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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	69
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	61
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	56
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	55
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	50
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	49
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	45
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	44
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	43
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	42
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	39
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	39
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	38
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	37
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	36
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	33
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	33
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study	32
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	32
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	29
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	29
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	26
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	25
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	25
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary	24

Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	24
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	22
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	22
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	22
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machine regulations on harmful gambling behaviour	21
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	21
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand	21
Mediating role of psychological distress and alcohol use in socioeconomic disparities in deaths of despair: a causal mediation analysis using record linkage data	20
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination	19
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	19
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?	18
Dietary patterns and birth outcomes in the ELSPAC pregnancy cohort	18
Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better	18
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study	17
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage	16
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact	16
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study	16
When the farm whispers, the world must listen	15
Impact of India’s nationwide supplementary nutrition programme for pregnant women on birth weight of their newborns: a quasi-experimental evaluation	15
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula	14
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study	13
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers	13
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis	13
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study	13
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study	13
Mental health and behavioural factors involved in road traffic crashes by young adults: analysis of the Raine Study	12
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT\|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions	12
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada	12
Survival among patients with cancer after a coalmine fire: analysis of registry data in regional Victoria, Australia	12
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey	12
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster	12
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study	12
Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study	12
Impact of social participation on frailty among older adults: a multinational cohort study from the USA, England, China and Mexico	12
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM_2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri	11
Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health?	11
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 2044	11
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation	11
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis	11
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	11
Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits	11
Does lifestyle explain the relationship between socioeconomic position and multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases? A mediation analysis applied to the European Prospective Investigation	10
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke	10
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women	10
Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population	10
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors	10
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway	10
Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden	10
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme	10
Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France	10

Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study	9
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)	9
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: longitudinal evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006–2021)	9
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?	9
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhang et al	9
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study	9
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?	9
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	9
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence	8
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?	8
Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country	8
Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life: a full population register-based study	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
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing	8
Stimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and risk of first and repeat juvenile criminal offending: a population-based cohort study	8
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study	8
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level	8
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort	8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data	8
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	8
Housing and health: an updated glossary	8
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”	8
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data	8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study	8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults	7
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition	7
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 2021	7
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study	7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank	7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis	7
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society	7
Correction: Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales	7
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)	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
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks	7
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health	7
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries	7
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk	7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–1997	7
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children	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
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions	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
oriGen cohort: a Mexican population-based epidemiological and genomic research platform	7
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults	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
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study	6
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities	6
Gender-related factors and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence in women and men: analysis of a population-based cohort study in the Netherlands	6
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales	6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage study	6
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study	6
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel	6
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis	6
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA	6
The case for planetary health prevention	6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy	6
Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?	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 Hossain et al	6
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data	6
Gender-specific aspects of socialisation and risk of cardiovascular disease among community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study using machine learning algorithms and a conventional metho	6
School performance and educational achievement in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero	6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study	6
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	6