OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 48. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Stroke survival and the impact of geographic proximity to family members: A population-based cohort study	1911
Comparing the effect of a multisectoral agricultural intervention on HIV-related health outcomes between widowed and married women	340
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon	311
Grandparental childcare and subjective well-being: The role of activities and reasons for care	266
Will Tomorrow be Better? The Moral Experiments of Three Women with Mental Illness	171
Infant birth weight in Brazil: A cross-sectional historical approach	129
Structural racism and racial disparities in stroke mortality in the United States, 2021	124
How is process tracing applied in health research? A systematic scoping review	115
Association between behavioral jet lag with subjective and objective circadian rhythm among Chinese young adults	107
The experiences in close relationship and internet addiction among college Students: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and information cocoon	106
Rhythmanalysis of care: Daily practices among informal caregivers of children with cancer	103
Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of coronary heart disease: Insights from a prospective cohort study	102
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health	101
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	94
Does women empowerment impact child well-being? Evidence from India	91
Women's informal group participation and intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania: A longitudinal study	85
Framing of sensitive topics in surveys measuring corruption in healthcare	80
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	78
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	75
State-level gender-affirming healthcare policy and depressive symptoms among LGBTQ+ youth	75
Media bias in portrayals of mortality risks: Comparison of newspaper coverage to death rates	72
Prospective relationship between electronic health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle among Chinese older adults: A three-wave longitudinal study	71
The effect of cash transfers on health in high-income countries: A scoping review	70
Easing caregiver strain: The power of health check-ups	69
Context dependent preferences in prestige bias learning about vaccination in rural Namibian pastoralists	65

Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review	64
A low-cost digital first aid tool to reduce psychological distress in refugees: A multi-country randomized controlled trial of self-help online in the first months after the invasion of Ukraine	60
Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: A MUSP study	60
Thermal comfort and gender affirmation: A virtual ethnography of extreme heat among trans women in Rio de Janeiro	59
Hierarchy, class, race and PPE in an American hospital in the early days of COVID-19: What the pandemic stress test can teach us about building equitable health systems	57
Hazardous alcohol use is associated with food insecurity in adults living alone: Findings from a nationwide study in Korea	57
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	57
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	56
Disparities in quality of life by race, gender, and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis of population-representative data in Gauteng, South Africa	56
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of maternal and neonatal disorders: A counterfactual modeling based on the global burden of disease study (2021)	55
Socioeconomic inequality in the outcomes of a psychological intervention for depression for South Africans with a co-occurring chronic disease: A decomposition analysis	53
Male social embeddedness and intimate partner violence perpetration in Tanzania	53
‘Care as capital’: Developing theory about school investment in mental health and wellbeing	53
Spousal characteristics and unmet care needs: A longitudinal national study of adults aged 50 and over in England	53
Understanding deep disadvantage at the end of life: A nationwide analysis of unclaimed deaths	52
Intersectional inequities in colorectal cancer screening attendance in Sweden: Using decision trees for intersectional matrix reduction	52
Borrowing regulatory capacity in middle-income countries during public health crises: Brazil, regulatory reliance, and the politics of COVD-19 vaccine regulation	52
Age-friendly community environments and the age trajectories of long-term care dependency among Chinese older adults	51
Structural violence as a driver of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada: A qualitative study	51
Associations of sexual orientation and state-level antidiscrimination policy protections with alcohol, tobacco, and mental health outcomes in a U.S. sample of adolescents and adults	49
Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample	49
Problems with NICE's severity weights	48
Moving Opportunistically: Interstate Migration after Medicaid Expansion	48
Effects of communicating health disparities using social comparison framing: A comprehensive review	48
Observations of teamworking in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic: bridging roles of podiatry and technology	48
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	48