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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science	34
Repeated disaster and the economic valuation of place: temporal dynamics of tornado effects on housing prices in the United States, 1980–2010	33
Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics	27
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	25
Exodus of the affluent? Examining climate hazards, migration, and household income in the U.S.	22
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	19
How climate-induced weather shocks affect sexual and reproductive health: evidence from Vietnam	17
Correction: Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	15
To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence	15
Climate anomalies and child health outcomes in the South Asian region	14
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	13
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?	11
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	11
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	9
Defend women’s rights and save the trees: a cross-national analysis of women’s immovable property rights and forest loss	9
A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island	9
The influence of COVID attitudes on environmental concern: a cross-national perspective	9
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
Population aging and carbon dynamics: investigating emissions trends in South Korea	8
Social differences in cause-specific infant mortality at the dawn of the demographic transition: New insights from German church records	8
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	7

Do climate change and world uncertainty exacerbate gender inequality? Global evidence	7
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	7
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
LandScan HD: a high-resolution gridded ambient population methodology for the world	6
Demographic and socioeconomic effects of environmental policies: the 1927 special goat tax and mountain depopulation in Italy	6
An environment and comprehensive wellbeing (ECW) conceptual framework: exploring environmental relationships with objective and subjective wellbeing	6
The effects of environmental stress on global agricultural landownership	6
From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure	6
Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?	6
Investigating the impacts of rainfall, armed conflict, and COVID-19 shocks on women’s household decision-making among partnered women in Burkina Faso	6
The influence of the built–to–natural environment continuum on the life satisfaction of the older adult population in Europe	5
From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation	5
Development context influences fertility and reproductive health decisions in Greenland amid economic and environmental change	5
The compounding effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hurricane Dorian displaced households in the Bahamas	5
Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh	5
Breathing dirty air, struggling in school: The case of air pollution and Student Learning in Chile	5
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe	5
What drives parents’ use of air quality indexes during wildfire smoke events: predictors of index knowledge, frequent checking, and following health guidance	4
Rainfall and intimate partner violence	4
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America	4
The impact of early-life exposure to high temperatures on child development: evidence from China	4
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	4
Residential energy consumption by Japan’s super-aging society: visioning a more sustainable future up to 2040	4
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century	4
Social vulnerability and population loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria	4
Internal migration following local environmental disasters: the intersection of race, socioeconomic status, and local family ties	4
Rainfall shocks, soil health, and child health outcomes	4
Extreme events, educational aspirations, and long-term outcomes	3
Climate change and food security in Ethiopia	3
Landscape fragmentation and population distribution in refugee camps: evidence from the Rohingya refugee influx in Bangladesh	3
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances	3
Population and environment: the evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists	3
The effects of home-country natural disasters on refugee mental health	3
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India	3
Disasters and subjective assessments of recovery in the long run	3
The influence of population aging on global climate policy	2
Socio-demographic and socio-economic differences in the availability of green space in the Netherlands	2
Residential mobility responses to home damage caused by floods, cyclones and bushfires in Australia	2
Intersectionality of water insecurity on the US-Mexico border: A novel micro-level analysis	2
Ill-informed or ideologically driven? Climate change awareness and denial in Europe	2
Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda	2
Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	2
Relationship between cooking fuels and health among under-5 children in Malawi: a nationwide time-trend survey from 2000 to 2016	2
Climate migration and well-being: a study on ex-pastoralists in northern Kenya	2
Climate change and getting pregnant: a full accounting of conceptions in Armenia and Tajikistan	2
Exposure to violent conflict and environmental conservation behaviors in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo	2
Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire	2
Cash transfers relax climate-induced mobility constraints in Kenya	2
Mortality and mobility: understanding the impact of family member death on post-disaster mobility	2
Correction: Environmental change, aquatic conditions, and household food security: evidence from Lake Malawi	2