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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
How climate-induced weather shocks affect sexual and reproductive health: evidence from Vietnam	28
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science	27
Exodus of the affluent? Examining climate hazards, migration, and household income in the U.S.	25
Repeated disaster and the economic valuation of place: temporal dynamics of tornado effects on housing prices in the United States, 1980–2010	23
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	22
Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics	18
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	15
To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence	14
Correction: Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	14
Agricultural droughts and under-five mortality in Côte d’Ivoire: Differential impacts across social and demographic groups	13
Climate (im)mobilities in the Eastern Hindu Kush: The case of Lotkuh Valley, Pakistan	11
An estimate of age structure transition on carbon dioxide emission: panel analysis on Indian states	11
Climate anomalies and child health outcomes in the South Asian region	10
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
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	10
A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island	9
How does rural in-migration affect forest clearing and smallholder land use in tropical forest frontiers? Evidence from the Zambian Miombo woodlands	9
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	9
Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	9
Defend women’s rights and save the trees: a cross-national analysis of women’s immovable property rights and forest loss	9
The influence of COVID attitudes on environmental concern: a cross-national perspective	9
Population aging and carbon dynamics: investigating emissions trends in South Korea	8
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	8
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate: impact of non-optimal temperatures on life expectancy	7
Social differences in cause-specific infant mortality at the dawn of the demographic transition: New insights from German church records	7

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	6
Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in China: a modified index approach	6
LandScan HD: a high-resolution gridded ambient population methodology for the world	6
Do climate change and world uncertainty exacerbate gender inequality? Global evidence	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
Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?	6
Development context influences fertility and reproductive health decisions in Greenland amid economic and environmental change	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
Breathing dirty air, struggling in school: The case of air pollution and Student Learning in Chile	4
Rainfall and intimate partner violence	4
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe	4
Gender and climate action	4
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	4
Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh	4
From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation	4
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s	3
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India	3
The impact of early-life exposure to high temperatures on child development: evidence from China	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
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America	3
Extreme events, educational aspirations, and long-term outcomes	3
Does a prolonged hardship reduce life span? Examining the longevity of young men who lived through the 1930s Great Plains drought	3
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century	3
What drives parents’ use of air quality indexes during wildfire smoke events: predictors of index knowledge, frequent checking, and following health guidance	3
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances	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
Landscape fragmentation and population distribution in refugee camps: evidence from the Rohingya refugee influx in Bangladesh	2
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
Relationship between cooking fuels and health among under-5 children in Malawi: a nationwide time-trend survey from 2000 to 2016	2
Population and environment: the evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists	2
Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire	2
Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	2
Exposure to violent conflict and environmental conservation behaviors in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo	2
Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda	2
Disasters and subjective assessments of recovery in the long run	2
Residential mobility responses to home damage caused by floods, cyclones and bushfires in Australia	2
Ill-informed or ideologically driven? Climate change awareness and denial in Europe	2