OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Public Health is 44. 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
Vaccine hesitancy in the era of COVID-19	707
Poverty, inequality and COVID-19: the forgotten vulnerable	553
Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	425
Socio-economic status and COVID-19–related cases and fatalities	285
How to improve adherence with quarantine: rapid review of the evidence	245
Factors associated with adherence to self-isolation and lockdown measures in the UK: a cross-sectional survey	158
Rapid point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a community screening setting shows low sensitivity	152
Non-COVID-19 visits to emergency departments during the pandemic: the impact of fear	147
The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows	140
Negative impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health service access and follow-up adherence for immigrants and individuals in socio-economic difficulties	108
Attitudes and opinions on quarantine and support for a contact-tracing application in France during the COVID-19 outbreak	92
Psychological impact of infectious disease outbreaks on pregnant women: rapid evidence review	89
Human mobility and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a negative binomial regression analysis	84
Workplace violence in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	82
Assessing changes in US public trust in science amid the COVID-19 pandemic	81
ANTi-Vax: a novel Twitter dataset for COVID-19 vaccine misinformation detection	80
Readability of online patient education material for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a cross-sectional health literacy study	72
The enigma of health literacy and COVID-19 pandemic	70
Sharp increase in depression and anxiety among Brazilian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the PAMPA cohort	70
Correlates of children's physical activity during the COVID-19 confinement in Portugal	69
Health risk perceptions in the era of the new coronavirus: are the Italian people ready for a novel virus? A cross-sectional study on perceived personal and comparative susceptibility for infectious d	68
Public perceptions, anxiety and the perceived efficacy of health-protective behaviours to mitigate the spread of the SARS-Cov-2/ COVID-19 pandemic	67
The real-life impact of vaccination on COVID-19 mortality in Europe and Israel	67
The changing epidemiology of gambling disorder and gambling-related harm: public health implications	64
Social distancing as a public good under the COVID-19 pandemic	61

Moving on from responsible gambling: a new discourse is needed to prevent and minimise harm from gambling	58
Not all worries were created equal: the case of COVID-19 anxiety	57
Technostress: how does it affect the productivity and life of an individual? Results of an observational study	56
Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination intentions and attitudes in France	55
Sociodemographic predictors of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: a nationwide US-based survey study	54
On the normalisation of online sports gambling among young adult men in the UK: a public health perspective	53
Socio-economic inequalities and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Brazilian children: a nationwide register-based study	52
COVID-19: Immense necessity and challenges in meeting the needs of minorities, especially asylum seekers and undocumented migrants	51
COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Tyrol, Austria: sports and exercise behaviour in change?	50
Indoor air quality and COVID-19	49
Political partisanship and mobility restriction during the COVID-19 pandemic	49
Cervical cancer screening uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	48
Test, test, test for COVID-19 antibodies: the importance of sensitivity, specificity and predictive powers	48
An analysis of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and fear mongering on Twitter	48
Sociodemographic factors associated with COVID-19 in-hospital mortality in Brazil	47
COVID-19 and healthcare systems: What should we do next?	46
Examining the effect of social distancing on the compound growth rate of COVID-19 at the county level (United States) using statistical analyses and a random forest machine learning model	46
Effect of front-of-package nutrition labeling on food purchases: a systematic review	45
Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: a multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution	45