OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 28. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	169
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	96
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	58
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	58
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	55
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	52
Conceptual lessons for containing an epidemic of questionable COVID-19 counterfactual comparisons	47
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	45
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	45
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	44
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	44
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	41
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	40
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	39
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	39
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	35
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	34
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	32
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	32
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	31
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	31
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	31
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	30
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	30
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	29

Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	29
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary	28
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	28