Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Science & Medicine is 9. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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A happiness approach to valuing health states for children3659
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making239
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico227
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography140
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries136
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice135
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives132
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment124
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in Adult Social Care123
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy95
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile95
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice89
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis89
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study84
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood81
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey80
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States79
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–202379
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education78
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups78
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks75
Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment74
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care69
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles69
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study69
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity68
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden66
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]65
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems64
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information63
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing61
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness60
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 members60
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits60
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition60
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice59
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]59
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics:A landmarking analysis approach59
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes58
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health56
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity56
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda56
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage55
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?54
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey54
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth: Pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course trajectories53
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan53
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic53
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context53
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory52
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China51
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis51
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data51
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners51
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response51
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai50
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice50
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 NHS50
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil49
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset49
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development49
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare48
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies48
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations48
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults47
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan47
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began47
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being46
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing46
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit45
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel45
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis45
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China45
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status44
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography43
A network analysis of ‘thinking a lot’: Connections to childhood trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among men who have sex with men in Vietnam43
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.43
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana43
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment42
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’42
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared41
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces41
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism41
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues41
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles41
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities41
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective40
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system40
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon39
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial39
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices39
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India39
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States38
Bridging the Digital Divide in the Pharmaceutical Industry: a Future Research Agenda38
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications38
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review38
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults38
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway38
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use38
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine38
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research38
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review38
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 Ghana38
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods38
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being37
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity37
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study37
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities37
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices37
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway36
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia36
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Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation35
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents35
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Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography35
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Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age: Natural language processing and qualitative analysis of data from internet support forums35
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories35
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors35
Building patient trust in health systems: A qualitative study of facework in the context of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role in Queensland, Australia34
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy34
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity34
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology34
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India34
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.34
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems34
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation33
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance33
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling33
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders33
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas33
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study33
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth32
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?32
“Nobody has written the book about what non-binary people should put forward in relationships”: Exploring gender equity in relationships of queer, trans, and non-monogamous young women and non-binary 32
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming32
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community32
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands32
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review32
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster32
Commentary on Burns, Nembhard and Shortell, “Integrating network theory into the study of integrated healthcare”: Revisiting and extending research on structural and processual factors affecting coord32
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation32
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety31
Has Ebola delayed progress on access to routine care and financial protection in Sierra Leone? Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis with propensity score weighting31
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making31
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department31
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer31
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Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions31
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Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis31
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Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study30
“It's no good but at least I've always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people30
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state30
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides30
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care30
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach30
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models29
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era29
Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research29
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective29
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach29
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region29
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States29
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood29
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance29
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study29
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes28
The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States28
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’28
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents28
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu28
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement28
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?28
Influence of socioeconomic position on the relationship between long COVID and health-related quality of life: A nationwide random sampling survey in France in autumn 202228
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic27
Maternal depression, alcohol use, and transient effects of perinatal paraprofessional home visiting in South Africa: Eight-year follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial27
Evaluate the health risks and impact pathways of precarious employment in the context of globalization: A national longitudinal research from 2017 to 2023 in Japan27
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement27
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data27
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens27
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review26
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions26
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators26
A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk26
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support26
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data26
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada26
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach26
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence26
Loss, Inflammation, and Cognition: Understanding the Lifecourse Impact of Early Life Parental Disruption26
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis26
Costs and economies of scale in repeated home-based HIV counselling and testing: Evidence from the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in South Africa26
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria26
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation26
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health26
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation26
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services26
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations26
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women25
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response25
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence25
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States25
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers25
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs25
Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology25
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways25
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime25
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?25
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review25
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults25
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts25
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass25
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation25
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia24
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain24
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme24
When patients demur: Resisting diagnostic closure in US primary care24
Health—Embodiment of corporeal experiences: Meanings of health among individuals living with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in The Gambia24
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis24
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study24
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital24
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity24
How do social and economic vulnerabilities shape the work of participating in care? Everyday experiences of people living with kidney failure in Argentina24
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex24
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?24
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study24
Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics24
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries24
Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care23
Do we agree or disagree? A systematic review of the application of preference-based instruments in self and proxy reporting of quality of life in older people23
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“I let others speak about condoms:” Muslim religious leaders’ selective engagement with an NGO-Led family planning project in rural Tanzania23
Rurality and opioid prescribing rates in U.S. counties from 2006 to 2018: A spatiotemporal investigation23
Aging bodies, future technologies: Health insurance coverage and stratified biomedicalization23
Conditional risk perception and protection behavior: Testing the behavior motivation hypothesis and the risk reappraisal hypothesis23
Contextual fallacy in MLMs with cross-level interaction: A critical review of neighborhood effects on psychiatric resilience23
My future-self has (not) quit smoking: An experimental study into the effect of a future-self intervention on smoking-related self-identity constructs23
Medicine, structural racism, and systems23
Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review23
'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift23
Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers' health: Initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law23
Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials23
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Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies22
“It's a reality that we in medicine should catch up with”: Physician's attitudes about self-sourced and managed abortion in the United States22
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