OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Public Health is 24. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Designing Difference in Difference Studies: Best Practices for Public Health Policy Research	890
The Relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach	538
Environmental Influences on the Epigenome: Exposure- Associated DNA Methylation in Human Populations	453
The Sustainability of Evidence-Based Interventions and Practices in Public Health and Health Care	422
Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health	395
Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications	394
E-Cigarettes: Use, Effects on Smoking, Risks, and Policy Implications	322
Migrant Workers and Their Occupational Health and Safety	273
Modeling Health Care Expenditures and Use	242
Vaccine Hesitancy, Acceptance, and Anti-Vaccination: Trends and Future Prospects for Public Health	237
Harm Minimization and Tobacco Control: Reframing Societal Views of Nicotine Use to Rapidly Save Lives	228
Big Data in Public Health: Terminology, Machine Learning, and Privacy	215
Agent-Based Modeling in Public Health: Current Applications and Future Directions	207
Selecting and Improving Quasi-Experimental Designs in Effectiveness and Implementation Research	207
Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research	206
Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health	170
Prediabetes and What It Means: The Epidemiological Evidence	148
Social Connection as a Public Health Issue: The Evidence and a Systemic Framework for Prioritizing the “Social” in Social Determinants of Health	137
Improving Access to Care: Telemedicine Across Medical Domains	121
Problems and Prospects: Public Health Regulation of Dietary Supplements	120
Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It	107
Mobile Health (mHealth) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	106
From Crowdsourcing to Extreme Citizen Science: Participatory Research for Environmental Health	106
Relative Roles of Race Versus Socioeconomic Position in Studies of Health Inequalities: A Matter of Interpretation	104
Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence	103

Precision Medicine from a Public Health Perspective	101
Addressing Social Needs in Health Care Settings: Evidence, Challenges, and Opportunities for Public Health	100
Eliminating Explicit and Implicit Biases in Health Care: Evidence and Research Needs	98
Environmental Factors Influencing COVID-19 Incidence and Severity	96
Mobile Sensing in Environmental Health and Neighborhood Research	95
Increasing Disparities in Mortality by Socioeconomic Status	94
Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Public Health	92
Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health	87
Green Infrastructure and Health	82
Environmental Influences on the Human Microbiome and Implications for Noncommunicable Disease	81
Active Aging and Public Health: Evidence, Implications, and Opportunities	72
Environmental Determinants of Breast Cancer	65
Declining Life Expectancy in the United States: Missing the Trees for the Forest	64
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Reduction Policies: Progress and Promise	61
Building Evidence for Health: Green Buildings, Current Science, and Future Challenges	61
Air Quality in Africa: Public Health Implications	59
A Review of the Quality and Impact of Mobile Health Apps	58
Treatment and Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities	57
Policy Approaches for Regulating Alcohol Marketing in a Global Context: A Public Health Perspective	55
Climate Change, Food Supply, and Dietary Guidelines	53
The Recent Rise of Suicide Mortality in the United States	47
The Indian Health Service and American Indian/Alaska Native Health Outcomes	47
Expanding Implementation Research to Prevent Chronic Diseases in Community Settings	45
Environmental Health Threats to Latino Migrant Farmworkers	45
Health and Health Care Among Transgender Adults in the United States	45
Multilevel Determinants of Digital Health Equity: A Literature Synthesis to Advance the Field	44
Understanding Health Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Epigenetics	40
The Debate About Electronic Cigarettes: Harm Minimization or the Precautionary Principle	40
Meta-Analysis of Complex Interventions	39
A Critical Review of the Social and Behavioral Contributions to the Overdose Epidemic	38
Cash Transfers and Health	37
The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Health Equity	37
Methods to Address Confounding and Other Biases in Meta-Analyses: Review and Recommendations	36
Reproducible Research: A Retrospective	36
The State of the US Public Health Workforce: Ongoing Challenges and Future Directions	33
Social Capital, Black Social Mobility, and Health Disparities	32
Social Epidemiology: Past, Present, and Future	32
Personal Interventions to Reduce Exposure to Outdoor Air Pollution	28
How Much Do We Spend? Creating Historical Estimates of Public Health Expenditures in the United States at the Federal, State, and Local Levels	28
Data Resources for Conducting Health Services and Policy Research	28
Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012–2020)	27
Health Misinformation Exposure and Health Disparities: Observations and Opportunities	25
Promoting Prevention Under the Affordable Care Act	25
Qualitative Research Methods in Chronic Disease: Introduction and Opportunities to Promote Health Equity	25
Risks and Opportunities to Ensure Equity in the Application of Big Data Research in Public Health	24
When Moving Is the Only Option: The Role of Necessity Versus Choice for Understanding and Promoting Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	24