OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Health Policy is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How reported outbreak data can shape individual behavior in a social world	79
Prioritizing COVID-19 test utilization during supply shortages in the late phase pandemic	68
A prescription drug monitoring program, data sharing, and upholding states’ rights under the United States Constitution	38
Should we still talk about crisis?	35
Correction: Assessing the health consequences of northern Ethiopian armed conflict, 2022	27
Harm reduction in tobacco control: where do we draw the line?	26
Oral health is an integral part of maternal and child health	23
Documenting and preventing the impacts of war	19
Adolescent autonomy for the COVID-19 vaccine	17
Emergency use authorization (EUA), conditional marketing authorization (CMA), and the precautionary principle at the time of COVID-19 pandemic	17
How to find nothing 2.0	17
Can fixing dinner fix the planet?	16
Is the press properly presenting the epidemiological data on COVID-19? An analysis of newspapers from 25 countries	12
Special thanks to reviewers for 2020: the COVID-19 year of trial by fire	12
Correction to: Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022	11
Undocumented donors: how driver’s licenses can help solve the U.S. organ shortage	11
Challenges of online surveys and synthetic data in achieving reproducibility in public health research: echoes of the “rise of the machines”	10
Could we survive a belief crisis?	10
Determinants of neonatal, infant and under-five mortalities: evidence from a developing country, Bangladesh	9
Use of the Delphi method as an instrument of community participation in health needs assessment	9
Evolution of telemedicine in China during COVID-19 pandemic: from 2020 to 2022	9
Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures	8
Enhancing children’s awareness of sexual abuse in Pakistan with video literacy interventional cartoons	8
Advancing health policy development through cross-cultural teams: examples from two global maternal and child health policies	8
Social vulnerability, parity and food insecurity in urban South African young women: the healthy life trajectories initiative (HeLTI) study	8

First, do no harm: why anti-immigrant policies in the United States are a public health concern	7
“Because We Are Afraid”: voices of the undocumented in a new immigrant destination in the United States	7
Telemedicine during COVID-19 in India—a new policy and its challenges	7
Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters	7
COVID-19 vaccination in correctional systems in the United States	7
Correction to: Nuclear bomb and public health	7
Intellectual humility in public health training, research, and practice	7
Measuring income-associated inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination on a global scale: a modeling study	7
The relationship between income, weight, and using traffic-light labeling to buy processed food in Ecuador	7
Alcohol imagery in popular films in China, 2001–2020	7
Domestic violence, women’s health, and the sustainable development goals: integrating global targets, India’s national policies, and local responses	7
See, seek, support: a policy framework to uplift first-generation low-income medical professionals	6
Inequalities in women’s health insurance coverage before and after the implementation of universal health insurance in Indonesia	6
Trends in trust of professional groups in Portugal during COVID-19	6
A public health framework for the equitable global allocation of vaccines: COVID-NEEDS	6
Implementation and impact of integrated health and social care services: an umbrella review	6
Telling truth with data visuals: a guide for public health professionals	6
The need for a holistic approach toward pandemic control: lessons from a cross-sectional study on COVID-19 in Meghalaya, India	6
A call to action: securing an uninterrupted supply of Africa’s medical products and technologies post COVID-19	6
Critical healthcare for older adults post Hurricane Ian in Florida, United States	6
Challenges and opportunities of vaccination during pregnancy: perspectives of 20 healthcare professionals	5
International humanitarian law violations in northern Uganda: victims' health, policy, and programming implications	5
Positional goods and the underfunding of public health	5
Perceived social measures and drinking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand	5
Diets high in subsidized foods and chronic kidney disease in Hispanic communities in the United States: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos	5
Health workforce retention in low-income settings: an application of the Root Stem Model	5
Flavored electronic nicotine delivery system product use among adults in New York State post-statewide restriction implementation	5
Where is the money? Insights into China’s post-COVID healthcare corruption-busting campaign	5
Salt: a narrative review and local policy initiatives in Israel	5
Patterns and predictors of non-communicable disease multimorbidity among older adults in India: evidence from longitudinal ageing study in India (LASI), 2017–2018	5
Ethical considerations for mandating food worker vaccination during outbreaks: an analysis of hepatitis A vaccine	5
Telemedicine is now legal in Armenia, how to make it a routine clinical practice?	5
A “food insecurity poverty line” to replace the official threshold in Canadian rural and urban settings? A single-person household perspective	5
State adoption of paid sick leave and cardiovascular disease mortality among adults in the United States, 2008–2019	4
Risk messaging style and its effect on public preparedness for earthquakes: longitudinal intervention-based study	4
Progress and challenges in tobacco control policies in Mexico, 2003–2017: an approach using the Tobacco Control Scale	4
Implementation of Canada’s youth justice minimum age of 12: implications for children in Canada and globally	4
Engaging black and minority ethnic groups in health research: ‘hard to reach’? Demystifying the misconceptions	4
Factors influencing attraction and retention of frontline health workers in remote and rural areas in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment	4
COVID-19 Pandemic: the case of Cameroon	3
North Korean arrivals’ medical service usage in South Korea, 2015–2019	3
An assessment of court fees, surcharges, and penalties for alcohol-impaired driving in five midwestern U.S. states: implications for exacerbating poverty and health inequalities	3
Leaving no-one behind in the workplace health promotion: towards regulatory equity in the Ecuadorian micro-enterprises	3
Trends in tuberculosis and inequality-adjusted Human Development Index in Brazil, 2018–2022	3
Correlation between tobacco control policies and the smoking behaviors of European adolescents from 2005 to 2019	3
High transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Amazonia, Brazil: an epidemiological strategy to contain severe cases of COVID-19	3
Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and subjective poverty in Russia	3
Gambling advertising regulation in Ghana: what do we know and where to next?	3
Consequences of microaggresion, macroagression, and mega-aggression from the public health perspective	3
Caregiver policies in the United States: a systematic review	3

A mistake-find exercise: a teacher’s tool to engage with information innovations, ChatGPT, and their analogs	3
Advocating for breast cancer reconstructive surgery access in the United States	3
Caregiver perceptions of England’s universal infant school meal provision during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Global health and social work professions take action on equality and sustainability: returning to our roots	3
Achieving paid family leave in Oregon, USA: analysis of the policy process using the advocacy coalition framework	3
Precision public health: is it all about the data?	3
Health professional retention in underserved areas: findings from the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program participants in the United States, 2019–2021	2
Publisher Correction to: Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative	2
Why does the COVAX facility fail to bridge the ‘immunization gap’?	2
Secondhand smoke exposure from the indoor and outdoor shisha centers located at the perimeter of educational institutions in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study	2
What informs oral health and chronic disease policy development in Australia: a citation analysis	2
Factors associated with Afghan household food security pre- and post-Taliban regime	2
COVID-19, migrants, and world large urban areas: a thematic policy brief	2
Testing behaviour change with an artificial intelligence chatbot in a randomized controlled study	2
Who is responsible for AI-generated public health policies?	2
Correction: Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters	2
Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Understanding attitudes, knowledge, and use of e-health services in the health system in Spain	2
The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity	2
Food-based domestic violence and anemia among women in sexual unions in Nigeria: the effect of urbanization	2
The economic imperatives for technology enabled wellness centered healthcare	2
Nuclear war and the public health community: the responsibility to act	2
Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion, access to health care, and financial behavior of the United States adults	2
The role of thought experiments as sources of insights and lessons to tackle pandemics and other existential threats	2
Examining variation in the relationship between disability and physical activity across Australian local government areas	2
Is nutrition labeling associated with decreased obesity? A quantitative approach to nutritional health policy in Ecuador	2
Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax implementation and changes in interior marketing displays	2
The ethics of COVID-19 vaccine distribution	2
Urgent action needed: addressing the regulatory gap in e-cigarette trade and usage	2
How well global dietary intake estimates agree: a case of sodium consumption	2
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	2
Cold housing environments: defining the problem for an appropriate policy response	2
Screening participants with inflammatory bowel disease or high colorectal cancer risk in Denmark: a cohort study	2
Perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students in Australia: a qualitative study	1
Statistics behind the headlines by A. John Bailer and Rosemary Pennington	1
Child mortality inequalities and socioeconomic determinants of health in Iran, 2016–2018	1
State laws on intimate partner violence witnessed by children in the United States	1
Causal AI for public health research and policy: a journey back to the future	1
Missingness and algorithmic bias: an example from the United States National Outbreak Reporting System, 2009–2019	1
Stakeholders’ assessment of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contributions to the development of National Public Health Institutes in seven countries	1
How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19	1
Are healthful behavior change policies ever unethical?	1
Evaluation of “Catch Up to Get Ahead” efforts on administration of routine childhood vaccinations during COVID-19 pandemic, United States Indian Health Service, 2020	1
How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science	1
Implementation costs of sugary drink policies in the United States	1
Social vulnerability and its association with food insecurity in the South African population: findings from a National Survey	1
The transgender phenomenon: needs for research	1
Unveiling the invisible: the power of MENA data in advancing health equity in the United States	1
Exploring a shared vision for success in permanent supportive housing: a community-partnered study in Colorado, USA	1
On the way to recovery with the help of a keystone species	1
Governments’ accountability for Canada’s pandemic response	1
Ways out of the crisis: how gender equality can help overcome COVID-19	1
Recommendations for maternal mental health policy in India	1
Association of cigarette excise taxes and clean indoor air laws with change in smoking behavior in the United States: a Markov modeling analysis	1
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	1
Spatial analysis of community service availability in rural Kentucky, United States	1
Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative	1
Correction: Oral health is an integral part of maternal and child health	1
Does family medicine reduce household health expenditures: evidence from Türkiye	1
From evidence to advice in France, Germany, and the UK: transparency, accountability, and participation in pandemic science advice	1
The ethics of encouraging employees to get the COVID-19 vaccination	1
Vaccine distribution exacerbates the social divide	1
Implementation of a non-communicable disease clinic in rural Sierra Leone: early experiences and lessons learned	1
The hidden imbalance in neighbourhood nutrition environment: a perspective from lower-middle-income country setting	1
The role of the private sector in public health: experience from the CONMEBOL Copa América 2020 tournament	1
Timeliness of provisional United States mortality data releases during the COVID-19 pandemic: delays associated with electronic death registration system and weekly mortality	1