OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 44. 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
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	183
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	170
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	144
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	123
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	109
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care	106
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	89
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	86
The impact of home mechanical ventilation on the time and manner of death for those with Motor neurone disease (MND): A qualitative study of bereaved family members	77
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	76
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	71
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	69
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	68
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	68
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	68
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]	66
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	66
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	64
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/	64
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	61
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	60
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	60
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	56
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being	55
Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm	55

Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa	55
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	52
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	52
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	51
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	50
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	49
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	49
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	48
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	48
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	48
I feel the pains of our past water struggles anytime I turn on the tap: Diaspora perceptions and experiences of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) gendered violence in Ghana	48
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	48
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	47
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	47
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	46
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	46
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	46
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	46
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	44
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	44
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	44