OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demography is 7. 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
National Population Growth Rate, Its Components, and Subnational Contributions: A Research Note	42
Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children	37
State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note	33
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time	32
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being	31
Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death	31
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic	29
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black–White Differences in Outcomes and Effects	28
The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools	27
Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California	27
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note	26
Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015	26
Beyond Lifelong Marriage and Spousal Coresidence: A Research Note on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Late-Life Family and Living Arrangements	25
Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood	24
Antibiotic Pollution and Infant Mortality in India: A Research Note	22
A Research Note on Loneliness as a Driver of International Migration: Prospective Evidence From the Netherlands	21
The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition	20
Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women	20
Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States	19
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis	19
Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries	18
Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988–2019: Differences by Education, Family Structure, and Race and Ethnicity	18
Editorial Note Regarding Begum et al. (2018), Hammar et al. (2025), and Begum et al. (2025)	17
Is the Effect Larger in Group A or B? It Depends: Understanding Results From Nonlinear Probability Models	17
Life Expectancy and Health Expectancy in the Twenty-first Century: The Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, and the Unknowable	16

Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation	16
The Growth and Diversity of Older Undocumented Immigrants in the United States	16
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China	16
Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-19	16
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities	15
Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland	15
Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War	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
Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth	13
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	13
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis	13
Bringing Age Back In: Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration	13
Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi	13
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–1863	13
Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation	13
A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean	12
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden, 1920–2015	12
Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population	12
Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination	12
A Research Note on Trends in the Stock and Flow of Child Support Agreements	12
Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note	12
The Social Context of Spatial Choice: Activity Locations and Residential Segregation	11
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life	11
Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration	11
Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016	11
The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century	11
The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom	11
Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data	11
More Education and Fewer Children? The Contribution of Educational Enrollment and Attainment to the Fertility Decline in Norway	11
A Research Note on Maternity Leave and Children's Outcomes: The Case of Parental Teachers	11
Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status	11
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States	11
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
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–2021	10
Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality	10
Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data	10
The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century	10
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland	10
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-19	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	9
The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad	9
If Residential Segregation Persists, What Explains Widespread Increases in Residential Diversity?	9
Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–2016	9
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)	9
Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Behavior in Rural Malawi	9
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty	9
Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing	9
The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty	9

Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–1989	9
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage	9
Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting, and Subjective Health Among Chinese Adults	9
The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?	8
Net Worth Poverty in Childhood: Duration, Timing, and Educational Outcomes	8
New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note	8
Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Infant Health	8
U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation	8
Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research	8
Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies? A Multigroup Perspective on Union Formation and Religious Boundaries in the Netherlands	8
Beyond Income: Health, Wealth, and Racial Welfare Gaps Among Older Americans	8
A Note From the New Editors of Demography	7
Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note	7
Can Incorporating Parity Information Improve the Reliability of Completed Cohort Fertility Projections? Insights From a Bayesian Generalized Additive Model Approach	7
Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States	7
Family Norms and Declining First-Marriage Rates: The Role of Sibship Position in the Japanese Marriage Market	7
Increasing Educational Inequality in Biological Aging Among U.S. Adults Aged 50–79 From 1988–1994 to 2015–2018	7
Modeling and Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy With Compositional Data Analysis	7
Gender Inequality Reinforced: The Impact of a Child's Health Shock on Parents' Labor Market Trajectories	7
Maternal Age, Early Childhood Temperament, and Youth Outcomes	7
The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods	7
Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France	7
Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration	7
Single Parenthood, Gender, and Mortality	7
Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries	7
Causal Effects of Education on Marriage and Fertility in Japan: A Research Note on a Quasi-Experimental Approach Utilizing Zodiac Superstition as an Exogenous Shock	7
Income Sources Across Childhood in Families With Nonresident Fathers	7
Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note	7