Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 55. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests1613
How and why patients made Long Covid552
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review369
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study354
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents335
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19311
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue281
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults270
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective266
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic196
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review162
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities154
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors129
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19125
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis120
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?109
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis107
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review107
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review103
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions101
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework100
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis99
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment98
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China98
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies91
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers91
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults91
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism89
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States88
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany85
Long Covid – The illness narratives80
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature78
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries77
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States77
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China74
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion74
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.70
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis69
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation69
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility69
Intergenerational communities: A systematic literature review of intergenerational interactions and older adults’ health-related outcomes68
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom65
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries65
The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach65
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review65
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation64
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t63
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries63
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic62
Economic complexity and health outcomes: A global perspective61
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities60
Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis60
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors56
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach55
Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China55
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis55
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