OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	173
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	97
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	60
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	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	46
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	46
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological 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	41
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	41
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	40
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	40
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	36
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	35
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	34
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	33
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	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	32
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand	31
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	31
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	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	29

Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	29
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	28
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	26
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary	26
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	25
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machines regulations on harmful gambling behaviour	25
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study	23
Dietary patterns and birth outcomes in the ELSPAC pregnancy cohort	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
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	23
When the farm whispers, the world must listen	21
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study	20
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?	20
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact	19
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage	19
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT\|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions	19
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study	19
Mental health and behavioural factors involved in road traffic crashes by young adults: analysis of the Raine Study	18
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis	18
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula	17
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination	17
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers	17
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study	17
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study	16
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study	15
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study	15
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey	15
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster	14
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada	14
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health	14
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis	14
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation	13
Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health?	13
Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits	13
Associations between age of menarche and genetic variation in women of African descent: genome-wide association study and polygenic score analysis	13
Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study	13
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis	12
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 2044	12
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM_2.5exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri	12
Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK: 3 year follow-up outcomes of a natural experiment	11
Framework for understanding health inequalities over the life course: the embodiment dynamic and biological mechanisms of exogenous and endogenous origin	11
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme	11
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?	11
Association between sex work occupational stigma and inconsistent condom use: findings from a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2022)	11
Marked and widening socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes prevalence in Scotland	11
Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position	11
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke	11
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women	11
Natural history of mental health competence from childhood to adolescence	11
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors	11

Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population	10
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?	10
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway	10
Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: longitudinal evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006–2021)	10
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study	10
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study	10
Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France	10
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level	10
Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden	10
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country	10
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Invited commentary on “Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey”	9
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study	9
Intersectorality and health: a glossary	9
Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life: a full population register-based study	9
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhanget al	9
Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach	9
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	9
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort	9
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)	8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study	8
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk	8
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England: a linked administrative data cohort study	8
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities	8
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries	8
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?	8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults	8
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence	8
Correction: Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales	8
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition	8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data	8
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society	8
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing	8
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children	8
Housing and health: an updated glossary	8
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 2021	7
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions	7
Perceived discrimination at work: examining social, health and work-related factors as determinants among breast cancer survivors – evidence from the prospective CANTO cohort	7
Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data	7
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis	7
Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort	7
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks	7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–1997	7
Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study	7
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study	7
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel	7
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data	7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis	7
Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	7
Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach	7
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health	7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank	7
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	6
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys	6
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales	6
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study	6
Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records	6
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data	6
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study	6
School performance and educational achievement in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero	6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage study	6
Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19	6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy	6
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study	6
Trajectories of phenotypical frailty over a decade in young–old community-dwelling adults: results from the Lc65+ study	6
Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini	6
Response to: 'Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis' by Hossainet al	6
The case for planetary health prevention	6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study	6
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA	6
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities	6
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults	6
Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: consequences for sleep problems	6