OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 25. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	74
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	61
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	59
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	56
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	51
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	50
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	47
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	45
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	44
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors among workers: results from the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health study	43
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	40
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	40
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	40
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	39
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	38
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	34
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	33
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	32
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	29
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	29
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	26
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	26
Multimorbidity as assessed by reporting of multiple causes of death: variations by period, sociodemographic characteristics and place of death among older decedents in England and Wales, 2001–2017	26
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	25
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	25