OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population and Environment is 5. 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
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	20
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	20
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 (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
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	8
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	8
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
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
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
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
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
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