OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 51. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	2638
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	204
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	176
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	128
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	125
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	112
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	101
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	101
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	100
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	100
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	100
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	98
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	98
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	85
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	82
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	76
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	72
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	70
Editorial Board	70
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	70
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	68
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	67
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	67
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	66
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	64

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	64
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	64
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	64
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	64
Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia	63
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	62
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	62
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	61
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	60
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	60
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	60
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	59
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	59
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	59
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	58
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	55
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	55
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	55
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	54
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	54
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	53
Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	52
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	52
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	52
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	51
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	51