OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavioral Medicine 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in the two largest economies in the world: a comparison between the United States and China	75
Addressing racial/ethnic inequities in vaccine hesitancy and uptake: lessons learned from the California alliance against COVID-19	43
Hesitant but vaccinated: assessing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among the recently vaccinated	40
The bidirectional relationship between sense of purpose in life and physical activity: a longitudinal study	39
Cognitive and Affective Risk Beliefs and their Association with Protective Health Behavior in Response to the Novel Health Threat of COVID-19	27
Understanding medical mistrust and HPV vaccine hesitancy among multiethnic parents in Los Angeles	26
Adaptive, behavioral intervention impact on weight gain, physical activity, energy intake, and motivational determinants: results of a feasibility trial in pregnant women with overweight/obesity	25
Worry and rumination in breast cancer patients: perseveration worsens self-rated health	25
Narratives from African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic/Latinx community members in Arizona to enhance COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination uptake	24
Effects of 6-month episodic future thinking training on delay discounting, weight loss and HbA1c changes in individuals with prediabetes	23
Misinformation and other elements in HPV vaccine tweets: an experimental comparison	23
COVID-19 vaccine uptake and attitudes towards mandates in a nationally representative U.S. sample	21
Non-fatal gun violence and community health behaviors: A neighborhood analysis in Philadelphia	19
Psychological Impact of Ambiguous Health Messages about COVID-19	18
Firearm purchasing during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in households with teens: a national study	17
Why some parents made firearms more accessible during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a national study	16
Perceptions and tolerance of uncertainty: relationship to trust in COVID-19 health information and vaccine hesitancy	16
Reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans: the effects of narratives, character’s self-persuasion, and trust in science	16
Exploring content of misinformation about HPV vaccine on twitter	16
Anticipatory racism stress, smoking and disease activity: the Black women’s experiences living with lupus (BeWELL) study	15
The roots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: evidence from Hungary	15
Beyond political affiliation: an examination of the relationships between social factors and perceptions of and responses to COVID-19	15
Social and structural determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among racial and ethnic groups	15
HPV and COVID-19 vaccines: Social media use, confidence, and intentions among parents living in different community types in the United States	15
Past-year discrimination and cigarette smoking among sexual minority women: investigating racial/ethnic and sexual identity differences	14

A feasibility trial of a digital mindfulness-based intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients with asthma	14
Sexual minorities are at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease from a younger age than heterosexuals	13
The relationship between sleep and opioids in chronic pain patients	13
Engaging Latino sexual minority men in PrEP and behavioral health care: multilevel barriers, facilitators, and potential implementation strategies	13
Psychosocial interventions to reduce eating pathology in bariatric surgery patients: a systematic review	13
Mindfulness-based stress reduction for breast cancer survivors (MBSR(BC)): evaluating mediators of psychological and physical outcomes in a large randomized controlled trial	13
Vaccinating across the aisle: using co-partisan source cues to encourage COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the ideological right	13
Relations between social comparisons and physical activity among women in midlife with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease: an ecological momentary assessment study	13
Connect through PLAY: a randomized-controlled trial in afterschool programs to increase adolescents’ physical activity	12
Relationships between daily stress responses in everyday life and nightly sleep	12
Pilot randomized controlled trial of eHealth cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia among Spanish-speaking breast cancer survivors	11
Medical avoidance among marginalized groups: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Broad perspectives in understanding vaccine hesitancy and vaccine confidence: an introduction to the special issue	11
Loneliness and multiple health domains: associations among emerging adults	11
Examining stigma, social support, and gender differences in unsuppressed HIV viral load among participants in HPTN 065	10
Day-to-day associations between sleep and physical activity: a set of person-specific analyses in adults with overweight and obesity	10
The influence of routine and leisure family activities on the ability of young Asian Americans to maintain a healthy lifestyle: findings from a nationwide survey	10
Depressive symptoms improve over 2 years of type 2 diabetes treatment via a digital continuous remote care intervention focused on carbohydrate restriction	10
HPV vaccine delay and refusal among unvaccinated Mexican American young adult women: a qualitative investigation of Mexican-born and US-born HPV vaccine decision narratives	10
Contextual influences on the within-person association between physical activity and affect in adolescents: an ecological momentary assessment study	10
The Effect of Science-Related Populism on Vaccination Attitudes and Decisions	10
Effects of an internet-delivered insomnia intervention for older adults: A secondary analysis on symptoms of depression and anxiety	9
Preparing patients according to their individual coping style improves patient experience of magnetic resonance imaging	9
Factors associated with latino sexual minority men’s likelihood and motivation for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine: a mixed-methods study	9
Latent class growth modelling for the evaluation of intervention outcomes: example from a physical activity intervention	9
Charity-based incentives motivate young adult cancer survivors to increase physical activity: a pilot randomized clinical trial	9
The role of childhood unpredictability in adult health	9
The association between psychological functioning and social support and social constraint after cancer diagnosis: a 30-day daily diary study	9
The influence of emotion regulation and family involvement on diabetes distress among adults with type 2 diabetes	8
Resilience and recovery from total knee arthroplasty (TKA): a pathway for optimizing patient outcomes	8
Factors associated with mothers’ hesitancy to receive a COVID-19 vaccine	8
Individual and joint associations of daily sleep and stress with daily well-being in hospital nurses: an ecological momentary assessment and actigraphy study	8
Gender differences in the relationship between social support and strain and mortality among a national sample of adults	8
Understanding the Factors Influencing Health Care Provider Recommendations about Adolescent Vaccines: A Proposed Framework	8
A theoretical model of college students’ sleep quality and health-related quality of life	8
Diabetes burnout among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes: a mixed methods investigation	8
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected general vaccination hesitancy? Findings from a national study	8
Sleep and neighborhood socioeconomic status: a micro longitudinal study of chronic low-back pain and pain-free individuals	8
Predicting college students’ COVID-19 vaccination behavior: an application of the extended parallel process model	8
A novel psychometric approach to assessing intersectional hiv stigma: the geometric intersectional stigma scales	8
Use of digital health technologies to examine subjective and objective sleep with next-day cognition and daily indicators of health in persons with and without HIV	8
The distinct longitudinal impact of pain catastrophizing on pain interference among youth living with sickle cell disease and chronic pain	8
Stable and momentary psychosocial correlates of everyday smoking: An application of Temporal Self-Regulation Theory	8
Binge size and loss of control as correlates of eating behavior and psychopathology among individuals with binge eating disorder and higher weight	8
Anxiety sensitivity, pain severity and co-use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes among adults with chronic pain	8
Changes in physical activity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with overweight and obesity: an interrupted time series analysis with historical controls	7
Web-based cognitive behavior therapy for chronic pain patients with aberrant drug-related behavior: How did it work and for whom?	7
Baseline depressive symptoms, personal control, and concern moderate the effects of preoperative psychological interventions: the randomized controlled PSY-HEART trial	7
Patient-caregiver dyads in pancreatic cancer: identification of patient and caregiver factors associated with caregiver well-being	7
Physical activity outcomes from a randomized trial of a theory- and technology-enhanced intervention for Latinas: the Seamos Activas II study	7

Associations of parenting factors and weight related outcomes in African American adolescents with overweight and obesity	7
Using Behavioral Science to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Cancer Survivors: Communication Strategies and Research Opportunities	7
Exploring pain experience and anxiety sensitivity among Latinx adults in a federally qualified health center	7
The mediating role of scientifical-medical satisfaction between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccine confidence: a two-waves structural equation model	6
Changes in family involvement occasioned by FAMS mobile health intervention mediate changes in glycemic control over 12 months	6
Forgoing antiretroviral therapy to evade stigma among people living with HIV, Cape Town, South Africa	6
Promoting HPV vaccination among Latinx: an application of the extended parallel processing model	6
Smoking among adult congenital heart disease survivors in the United States: Prevalence and relationship with illness perceptions	6
A comparison of total and domain-specific sedentary time in breast cancer survivors and age-matched healthy controls	6
Daily adherence variability and psychosocial differences in adolescents with asthma: a pilot study	6
A remotely delivered, peer-led intervention to improve physical activity and quality of life in younger breast cancer survivors	6
Associations of somatic depressive symptoms with body mass index, systemic inflammation, and insulin resistance in primary care patients with depression	6
Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of weight loss 12 to 15 years after bariatric surgery	6
Associations of light physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behavior with quality of life in men on androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a quantile regre	6
Perceived social support predicts self-reported and objective health and health behaviors among pregnant women	6