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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	100
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	62
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	59
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
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	49
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	47
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	47
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	46
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	44
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	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
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	37
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	36
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	35
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	34
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	33
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	32
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand	32
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	31
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	31
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machine regulations on harmful gambling behaviour	29
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register 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	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

Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	25
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	25