Social Science & Medicine

Article	Citations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests	1011
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	635
How and why patients made Long Covid	484
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review	331
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study	331
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents	316
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19	289
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue	266
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective	254
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults	249
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 epidemic	245
The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review	223
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries	186
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic	183
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities	143
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review	126
Racial discrimination and child and adolescent health in longitudinal studies: A systematic review	121
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19	117
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors	114
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis	113
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions	99
Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research	98
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment	96
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?	93
Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine	91

The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis	90
Excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: Early evidence from England and Wales	85
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers	85
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review	84
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China	80
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States	79
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany	78
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults	77
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework	76
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis	74
Formal social participation protects physical health through enhanced mental health: A longitudinal mediation analysis using three consecutive waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in E	71
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism	70
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions	69
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion	68
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries	68
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China	67
Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers	67
Gender and secular trends in adolescent mental health over 24 years – The role of school-related stress	66
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies	64
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.	64
Long Covid – The illness narratives	62
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility	61
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries	59
“We are fierce, independent thinkers and intelligent”: Social capital and stigma management among mothers who refuse vaccines	59
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic	59
Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings	58
Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment	58
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom	56
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries	56
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review	56
Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease	55
Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami	55
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature	55
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States	54
Does long-term care insurance reduce hospital utilization and medical expenditures? Evidence from China	53
Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis	53
‘I am the master key that opens and locks’: Presentation and application of a conceptual framework for women's and girls' empowerment in reproductive health	52
The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach	52
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation	52
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 t	52
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Intergenerational communities: A systematic literature review of intergenerational interactions and older adults’ health-related outcomes	52
Stunted from the start: Early life weather conditions and child undernutrition in Ethiopia	51
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work	51
Time of pandemic: Temporal perspectives related to compliance with public health regulations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic	50
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions	49
Social factors and worry associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a large survey in China	48
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach	48
Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US	47
Normalised pain and severe health care delay among people who inject drugs in London: Adapting cultural safety principles to promote care	47

Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19	47
Economic complexity and health outcomes: A global perspective	46
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review	45
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities	45
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis	45
Transgender stigma: A critical scoping review of definitions, domains, and measures used in empirical research	44
Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents	44
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era	43
The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil	43
Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak	43
Economic growth, income inequality and life expectancy in China	43
Mechanisms connecting objective and subjective poverty to mental health: Serial mediation roles of negative life events and social support	43
Gendered syndemic of intimate partner violence, alcohol misuse, and HIV risk among peri-urban, heterosexual men in South Africa	43
Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?	43
The structural vulnerability of healthcare workers during COVID-19: Observations on the social context of risk and the equitable distribution of resources	43
Changing emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China	42
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors	42
Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college	41
Psychosocial consequences of transitioning into informal caregiving in male and female caregivers: Findings from a population-based panel study	41
Confidence in social institutions, perceived vulnerability and the adoption of recommended protective behaviors in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach	40
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A field experiment in India	40
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors	39
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	39
Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments	38
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States	38
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	38
Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities: A systematic review of observational studies in high-income countries	38
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases	38
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review	38
Rethinking One Health: Emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages	38
Do personal health concerns and trust in healthcare providers mitigate privacy concerns? Effects on patients’ intention to share personal health data on electronic health records	37
Power and the people's health	37
HPV Vaccine Promotion: The church as an agent of change	37
Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends	37
Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China	37
Area level deprivation and monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of government policy in England	37
Spatial patterns and social-economic influential factors of population aging: A global assessment from 1990 to 2010	36
Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?	36
Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review	36
Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach	36
Unintended consequences of institutionalizing peer support work in mental healthcare	35
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 EAT	35
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	35
The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data	35
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples’ relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany	35
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 status	34
Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables	34
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	34
The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID	34
Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents	34
The contested meaning of “long COVID” – Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence	34
The long-term financial and psychological resettlement outcomes of pre-migration trauma and post-settlement difficulties in resettled refugees	34
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review	34
“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination	34
Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control	33
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities	33
Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments	33
Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID19	32
Health in widowhood: The roles of social capital and economic resources	32
Frailty and depression: Reciprocal influences or common causes?	32
The effect of California's paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study	32
Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender	32
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women	32
Changes in population movement make COVID-19 spread differently from SARS	32
Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels	32
The impact of food insecurity on mental health in Africa: A systematic review	32
An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”	32
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Modelling of COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases: A Baseline Socio-economic Compartmental Model	31
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification	31
Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories	31
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries	31
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe	31
Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries	31
Perceived social support and health-related quality of life in older adults who have multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a dyadic analysis	31
Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience	31
Life-course trajectories of employment quality and health in the U.S.: A multichannel sequence analysis	31
Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country	31
Alcohol use and the COVID-19 pandemic: Historical trends in drinking, contexts, and reasons for use among U.S. adults	31

Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19	31
Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review	31
A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries	31
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation	31
COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America	31
“The state They're in”: Unpicking fantasy paradigms of health improvement interventions as tools for addressing health inequalities	31
The double-edged sword of digital self-care: Physician perspectives from Northern Germany	31
Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers	30
The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study	30
Engagement in leisure activities and depression in older adults in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	30
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence	30
“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 epidemic	30
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals	30
An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration	30
Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets	30
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review	30
“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience	30
Minority stress and health: A grounded theory exploration among men who have sex with men in China and implications for health research and interventions	29
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of U.S. vital statistics data from 2009 to 2018	29
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy	29
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.	29
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?	29
Applying an intersectional framework to understand syndemic conditions among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	29
The mediating role of constructs representing reasoned-action and automatic processes on the past behavior-future behavior relationship	29
Perceptions and experiences of stigma among parents of children with developmental disorders in Ethiopia: A qualitative study	28
Perceived pathways between tourism gentrification and health: A participatory Photovoice study in the Gòtic neighborhood in Barcelona	28
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review	28
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana	28
Relationship between costs and clinical benefits of new cancer medicines in Australia, France, the UK, and the US	28
Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008–2017	28
“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare	28
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	28
Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents	28
Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life	28
Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise	28
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–2017	28
Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia	28
Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines	27
“Talk about it:” changing masculinities and mental health in rural places?	27
Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia	27
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan	27
Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care	27
An integrative method for analyzing spatial accessibility in the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system in China	27
Determinants of non-prescription antibiotic dispensing in Chinese community pharmacies from socio-ecological and health system perspectives	27
Does community-level social capital mitigate the impact of widowhood & living alone on depressive symptoms?: A prospective, multi-level study	27
Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them	27
Examining the associations between oral health and social isolation: A cross-national comparative study between Japan and England	27
The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	27
Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review	26
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa	26
Cross-sectional associations of neighborhood third places with social health among community-dwelling older adults	26
Inequalities in life expectancy: An analysis of 201 countries, 1950–2015	26
Psychological distress by age at migration and duration of residence in Sweden	26
Associations of religiosity, attitudes towards suicide and religious coping with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in 11 muslim countries	26
Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression	26
Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands	26
Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?	26
Personality and self-rated health across eight cohort studies	26
Social contact, social support, and cognitive health in a population-based study of middle-aged and older men and women in rural South Africa	26
Household energy insecurity: dimensions and consequences for women, infants and children in low- and middle-income countries	25
Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study	25
Understanding integrated care at the frontline using organisational learning theory: A participatory evaluation of multi-professional teams in East London	25
Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission	25
Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework	25
Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans	25
County-level jail incarceration and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and white U.S. women, 1999–2015	25
The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations	25
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis	25
Media guidelines and suicide: A critical review	24
Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?	24
Examining associations of food insecurity with major depression among older adults in the wake of the Great Recession	24
Lifestyle behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being: A daily diary study	24
Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities	24
Linked fate and mental health among African Americans	24
The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities	24
Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa	24
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 in	24
The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers	24
Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study	24
‘Problem patients and physicians’ failures': What it means for doctors to counsel vaccine hesitant patients in Switzerland	24
Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?	24
State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study	23
The effects of India's COVID-19 lockdown on critical non-COVID health care and outcomes: Evidence from dialysis patients	23
Beyond single sleep measures: A composite measure of sleep health and its associations with psychological and physical well-being in adulthood	23
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the “Women Empowered” approach	23
Spatial heterogeneity of the associations of economic and health care factors with infant mortality in China using geographically weighted regression and spatial clustering	23
Waiting for the wave: Political leadership, policy windows, and alcohol policy change in Ireland	23
How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance	23
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study	23
Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping	23
Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey	23
Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine	23
The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings	23
Childhood vaccinations and adult schooling attainment: Long-term evidence from India's Universal Immunization Programme	23
Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities	23