Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Science & Medicine is 10. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests1577
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.691
How and why patients made Long Covid552
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review369
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study353
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents335
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19311
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue281
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 epidemic272
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults270
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective266
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries207
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic194
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review162
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities153
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors126
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19125
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis120
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis107
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review106
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?105
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review103
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions101
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework100
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China98
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment98
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis96
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults91
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies91
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers91
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism89
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States88
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany85
Long Covid – The illness narratives80
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature78
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries77
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States77
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion74
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China74
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.70
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation69
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility69
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis69
Intergenerational communities: A systematic literature review of intergenerational interactions and older adults’ health-related outcomes68
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review65
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom65
The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach65
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries64
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation64
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries63
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t63
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic62
Economic complexity and health outcomes: A global perspective61
Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis60
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities60
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors56
Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China55
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach55
Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US54
Time of pandemic: Temporal perspectives related to compliance with public health regulations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic54
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions53
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis53
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods52
Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-1952
Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach51
Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents51
Mechanisms connecting objective and subjective poverty to mental health: Serial mediation roles of negative life events and social support50
Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak49
Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control49
Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities: A systematic review of observational studies in high-income countries49
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles49
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college49
Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic48
An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration48
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors48
Social factors and worry associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a large survey in China48
Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?48
Gendered syndemic of intimate partner violence, alcohol misuse, and HIV risk among peri-urban, heterosexual men in South Africa47
Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review47
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review46
Do personal health concerns and trust in healthcare providers mitigate privacy concerns? Effects on patients’ intention to share personal health data on electronic health records46
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era46
Changing emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China45
The contested meaning of “long COVID” – Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence45
Psychosocial consequences of transitioning into informal caregiving in male and female caregivers: Findings from a population-based panel study45
The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil45
Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review44
Unintended consequences of institutionalizing peer support work in mental healthcare44
Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?44
Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents44
Confidence in social institutions, perceived vulnerability and the adoption of recommended protective behaviors in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic43
Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends43
Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels43
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases43
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A field experiment in India42
The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID42
Area level deprivation and monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of government policy in England42
A multi-national test on self-reported compliance with COVID-19 public health measures: The role of individual age and gender demographics and countries’ developmental status41
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States41
The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study41
The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data41
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?41
Power and the people's health41
Life-course trajectories of employment quality and health in the U.S.: A multichannel sequence analysis41
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities40
Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach40
HPV Vaccine Promotion: The church as an agent of change40
Engagement in leisure activities and depression in older adults in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study40
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–201740
Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender40
An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”40
Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables39
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Modelling of COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases: A Baseline Socio-economic Compartmental Model39
The impact of food insecurity on mental health in Africa: A systematic review39
A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries39
Frailty and depression: Reciprocal influences or common causes?39
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT38
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review38
“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination38
The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies38
Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries38
Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression38
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women38
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries38
Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them38
“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare38
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation38
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples’ relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany37
Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care37
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification37
Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID1937
Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments37
“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience37
Alcohol use and the COVID-19 pandemic: Historical trends in drinking, contexts, and reasons for use among U.S. adults37
“People need them or else they're going to take fentanyl and die”: A qualitative study examining the ‘problem’ of prescription opioid diversion during an overdose epidemic37
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe36
Associations of religiosity, attitudes towards suicide and religious coping with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in 11 muslim countries36
Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers36
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence36
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review36
Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents36
Perceived social support and health-related quality of life in older adults who have multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a dyadic analysis36
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass36
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of U.S. vital statistics data from 2009 to 201835
The long-term financial and psychological resettlement outcomes of pre-migration trauma and post-settlement difficulties in resettled refugees35
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis35
Syndemic theory, methods, and data34
Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?34
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals34
Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-1934
Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories34
COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America33
Why does abortion stigma matter? A scoping review and hybrid analysis of qualitative evidence illustrating the role of stigma in the quality of abortion care33
Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia33
Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets33
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review33
Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade33
Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping33
Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country32
Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience32
Applying an intersectional framework to understand syndemic conditions among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men32
Examining the associations between oral health and social isolation: A cross-national comparative study between Japan and England32
Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review32
Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands32
Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework32
The limitations of patient-centered care: The case of early long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal32
Change in psychological distress in response to changes in reduced mobility during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of modest effects from the U.S.32
The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health31
The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings31
Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study31
Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise31
Media guidelines and suicide: A critical review31
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral31
Distributive justice in environmental health hazards from industrial contamination: A systematic review of national and near-national assessments of social inequalities30
Personality and self-rated health across eight cohort studies30
Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review30
Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment30
Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life30
The effects of India's COVID-19 lockdown on critical non-COVID health care and outcomes: Evidence from dialysis patients30
Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities30
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa30
Effectiveness of nudges as a tool to promote adherence to guidelines in healthcare and their organizational implications: A systematic review30
Lifestyle behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being: A daily diary study30
The mental health effects of a Universal Basic Income: A synthesis of the evidence from previous pilots30
The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities30
Linked fate and mental health among African Americans30
Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review30
Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China29
“Am I really alive?”: Understanding the role of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in young LGBT+ people's suicidal distress29
The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers29
Understanding integrated care at the frontline using organisational learning theory: A participatory evaluation of multi-professional teams in East London29
Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans29
Longitudinal interrelationships of mental health discrimination and stigma with housing and well-being outcomes in adults with mental illness and recent experience of homelessness29
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan29
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy29
“We're people of the snow:” Weather, climate change, and Inuit mental wellness29
An integrative method for analyzing spatial accessibility in the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system in China29
Is divisive politics making Americans sick? Associations of perceived partisan polarization with physical and mental health outcomes among adults in the United States29
Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines29
Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008–201729
Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning29
The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations28
Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?28
The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability28
Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic28
How information about race-based health disparities affects policy preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States27
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism27
Health tourism destinations as therapeutic landscapes: Understanding the health perceptions of senior seasonal migrants27
Two Indias: The structure of primary health care markets in rural Indian villages with implications for policy27
Associations between self-rated health and depressive symptoms among older adults: Does age matter?27
Beyond single sleep measures: A composite measure of sleep health and its associations with psychological and physical well-being in adulthood27
Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood27
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia27
Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities27
The urban public realm and adolescent mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review27
Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?27
Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study27
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada27
Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study27
Drivers of successful implementation of integrated care for multi-morbidity: Mechanisms identified in 17 case studies from 8 European countries27
State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study27
How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance27
Hospital response to a case-based payment scheme under regional global budget: The case of Guangzhou in China26
Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity26
Location-allocation modelling for rational health planning: Applying a two-step optimization approach to evaluate the spatial accessibility improvement of newly added tertiary hospitals in a metropoli26
Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation26
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway26
Mistrust in public health institutions is a stronger predictor of vaccine hesitancy and uptake than Trust in Trump26
Post-traumatic stress symptomatology and displacement among Hurricane Harvey survivors26
Waiting for the wave: Political leadership, policy windows, and alcohol policy change in Ireland26
Association between socioeconomic welfare and depression among older adults: Evidence from the China health and Retirement Longitudinal Study26
Spatial heterogeneity of the associations of economic and health care factors with infant mortality in China using geographically weighted regression and spatial clustering26
Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter26
The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality26
Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 202126
What are the challenges for antibiotic stewardship at the community level? An analysis of the drivers of antibiotic provision by informal healthcare providers in rural India26
Open access publishing – noble intention, flawed reality25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence25
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample25
Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine25
What makes AI ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care25
Integrating network theory into the study of integrated healthcare25
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach25
Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions25
Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa25
Supply-demand adjusted two-steps floating catchment area (SDA-2SFCA) model for measuring spatial access to health care25
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 people25
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study25
Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography25
Anticipating pride or regret? Effects of anticipated affect focused persuasive messages on intention to get vaccinated against COVID-1925
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