OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demography is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
National Population Growth Rate, Its Components, and Subnational Contributions: A Research Note	98
Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California	52
Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children	41
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time	37
The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools	30
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black–White Differences in Outcomes and Effects	30
State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note	30
Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death	30
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being	29
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note	26
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015	25
Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood	24
Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women	23
Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988–2019: Differences by Education, Family Structure, and Race and Ethnicity	23
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis	22
Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China	22
The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition	22
Editorial Note Regarding Begum et al. (2018), Hammar et al. (2025), and Begum et al. (2025)	22
Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility	21
Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries	20
Is the Effect Larger in Group A or B? It Depends: Understanding Results From Nonlinear Probability Models	19
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China	19
Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States	19
Life Expectancy and Health Expectancy in the Twenty-first Century: The Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, and the Unknowable	17

Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data	17
Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-19	17
The Growth and Diversity of Older Undocumented Immigrants in the United States	17
Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation	17
Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility?	16
Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland	16
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities	15
Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation	14
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden, 1920–2015	14
Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth	14
Long-Term Effects of Local-Area New Deal Work Relief in Childhood on Educational, Economic, and Health Outcomes Over the Life Course: Evidence From the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study	14
Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note	14
Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi	14
Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War	14
Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance	14
Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination	14
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis	14
Does Early Childhood BCG Vaccination Improve Survival to Midlife in a Population With a Low Tuberculosis Prevalence? Quasi-experimental Evidence on Nonspecific Effects From 32 Swedish Birth Cohorts	14
The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century	13
A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean	13
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life	13
Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population	13
A Research Note on Trends in the Stock and Flow of Child Support Agreements	13
The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom	12
Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality	12
Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016	12
A Research Note on Maternity Leave and Children's Outcomes: The Case of Parental Teachers	12
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States	11
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland	11
Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data	11
The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century	11
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–2021	11
Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration	10
Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums	10
Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?	10
Continuity and Change in U.S. Children's Family Composition, 1968–2017	10
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections	10
Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan	10
The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty	10
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)	10
Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status	10
Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–1989	10
If Residential Segregation Persists, What Explains Widespread Increases in Residential Diversity?	10
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-19	10
U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation	9
Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing	9
New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note	9
The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad	9
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty	9
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage	9

Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data	9
Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–2016	9
Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note	8
Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Infant Health	8
The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?	8
Single Parenthood, Gender, and Mortality	8
Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration	8
Birth Spacing and Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Life Course: Evidence From the Utah Population Database	8
Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research	8
Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting, and Subjective Health Among Chinese Adults	8
A Note From the New Editors of Demography	8
Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France	8
The Rise of Sonless Families in Asia and North Africa	8
Religiosity and Young Unmarried Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women	8
Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies? A Multigroup Perspective on Union Formation and Religious Boundaries in the Netherlands	8
Relating Period and Cohort Fertility	8
Increasing Educational Inequality in Biological Aging Among U.S. Adults Aged 50–79 From 1988–1994 to 2015–2018	8
Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States	8
Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note	8