OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 23. 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
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	77
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	64
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	55
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	53
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	52
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	49
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	48
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	47
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	46
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	43
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	41
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	38
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	37
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	36
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	34
Does race have confounders?	33
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	32
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	31
Economic connectedness and fetal and infant death: a population-based cross-sectional study of California	30
Commentary on: ‘ Mortality by income in the elderly population in Italy: new evidence from an innovative micro-data integration ’	30
Household cooking fuel and cognitive function trajectories among middle-aged and older adults: evidence from a longitudinal study	28
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	27
High long-term mortality in ischaemic heart disease accentuated among ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe: findings from a prospective all-comers percutaneous coronary intervention registry in Romania	23
Impact of offspring and their educational level on readmission and death among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a nationwide cohort study using multistate survival models	23
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	23

Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond