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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
All-time low period fertility in Finland: Demographic drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications	25
Children of the (gender) revolution: A theoretical and empirical synthesis of how gendered division of labour influences fertility	23
The relative importance of women’s education on fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel analysis	20
What’s so troubling about ‘voluntary’ family planning anyway? A feminist perspective	18
Living longer but not necessarily healthier: The joint progress of health and mortality in the working-age population of England	18
Trust and fertility in uncertain times	18
Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece	17
Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy	16
Not the great equalizers: Covid-19, 1918–20 influenza, and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness	16
Demographic perspectives in research on global environmental change	16
Parity disparity: Educational differences in Nordic fertility across parities and number of reproductive partners	14
Social class and fertility: A long-run analysis of Southern Sweden, 1922–2015	13
The effects of growing-season drought on young women’s life course transitions in a sub-Saharan context	13
The illusion of stable fertility preferences	13
Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics	12
Unequally ageing regions of Europe: Exploring the role of urbanization	12
Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact?	11
Employment uncertainty and fertility intentions: Stability or resilience?	11
Has demography witnessed a data revolution? Promises and pitfalls of a changing data ecosystem	11
When is fertility too low or too high? Population policy preferences of demographers around the world	9
On the estimation of female births missing due to prenatal sex selection	9
The gendered widowhood effect and social mortality gap	8
Family embeddedness and older adult mortality in the United States	8
Mental health benefits of cohabitation and marriage: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian register data	8
Children’s education and parental old-age health: Evidence from a population-based, nationally representative study in India	7

Migration for family and labour market outcomes in Sweden	7
Global and local correlations of Hajnal’s household formation markers in historical Europe: A cautionary tale	7
Multidimensional healthy life expectancy of the older population in China	7
The relationship between life-course accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women born 1940–70	7
The changing relationship between socio-economic background and family formation in four European countries	7
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality: A record linkage study in Niakhar (Senegal)	7
Height and health in late eighteenth-century England	6
Multi-morbidity and frailty at death: A new classification of death records for an ageing world	6
The politics of ageing and retirement: Evidence from Swiss referenda	6
Theory and explanation in demography: The case of low fertility in Europe	6
Partnership transitions among the children of immigrants in Norway: The role of partner choice	6
Contraceptive choice as risk reduction? The relevance of local violence for women’s uptake of sterilization in Colombia	6
Life expectancy inequalities in Hungary over 25 years: The role of avoidable deaths	5
Disentangling the effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth in India	5
Sex differences in child health and healthcare: A reappraisal for India	5
Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa: Does remarriage matter?	5
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification	5
The shifting rural–urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries	5
Demography’s theory and approach: (How) has the view from the margins changed?	5
Ethnicity, sex composition of living children, and unrealized fertility in Nigeria	4
Educational composition and parity contribution to completed cohort fertility change in low-fertility settings	4
Son preference and sex differentials in receipt of key dimensions of children’s healthcare: Evidence from Pakistan	4
Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations?	4
The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020–31: A scenario approach	4
Disability among children of immigrants from India and China: Is there excess disability among girls?	4
Estimation of older-adult mortality from information distorted by systematic age misreporting	4
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	4
Reproductive transitions and women’s status in Indian households	4
Interaction between childbearing and partnership trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in France: An application of multichannel sequence analysis	4
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	4
Revisiting mid-twentieth-century fertility shifts from a global perspective	3
Fortunes of Dragons: Cohort size effects on life outcomes	3
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	3
Population-level impact of adverse early life conditions on adult healthy life expectancy in low- and middle-income countries	3
Does women’s health matter for fertility? Evidence from Norwegian administrative data	3
The persistently high fertility of a North American population: A 25-year restudy of parity among the Ohio Amish	3
What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?	3
How genuine are sub-replacement ideal family sizes in urban China?	3
Foetal loss and feminine sex ratios at birth in sub-Saharan Africa	3
Measuring age differences among different-sex couples: Across religions and 130 countries, men are older than their female partners	3
Population Studies at 75 years: An empirical review	2
Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach	2
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	2
Growing up and moving out: Migration and the demographic transition in low- and middle-income nations	2
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	2
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	2
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	2
Demographic models of the reproductive process: Past, interlude, and future	2
Labour market incorporation of immigrant women in South Africa: Impacts of human capital and family structure	2
Evaluating the impact of housing market liberalization on the timing of marriage: Evidence from Egypt	2

Internet access and partnership formation in the United States	2
Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach	2
Why a long-term perspective is beneficial for demographers	2