Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 54. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests924
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.620
How and why patients made Long Covid467
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study330
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review328
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents312
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19280
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue264
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective247
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults246
Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID-19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic242
The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review210
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic182
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries182
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities139
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review122
Racial discrimination and child and adolescent health in longitudinal studies: A systematic review117
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19116
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors111
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis110
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions98
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment95
Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research94
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?91
Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine89
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis86
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers84
Excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: Early evidence from England and Wales83
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review79
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China78
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany76
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults73
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States72
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis71
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework71
Formal social participation protects physical health through enhanced mental health: A longitudinal mediation analysis using three consecutive waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in E70
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions67
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China66
Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers66
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism66
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion65
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries64
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.63
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies62
Gender and secular trends in adolescent mental health over 24 years – The role of school-related stress62
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility61
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic58
“We are fierce, independent thinkers and intelligent”: Social capital and stigma management among mothers who refuse vaccines58
Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings58
Long Covid – The illness narratives58
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries57
Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment57
Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami55
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom55
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries54
Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease54
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature54
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