OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Studies-A Journal of Demography is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?	32
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	32
The illusion of stable fertility preferences	31
The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico	24
Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50	21
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data	21
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	20
Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy	17
Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India	17
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	14
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation	13
Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data	12
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia	11
Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway	10
Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers	10
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	9
Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden	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	8
Demographic models of the reproductive process: Past, interlude, and future	8
Estimation of older-adult mortality from information distorted by systematic age misreporting	7
The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe	7
Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries	6
Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19	6
Contraceptive choice as risk reduction? The relevance of local violence for women’s uptake of sterilization in Colombia	6

No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany	6
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe	6
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	6
A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality	6
Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy	5
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues?	5
Home-based work and childbearing	5
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research	5
The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system	5
Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe	5
Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018	5
Population Studies at 75 years: An empirical review	4
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification	4
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant	4
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation	4
Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations?	4
Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey	4
Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil	4
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II	3
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss	3
Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education	3
Son preference and sex differentials in receipt of key dimensions of children’s healthcare: Evidence from Pakistan	3
Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences	3
Population-level impact of adverse early life conditions on adult healthy life expectancy in low- and middle-income countries	3
Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden	3
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain	3
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood	3
Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning	3
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	2
Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends at mid-to-older ages in Italy, 2004–19	2
Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014	2
Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death	2
Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries	2
Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood	2
Experiences of victimization before resettlement and chronic disease among foreign-born people in the United States	2
Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death	2
Moving towards the centre or the exit? Migration in population studies and inPopulation Studies1996–2021	2
Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines	2
Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types	2
Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics	2
Not the great equalizers: Covid-19, 1918–20 influenza, and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness	2
The shifting rural–urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries	2
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries	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	1
Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach	1
How genuine are sub-replacement ideal family sizes in urban China?	1
Thanks to the 2023 and 2024 Reviewers	1
Childbearing across partnerships in Italy: Prevalence, demographic correlates, and social gradient	1

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece	1
Has demography witnessed a data revolution? Promises and pitfalls of a changing data ecosystem	1
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a rural population in Senegal	1
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	1
Demography’s theory and approach: (How) has the view from the margins changed?	1
Looking to the future of Population Studies	1
75 years of Population Studies: A diamond anniversary special issue	1
The recent decline in period fertility in England and Wales: Differences associated with family background and intergenerational educational mobility	1
Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India	1
Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records	1
Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 Cohort	1
Mental health benefits of cohabitation and marriage: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian register data	1
Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe	1
Are the birthdates of our ancestors real? Date of birth misregistration in twentieth-century Poland	1
Quantifying self-rated age	1
Employment uncertainty and fertility intentions: Stability or resilience?	1
Reassessing general explanations for long-run change in internal migration: Insights from Norway	1