant	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
Home-based work and childbearing	5
Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education	5
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation	5
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues?	5
Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey	5
Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden	5
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain	5
Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning	4
Social parenting and childlessness in Norway: Associations by sex and economic uncertainty	4
Cohort fertility differences between men and women in a developed population: Evidence from Spain	4
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss	4
Unemployment, return migration, and immigrant mortality: The case of the Great Recession in Spain	4
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood	4
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
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries	3
Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death	3
Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults	3
Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains	3
Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014	3
Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy	3
Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries	2
A review and evaluation of internal migration forecasting models	2
Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood	2
The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate	2
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	2
Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types	2
Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines	2
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	2
Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death	2
The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts	2
The role of deaths following childbirth in sex differences in mortality	2
Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records	2