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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics	38
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science	22
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	20
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	20
How climate-induced weather shocks affect sexual and reproductive health: evidence from Vietnam	17
To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence	15
Correction: Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	15
Climate (im)mobilities in the Eastern Hindu Kush: The case of Lotkuh Valley, Pakistan	14
Agricultural droughts and under-five mortality in Côte d’Ivoire: Differential impacts across social and demographic groups	12
Defend women’s rights and save the trees: a cross-national analysis of women’s immovable property rights and forest loss	11
An estimate of age structure transition on carbon dioxide emission: panel analysis on Indian states	11
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?	10
A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island	9
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	8
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	8
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
Do climate change and world uncertainty exacerbate gender inequality? Global evidence	7
The influence of COVID attitudes on environmental concern: a cross-national perspective	7
Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
How does rural in-migration affect forest clearing and smallholder land use in tropical forest frontiers? Evidence from the Zambian Miombo woodlands	7
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate: impact of non-optimal temperatures on life expectancy	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
Social differences in cause-specific infant mortality at the dawn of the demographic transition: New insights from German church records	6
Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?	6
Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in China: a modified index approach	6

From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure	6
The effects of environmental stress on global agricultural landownership	5
Demographic and socioeconomic effects of environmental policies: the 1927 special goat tax and mountain depopulation in Italy	5
Investigating the impacts of rainfall, armed conflict, and COVID-19 shocks on women’s household decision-making among partnered women in Burkina Faso	5
Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh	5
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	4
Breathing dirty air, struggling in school: The case of air pollution and Student Learning in Chile	4
Residential energy consumption by Japan’s super-aging society: visioning a more sustainable future up to 2040	4
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe	4
Gender and climate action	4
Rainfall shocks, soil health, and child health outcomes	3
Residence in infected neighborhoods and fertility decline during the Zika epidemic in Singapore	3
Socioeconomic disparities in climate vulnerability: neonatal mortality in northern Sweden, 1880–1950	3
Social vulnerability and population loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria	3
Does a prolonged hardship reduce life span? Examining the longevity of young men who lived through the 1930s Great Plains drought	3
Rainfall and intimate partner violence	3
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s	3
What drives parents’ use of air quality indexes during wildfire smoke events: predictors of index knowledge, frequent checking, and following health guidance	2
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century	2
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances	2
Landscape fragmentation and population distribution in refugee camps: evidence from the Rohingya refugee influx in Bangladesh	2
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India	2
Modeling population density guided by land use-cover change model: a case study of Bogotá	2
Local perceptions of socio-ecological drivers and effects of coastal armoring: the case of Moorea, French Polynesia	2
Disasters and subjective assessments of recovery in the long run	2
Population and environment: the evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists	2
The influence of population aging on global climate policy	2
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America	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
Residential mobility responses to home damage caused by floods, cyclones and bushfires in Australia	2