OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population and Environment is 2. 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
How climate-induced weather shocks affect sexual and reproductive health: evidence from Vietnam	40
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science	24
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	23
Repeated disaster and the economic valuation of place: temporal dynamics of tornado effects on housing prices in the United States, 1980–2010	18
Exodus of the affluent? Examining climate hazards, migration, and household income in the U.S.	18
Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics	15
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	15
To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence	13
Climate (im)mobilities in the Eastern Hindu Kush: The case of Lotkuh Valley, Pakistan	11
Correction: Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	11
An estimate of age structure transition on carbon dioxide emission: panel analysis on Indian states	10
Agricultural droughts and under-five mortality in Côte d’Ivoire: Differential impacts across social and demographic groups	9
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	9
A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island	9
The effect of the local environment on child nutritional outcomes: how does seasonality relate to wasting amongst children under 5 in south-west coastal Bangladesh?	9
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	9
The influence of COVID attitudes on environmental concern: a cross-national perspective	8
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	8
How does rural in-migration affect forest clearing and smallholder land use in tropical forest frontiers? Evidence from the Zambian Miombo woodlands	8
Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	8
Defend women’s rights and save the trees: a cross-national analysis of women’s immovable property rights and forest loss	8
Social differences in cause-specific infant mortality at the dawn of the demographic transition: New insights from German church records	7
Do climate change and world uncertainty exacerbate gender inequality? Global evidence	7
Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in China: a modified index approach	7
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate: impact of non-optimal temperatures on life expectancy	6

Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?	6
Not only cold but also heat: the effect of maternal exposure to high temperatures during gestation on neonatal mortality in pre-transitional Casalguidi, 1819–1859	6
From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure	6
Investigating the impacts of rainfall, armed conflict, and COVID-19 shocks on women’s household decision-making among partnered women in Burkina Faso	5
The effects of environmental stress on global agricultural landownership	5
Development context influences fertility and reproductive health decisions in Greenland amid economic and environmental change	5
From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation	4
Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh	4
Breathing dirty air, struggling in school: The case of air pollution and Student Learning in Chile	4
Demographic and socioeconomic effects of environmental policies: the 1927 special goat tax and mountain depopulation in Italy	4
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe	4
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	3
Residential energy consumption by Japan’s super-aging society: visioning a more sustainable future up to 2040	3
Social vulnerability and population loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria	3
Rainfall and intimate partner violence	3
Does a prolonged hardship reduce life span? Examining the longevity of young men who lived through the 1930s Great Plains drought	3
Residence in infected neighborhoods and fertility decline during the Zika epidemic in Singapore	3
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century	3
Gender and climate action	3
Rainfall shocks, soil health, and child health outcomes	3
Modeling population density guided by land use-cover change model: a case study of Bogotá	3
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s	3
Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda	2
The influence of population aging on global climate policy	2
Local perceptions of socio-ecological drivers and effects of coastal armoring: the case of Moorea, French Polynesia	2
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances	2
Population and environment: the evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists	2
Disasters and subjective assessments of recovery in the long run	2
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India	2
The impact of early-life exposure to high temperatures on child development: evidence from China	2
Extreme events, educational aspirations, and long-term outcomes	2
Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire	2
Landscape fragmentation and population distribution in refugee camps: evidence from the Rohingya refugee influx in Bangladesh	2
What drives parents’ use of air quality indexes during wildfire smoke events: predictors of index knowledge, frequent checking, and following health guidance	2
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America	2
Residential mobility responses to home damage caused by floods, cyclones and bushfires in Australia	2