OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 46. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	211
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	180
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	149
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	133
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	123
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	96
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	93
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	87
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	82
Corrigendum to “Determinants and transition of anaemia among under-five children from different social groups in India from 2005-06 to 2015–16” [Soc. Sci. Med. 320 (2022) 115702]	75
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	75
Corrigendum to ‘Livable city and depressive symptoms among older adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)’ [Soc. Sci. Med., volume 389 (2026) 1–12/	74
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	73
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	73
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	70
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	69
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	67
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	64
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	64
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	63
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	63
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	60
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	59
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	59
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	59

Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	58
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	57
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	56
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	55
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	54
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	54
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	53
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	53
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	52
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	52
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	51
New forms of expertise and their implications for the system of professions in healthcare: the case of the patient safety specialist role in the English NHS	50
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	50
Politeness strategies in doctor-patient communication on weight loss: Addressing face-threats in advice delivery	48
Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment	48
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	48
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	47
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	47
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	46
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	46
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	46