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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests1803
How and why patients made Long Covid578
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review382
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study362
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents340
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19311
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective266
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic196
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review171
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities158
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors129
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review119
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review115
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?109
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis107
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis106
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies103
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework102
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions101
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China98
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers94
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults91
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 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility75
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis75
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion74
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation72
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review71
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
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 t69
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries69
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom65
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation64
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
Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US59
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis57
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach57
Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-1956
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
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college54
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions53
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors53
Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review53
Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control53
Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach52
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods52
Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents52
Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care51
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
Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak49
Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic48
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 Africa48
An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration48
The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study47
Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?47
Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels46
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era46
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
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review46
The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil45
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
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases45
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States44
Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach44
Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review44
Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents44
Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review44
The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies44
The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID43
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities43
A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries43
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries43
Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends43
“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience42
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation42
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A field experiment in India42
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
Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression41
Power and the people's health41
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?41
The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data41
Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender40
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–201740
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review40
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women40
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
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe39
The impact of food insecurity on mental health in Africa: A systematic review39
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Modelling of COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases: A Baseline Socio-economic Compartmental Model39
Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents39
Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables39
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
“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare38
Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries38
Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments38
“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination38
Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them38
Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping38
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
Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID1937
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification37
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
Why does abortion stigma matter? A scoping review and hybrid analysis of qualitative evidence illustrating the role of stigma in the quality of abortion care37
Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia37
Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?36
The limitations of patient-centered care: The case of early long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal36
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence36
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass36
Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers36
Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review36
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis35
Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life34
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
Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China34
Syndemic theory, methods, and data34
COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America33
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review33
Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets33
Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade33
Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country32
Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework32
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
Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience32
Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands32
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 metropoli32
Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic32
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
Longitudinal interrelationships of mental health discrimination and stigma with housing and well-being outcomes in adults with mental illness and recent experience of homelessness31
Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study31
The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings31
Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood31
Two Indias: The structure of primary health care markets in rural Indian villages with implications for policy31
Associations between self-rated health and depressive symptoms among older adults: Does age matter?31
Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise31
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia31
The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health31
Distributive justice in environmental health hazards from industrial contamination: A systematic review of national and near-national assessments of social inequalities31
Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?31
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral31
The effects of India's COVID-19 lockdown on critical non-COVID health care and outcomes: Evidence from dialysis patients30
Linked fate and mental health among African Americans30
No new fast-food outlets allowed! Evaluating the effect of planning policy on the local food environment in the North East of England30
The mental health effects of a Universal Basic Income: A synthesis of the evidence from previous pilots30
Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment30
The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities30
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa30
Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities30
Effectiveness of nudges as a tool to promote adherence to guidelines in healthcare and their organizational implications: A systematic review30
Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review30
Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines29
The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers29
Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning29
“Am I really alive?”: Understanding the role of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in young LGBT+ people's suicidal distress29
How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance29
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
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
Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans29
Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity28
The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations28
Jab my arm, not my morality: Perceived moral reproach as a barrier to COVID-19 vaccine uptake28
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway28
Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission28
The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability28
The urban public realm and adolescent mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review27
Gender-related differences in the relationship between social and activity participation and health and subjective well-being in later life27
How information about race-based health disparities affects policy preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States27
The relationship between rural to urban migration in China and risk of depression in later life: An investigation of life course effects27
Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study27
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
Beyond single sleep measures: A composite measure of sleep health and its associations with psychological and physical well-being in adulthood27
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada27
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
Drivers of successful implementation of integrated care for multi-morbidity: Mechanisms identified in 17 case studies from 8 European countries27
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
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 India27
Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities27
Stigma and blame related to COVID-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada26
The crafting of hope: Contextualising add-ons in the treatment trajectories of IVF patients26
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
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
Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 202126
Hospital response to a case-based payment scheme under regional global budget: The case of Guangzhou in China26
The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality26
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 people26
Household overcrowding trajectories and mental well-being25
Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-1925
Beyond rationality: Expanding the practice of shared decision making in modern medicine25
Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine25
Supply-demand adjusted two-steps floating catchment area (SDA-2SFCA) model for measuring spatial access to health care25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence25
Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions25
Neoliberal discourse, actor power, and the politics of nutrition policy: A qualitative analysis of informal challenges to nutrition labelling regulations at the World Trade Organization, 2007–201925
Community engagement and vulnerability in infectious diseases: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of the literature25
Social connectedness as a mediator for horticultural therapy's biological effect on community-dwelling older adults: Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial25
Anticipating pride or regret? Effects of anticipated affect focused persuasive messages on intention to get vaccinated against COVID-1925
Open access publishing – noble intention, flawed reality25
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach25
Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography25
Individual and community social capital, mobility restrictions, and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel analysis of a representative US survey25
Shelter in place? Depends on the place: Corruption and social distancing in American states25
Using the concept of activity space to understand the social health of older adults living with memory problems and dementia at home25
The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy between maternal engagement with anti- and pro-vaccine social media posts and adolescent HPV-vaccine uptake rates in the US: The perspective of loss aversion in25
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
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study25
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample25
A spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus frames in a rural midwestern town in the United States24
Dynamic relationships between different types of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protective behaviour: A four-wave panel study in Poland24
Light at the end of the tunnel: Influence of vaccine availability and vaccination intention on people’s consideration of the COVID-19 vaccine24
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study24
The transgender-specific intimate partner violence scale for research and practice: Validation in a sample of transgender women24
Conceptualizing the digitalization of healthcare work: A metaphor-based Critical Interpretive Synthesis24
Associations between childhood adversities and late-life cognitive function: Potential mechanisms24
The use of Latinx in public health research when referencing Hispanic or Latino populations24
Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging24
Psychosocial trajectories before and after spousal loss: Does gender matter?24
The built environment and mental health among older adults in Dalian: The mediating role of perceived environmental attributes24
Applying an extended protection motivation theory to predict Covid-19 vaccination intentions and uptake in 50–64 year olds in the UK24
The violence of uncertainty: Empirical evidence on how asylum waiting time undermines refugee health24
Body mass and the epidemic of chronic inflammation in early mid-adulthood23
“I don't know what home feels like anymore”: Residential spaces and the absence of ontological security for people returning from incarceration23
The Cultivation of Digital Health Citizenship23
Eating-related pathology at the intersection of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and weight status: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminat23
Caring as curing: Grandparenting and depressive symptoms in China23
Factors associated with medical help-seeking for infertility in developed countries: A narrative review of recent literature23
Inequalities of spatial primary healthcare accessibility in China23
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