OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ageing & Society is 4. 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
ASO volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	50
ASO volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	45
‘Listen closer’: home-delivered meal volunteers’ understanding of their role in suicide intervention	43
Gender and social class dynamics in intergenerational financial transfers among older adults: national trends over two decades in Sweden	39
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life	30
Configuring possibilities: day programmes for people living with dementia as technologies in practice	20
Friendships, loneliness and psychological wellbeing in older adults: a limit to the benefit of the number of friends	20
Ageing-in-place care preferences of persons living with dementia and informal care-givers with a migration background: a qualitative interview study	19
ASO volume 43 issue 10 Cover and Back matter	18
Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China Longtao He, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), Singapore, 2021, 275 pp., hbk £97.50, ISBN 13: 978-981-16-1879-6	18
Older adults’ mental health information preferences: a call for more balanced information to empower older adults’ mental health help-seeking	17
Psychological distress in sons as resident carers of older mothers in Japan	17
Stigma and its implications for dementia in South Africa: a multi-stakeholder exploratory study	17
Activity limitations and participation restrictions among people with non-communicable diseases in Ghana	16
Intrinsic post-retirement work motivation in formal Chilean workers at retirement age: a qualitative study	16
Modelling the communication challenges of care workers from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds	16
Foregrounding the ageing self: a duoethnographic account of growing older as a gerontologist and educator	16
Widowhood and functional impairment: gender-specific trajectories of sensory and masticatory functions	15
Older people's lived experience and the World Health Organization age-friendly policy framework: a critical examination of an age-friendly county programme in Ireland	15
A gradual separation from the world: a qualitative exploration of existential loneliness in old age	15
The role of uncertainty in planning for self-funded social care for older people with a diagnosis of dementia	15
Masculinity, poverty and body image among older men in Tanzania: connecting intersectionality and Bourdieu's theory of practice	14
Culturally safe interventions for Indigenous people living with dementia: an empty scoping review and urgent call to action	14
A scoping review exploring the ‘grey area’ of suicide-related expression in later life: Developing a conceptual framework for professional engagement	14
Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age: evidence from three British longitudinal studies	13

Older women’s constructions of equality over the lifecourse	13
ASO volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
ASO volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	12
Gardens, agency and citizenship of people with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis	12
Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribucă (eds), Routledge, New York, 2022, 196 pp., pbk £38.99, ISBN 13: 9780367495954	12
Doing and feeling together in older age: self-worth and belonging through social creative activities	11
Educational gradients in older adults' personal network size, diversity and social support: a widening gap between haves and have nots across birth cohorts?	11
The lasting impact of war experiences on quality of life in long-lived retirement homes residents: The birth cohort 1906–1928	11
‘Losing the illusion of control and predictability of life’: experiences of grief and loss among ageing US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Shifting perspectives: outlooks on ageing in place in the COVID-19 era	11
ASO volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
Ageing and familial support: a three-generation portrait from urban China	10
ASO volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
‘Self-reliance first, children's care-giving second’: older adults' experience and conceptualisation of ageing-in-place in rural China	10
Health and occupation: the limits to older adults' work hours	10
Experiences of influencing one's own life when living with working-age dementia	9
Care-giving burden and life satisfaction among family care-givers of disabled older adults in China: the moderator role of care-giver wisdom	9
Own health, spousal health and transitions in loneliness among middle-aged and older adults in China	9
A social practice theory approach to exploring the ubiquity of quizzes in dementia care settings	9
Childlessness and social and emotional loneliness in middle and later life	9
How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany	9
Tragedy and value of life of older persons in long-term care homes during COVID-19: a critical discourse analysis	9
Ageism: the importance of the linguistic concept for the construction of the experience	9
ASO volume 42 issue 11 Cover and Front matter	9
Benefits of volunteerism for middle-aged and older adults: comparisons between types of volunteering activities	9
‘…it's hard to prepare yourself, it's like a death’: barriers and facilitators to older people discussing and planning for driving retirement	9
ASO volume 44 issue 12 Cover and Back matter	9
‘Only my family can help’: the lived experience and care aesthetics of being resident on an NHS psychiatric/mental health inpatient dementia assessment ward – a single case study	9
Socioeconomic inequality of long-term care for older people with and without dementia in England	8
ASO volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	8
Stressful life events and subjectively rated sleep quality among older adults in China: the roles of positive and negative attitudes towards ageing	8
Economic inequality in later life and imagination of the future	8
Values and the experience of family care-giving: cultural values or shared family values?	8
Finding a balance: resilience in older adults after depression in later life	8
Social participation, attitudes towards ageing and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults	8
Playful framings of social robots in dementia care: reconsidering the principle of transparency in interactions with robot animals	8
What it means to be poor: dimensions of economic hardship among older people living in poverty across Europe	7
The deprived or the devil? A content analysis of the media representation of older adults under COVID-19 in Hong Kong	7
The retirement impact on housing cost burden: are homeowners better off than tenants after retirement?	7
ASO volume 42 issue 10 Cover and Back matter	7
Adjusting to dementia as part of life: an actantial analysis of agency reconstruction following diagnosis of young onset dementia	7
The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz (eds), University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 2020, 205 pp., pbk US $35.00, ISBN 13: 978-0-268-1080	7
Unaging. The Four Factors That Impact How You Age Robert P. Friedland, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, 344 pp., pbk £14.99, ISBN 13: 978-1-00-908774-2	7
Referees for volume 41, 2021	7
Psychosocial predictors of young male workers’ discrimination against older workers in Japan: comparison of four models	7
ASO volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Religious involvement and subjective wellbeing among older adults in Taiwan: exploring gender and age differences	7
Older and still voting? A mixed-methods study of voting amongst the older old in Europe and in the North-West of England	6
ASO volume 42 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	6
Aging in a Changing World: Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism, Molly George, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2022, 192 pp., pbk $32.95, ISBN 13: 9781978809406	6

ASO volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
ASO volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Caring for people with dementia in their own homes: homecare workers' experiences of tolerating and mitigating risk	6
ASO volume 43 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	6
ASO volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
What works in co-producing assistive technology solutions with older people: a scoping review of the evidence	6
ASO volume 42 issue 12 Cover and Front matter	6
ASO volume 42 issue 8 Cover and Back matter	6
Respite, renewal, retirement and tensions: Australian Men's Sheds and the impact on significant others	6
Historical and social forces in the Iridescent Life Course: key life events and experiences of transgender older adults	6
Generations: Does When You Are Born Shape Who You Are? Bobby Duffy, Atlantic Books, London, 2021, 336 pp., hbk £20, ISBN 13: 9781786499721	6
Why older rural women in Ireland want to work: it's not all about the money	6
A narrative inquiry into how oldest-old care-givers of people with dementia manage age-related care-giving challenges	6
ASO volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
Co-research with older people: a systematic literature review	6
ASO volume 43 issue 10 Cover and Front matter	5
‘Swallow medicine, eat rice, pray about health’: health, health care and health-seeking experiences of South-East Asian older refugees	5
Older people's family relationships in disequilibrium during the COVID-19 pandemic. What really matters?	5
The Aging of Aquarius: The Hippies of the 60s in their 60s and Beyond Galit Nimrod, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2023, 277 pp., hbk US $80, ISBN 13: 9781009304078	5
Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Debra A. Harley, Shanon Shah and Paul Simpson, Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2024, 244 pp., hbk £80.00, ISBN: 978-1447368410	5
ASO volume 44 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	5
Negative ageism and compassionate ageism in news coverage of older people under COVID-19: how did the pandemic progression and public health responses associate with different news themes?	5
Ageing with spinal cord injury: a longitudinal study	5
Ageing in place with non-medical home support services need not translate into dependence	5
Revisiting Cowgill's modernisation theory: perceived social status of older adults across 58 countries	5
‘They've probably had those animals for years – they are like family’: accommodating pets in care homes and their contribution to creating a sense of ‘home’	5
ASO volume 44 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	5
Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers	5
Ageing successfully with a physical disability: the views and experiences of people ageing with spinal cord injury or post-polio syndrome	5
How to understand diversity in citizens’ care attitudes: an exploratory study in the Netherlands	4
Negotiating the caring role and carer identity over time: ‘living well’ and the longitudinal narratives of family members of people with dementia from the IDEAL cohort	4
Constructing ‘Otherness’ in the neighbourhood: que(e)rying older adults’ experiences of and talk about socio-cultural change	4
Building social capital through sport engagement: evidence for adults aged 50 years and older	4
ASO volume 44 issue 10 Cover and Front matter	4
ASO volume 41 issue 12 Cover and Front matter	4
Something old, something blue: bereavement and institutional ageism in The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil	4
‘Why would I want sex now?’ A qualitative study on older women's affirmative narratives on sexual inactivity in later life	4
Evidence for the external validity of the Consumer Choice Index Six Dimension (CCI-6D) for people living in residential aged care with dementia	4
Lifestyle differentiation among older adults: exploring the links between individuals’ behaviours, socio-demographic characteristics, health and wellbeing in later life	4
ASO volume 43 issue 12 Cover and Back matter	4
Multi-dimensional civic engagement of older Europeans: a latent class analysis	4
ASO volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Social Divisions & Later Life Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs, Policy Press, Cheltenham, UK, 2020, 000 pp., pbk £00, ISBN 13: 978 1 4473 3860 4	4
Referees for volume 42, 2022	4
Social exclusion and health outcomes among empty nest and non-empty nest older people in China	4
A salutogenesis approach to ageing with impairment: the managing and coping experiences of older people ageing with deafblindness	4
How is a Man Supposed to Be a Man? Male Childlessness – A Life Disrupted Robin A. Hadley, Berghahn Books, New York, 2021, 394 pp., hbk £107, ISBN 13: 978-1-80073-187-5	4
What socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors shape older people's experiences of death and dying in residential aged care? A scoping review	4
Intergenerational relationships and trajectories of older parents’ cognitive functioning in multi-child families	4
Who receives most? Gendered consequences of divorce on public pension income in West Germany and Sweden	4
Transportation usage and perceptions among older adults in Mexico City: a qualitative study	4
Promoting Healthy and Active Aging: A Multidisciplinary Approach Telmo Pereira, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2022, 166 pp., hbk £44.99, ISBN 13: 978-1-032-05727-9	4
The Future of Social Care: From Problem to Rights-Based Sustainable Solution Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Glos., 2023, 203 pp., hbk £76.15, ISBN: 978 1 80392 30	4