OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Aging & Human Development 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Women, Younger Adults, and Singles Were Most Likely to Report Loneliness During the Pandemic: Evidence From a 15-Month National Longitudinal Survey	49
Do Internalized Age Stereotypes Mediate the Relationship Between Volunteering and Self-Efficacy for Adults 50+ Years of Age?	33
On the Measurement of Aging Anxiety: Comparative Validity of Two Popular Measures Among Older Adults	18
Reciprocal Effects of Marital Idealization and Marital Satisfaction Between Long-Wed Spouses Over Time	18
Lessons Learned in Implementing an Aging Research Training Program for Underrepresented Minority Students	18
Social and Emotional Loneliness: Their Relationship to Multiple Domains of Cognition in Later Life	14
Association of Sleep and Physical Activity Among Older Adults and the Moderation of Chronotype	12
How Do Social Relationships Affect Later Life Planning?	12
Impact of Social Support on Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among Gender Minority Adults	11
Relationships Between Self-Reported Pain and Optimism Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults	11
Situations of Vulnerability, Life Satisfaction, and Social Support of Older Women and Men: Results From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)	11
Social Capital Associates With Better Cognitive Health, Oral Health and Epigenetic Age Deceleration: Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	9
Age-friendly Environment and Aging in Place: Finding from Latent Profile Analysis	9
Advancing Diversity in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research and Clinical Care: Lessons Learned from Educational and Career Trajectories of Recent Mentorship Program Graduates	9
Household Environments and Cognitive Decline Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: Exploring Gender, Age, and Residential Variations	9
Roles of Loneliness, Stress, and Religiosity in Suicide Ideation Among Nigerian Older Adults	9
Understanding Grandparent Caregiving in Korean and U.S. Culture: An Analysis Using Role Theory	8
Moving Beyond Depression: Mood Symptoms Across the Spectrum Relate to Tau Pathology in Older Women at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease	8
Health Disparities in Appalachian and Other Rural Communities	8
Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Interpersonal Problems: A Study of Personality Pathology in Depressed Older Inpatients	8
Positive Emotions, Hope, and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Older Adults: An Application of Broaden-and-Build Model	8
Examining the Impact of Far-Infrared Technology on Quality of Life in Older Adults	8
A Life Course, Intergenerational Perspective on Loneliness	8
Having Plans for the Future in Very Old People	7
Intersectional Discrimination Attributions and Health Outcomes Among American Older Adults: A Latent Class Analysis	7

Health Disparities Among Older Adults: An Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Assisted Relaxation Therapy for Insomnia in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study	7
Formal and Informal Volunteering Among Older Adults: Associations With Health Across Sexual Orientations	7
Affective Aspects of Religiousness and 6-Year Course of Depressive Symptoms in Aged Dutch Citizens	7
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress and Subjective Well-Being Across Age: The Mediating Role of Social Resources	6
The DAS-6: A Short Form of the Dementia Attitudes Scale	6
For Aging Research and Equity: Lessons Learned in Undergraduate Research Education	6
Respect Your Elders: Generativity and Life Satisfaction in Caregiving Grandparents	6
Evaluating the Importance of Mentoring in Undergraduate Research Education Programs	6
Communicative and Methodological Challenges Related to Collecting Data with Older Adults with Dementia in Senior Living Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Continuity in Socialization Styles: Typologies of Socialization in the Different Life Stages of Older People	6
Factors Associated With Working Caregivers’ Well-Being: Comparisons Between Black and White Working Caregivers in the United States	6
Is the Health of Older Americans With a GED Equivalent to Their Peers With a High School Diploma?	6
Healthcare Hardship of Adult Children Taking Care of Aging Parents	6
Age, Individual Resources, and Perceived Expectations for Active Aging: General and Domain-Specific Effects	6
The Social Context of Partnered Older Adults’ Insomnia Symptoms	6
A Social-Ecological Approach to Understanding Activity Engagement Patterns Among Older Chinese Immigrants	6
Gender and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Widows and Widowers	5
Sleep Duration Polygenic Risk and Phenotype: Associations with Biomarkers of Accelerated Aging in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging	5
Racial Differences in Neighborhood Environmental Effects on Loneliness Among Older Adults	5
Grandchildren as Caregivers: Adding a New Layer to the Sandwich Generation	5
The Effects of Osteoarthritis on Depressive Symptomatology Among Older U.S. Military Veterans	5
Does Perceived Generativity Mediate the Association Between Optimism and Cognitive Function Over Time? Findings from Midlife in the United States Study	4
Social Contact, Social Participation, and Emotional Well-Being Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Giving and Receiving Social Support	4
The Design and Early Results of a Structured Longitudinal Training Program for Undergraduate Students to Increase Diversity in Aging-Research	4
Quality of Life and Related Outcomes Among Unpaid Caregivers of Older Adults With Visual Impairment	4
Aging Parents and the Ties That Bind: Intergenerational Relationship Quality Among Culturally Diverse Canadian Families	4
Injury Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Older Pickleball Players	4
Physical Health of Older Canadians: Do Intersections Between Immigrant and Refugee Status, Racialized Status, and Socioeconomic Position Matter?	4
Overcoming Barriers to Latino Participation in Alzheimer's Disease Research	4
Grandparenting: Impact on Physical Activity, Dietary Habits, and Quality of Life	4
Acculturation and Disparities in Telemedicine Readiness: A National Study	4
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults: A Structural Competency Approach	4
The Association Between Close Relationships and Happiness Among Older Adults	4
Lingering Effects of Loss? Widowhood and Substance Use in the LGB Population	4
Work Preferences, Control, and Independence among Midlife and Older Adults in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
The Mediating Effect of Caregiving Relationship Quality on the Association Between Caregiving Stressors and Mental Health Problems Among Older Spousal Caregivers	3
Religiosity and Social Support Predict Resilience in Older Adults After a Flood	3
Long-Term Impact of Grandchild Caregiving Trajectories on Depression in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese People: A Longitudinal Study	3
Older Adults Place Greater Importance Than Younger Adults on a Purposeful Retirement	3
The Influence of Instructional Constraints and Cognitive Control on the Positivity Bias and the Positivity Effect in Autobiographical Memory	3
Self-reported Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Custodial Grandmothers: Frequencies, Patterns, and Correlates	3
Theoretical Approaches to Communicative Practices in the Study of Intergenerational Communication and Aging	3
The Significance of Potential Volunteering in Late Adulthood: A Janus-Faced Perspective	3
Relationships Between Diverse Forms of Anxiety With Intrapersonal Functioning Among Older Adults	3
A Methodological Note: An Introduction to Autoregressive Models	3
Dyadic Associations Between Grandparent–Grandchild Familial Values and Successful Aging: Mediating Role of Quality of Life	3
Growth Mindset Predicts Cognitive Gains in an Older Adult Multi-Skill Learning Intervention	3
Validity and Reliability of Persian Version of the 12-Item Expectations Regarding Aging Survey	3
Intergenerational Caregiving Patterns and Cognitive Health among the Sandwich Generation Within Four-Generation Families	3

Why Not Lonely? A Longitudinal Study of Factors Related to Loneliness and Non-Loneliness in Different Age Groups Among People in the Second Part of Life	3
Managing One's Age in Age-Dissimilar Mentoring Relationships	2
The Role of Awareness of Age-Related Change in the Longitudinal Association between Pain and Physical Activity	2
Penalty Versus Premium: Social Disposition Differentiates Life Satisfaction Among Living-Alone Immigrant and Native-Born Older Adults—Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)	2
Attitudes About Aging and Beliefs About When you Have Been or Will be Your Best Self	2
Determinants of Hispanic and non-Hispanic Workers’ Intent to Work Past Age 65: An Analysis From the Life Course Perspective	2
A Differential Item Functioning Analysis of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders Across Younger and Older Age Groups	2
Big Five Personality Traits, Social Networks, and Depression Among Older Adults in Japan: A Multiple Mediation Analysis	2
The Role of Physical Vulnerability in the Association Between Social Activities and Cognitive Performance in Rural Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study	2
Family Environment, Loneliness, Hope, and Subjective Well-Being of Asian Older Adults	2
The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Cognitive Functioning Across Adulthood	2
Age Differences Among Different Sources of Stressor Related Negative Affect	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Advancing Diversity in Aging Research	2
Potential Harmful Behavior Toward Older Family Members: Applying a Double-ABCX Model to Examine Problematic Family Caregiving	2
Assessing Sleep Quality in Older Adults: A Comparison of Three Measurement Approaches	2
Age-Related Microaggressions: Their Frequency, Emotional Impact, and Relationship to Negative Affect	2
Can Time Heal Anything? Exposure to Traumatic Events, Autobiographical Memory, and the Quality of Life Among Older Adults: The Role of Time Perspective	2
Dementia Caregiving and Dialectical Tensions During the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Barriers and Opportunities to Support the Oral Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Review of Health Policy and Systems	2
Selective Optimization and Compensation, Skilled Golf Performance, and Age	2
Religiosity, Aging in the Homeland, and Growing Old in the Diaspora: A Longitudinal Study of Two Cohorts of Indian Older Adults	2
Factors Associated With Dietary Risks in Older Korean Americans	2
The Influence of Social Support, Help-Seeking Attitudes and Help-Seeking Intentions on Older Australians’ use of Mental Health Services for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms	2
Planning for Program Evaluation Improves Implementation and Assessment	1
Cross-sectional Associations of Self-Perceptions of Aging With Self-Efficacy, Depressive Symptoms, and Satisfaction With Life in Dementia Caregivers and Non-Caregivers	1
The Age-Related Positivity Effect and Emotion Regulation: Assessing Downstream Affective Outcomes	1
Who We Are and How We Talk About Volunteering: Older Adult Volunteers’ Perspective	1
Gender Disparities in Healthy Aging: A Cross-National Comparative Study in the United States and South Korea from 2006 to 2016	1
Gender Differences in Loneliness Over Time: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study of Men and Women in the Second Part of Life	1
Age Differences Among Within-Person Indicators of Stress and Depressive Affect	1
Corrigendum to “Social Capital Associates with Better Cognitive Health, Oral Health and Epigenetic Age Deceleration: Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.”	1
Caregiving and Self-Esteem in Mid and Later Life: Is There Variation by Age, Parental Status, and Gender?	1
Chinese Migrant Workers’ Financial Security in Old Age—A Cultural Shift From Reliance on Filial Piety to Public Pension	1
Perceived Age Discrimination has Different Effects on Japanese People's Wellbeing Based on Age Groups	1
Benefits of Intergenerational Contact: Ageism, Subjective Well-Being, and Psychosocial Developmental Strengths of Wisdom and Identity	1
#PositiveAging: A Content Analysis of Positive Aging TikTok Videos	1
Older Adults’ Understanding of COVID-19 and Successful Aging: An Application of CEMSA to Ghana and Uganda	1
Factors Associated With Preventive Dental Service Use in Older Korean-American Residents in Subsidized Senior Housing: Looking Beyond Dental Insurance	1
Recruitment Barriers and Potential Strategies for Inclusion of Older Asian Americans in Alzheimer's Disease Research	1
Risk Factors for Elder Mistreatment Among Older Korean Americans	1
Predictors of Future Walking Speed: A 12-Month Monitoring Program	1
Socioeconomic Determinants of Anticipated and Actual Caregiving for Older Adults in India	1
Disability Among Older Adults in South-Eastern Nigeria	1
Black–White Racial Disparities in Disabilities Among Older Americans Between 2008 and 2017: Improvements in Cognitive Disabilities but no Progress in Activities of Daily Living or Functional Limitatio	1
The Effect of Financial Strain on the Health Outcomes of Older Mexican-Origin Adults: Findings From the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (H-EPESE)	1
Cognitive Function Among Noncustodial Grandparents in China and the United States: A Cross-National Perspective	1
Long-Term Effects of a Real-World Multi-Skill Intervention on Older Adults’ Growth Mindset	1
Multiple Trajectories and Predictors of Self-Esteem Change in Later Life: A Latent Growth Mixture Modeling Approach	1
Mental Health of Employed Family Caregivers in Canada: A Gender-Based Analysis on the Role of Workplace Support	1
Ageism, Racism, Sexism, and Work With Older Healthcare Clients: Why an Intersectional Approach Is Needed in Practice, Policy, Education, and Research	1
Functional Disability Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: The Intersecting Roles of Ethnicity, Social Class, and Urban/Rural Residency	1
Care Workers’ Turnover Intentions Associated With Workplace Abuse: The Role of Work-Related Stress and Job Satisfaction	1
Fear of Incompetence in Family Caregivers and Dementia Care Transitions	1
The Mediating Effect of Social Participation Restriction on the Association Between Role Overload and Mental Health Among Caregivers of Older Adults with Dementia	1
Café Connections: Investigating Factors Motivating Older Adults to Seek or Avoid Intergenerational Contact	1
Thwarted Belonging and Perceived Burdensomeness During Middle and Older Adulthood: The Role of Generativity	1
Associations Between COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Socio-Spatial Factors in NYC Transit Workers 50 Years and Older	1
Item-Level Psychometrics of the Meaningful Activity Participation Assessment (MAPA) Scale	1
Burnout and Depression Among Sandwich Generation Caregivers: A Brief Report	1
Exploring Characteristics of Self-Defining Memories in Older Adults	1