OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health & Place is 30. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities	90
Assessing potential benefits of visits to neighborhoods with higher tree canopy coverage using mobility data: Associations with cardiovascular health outcomes in twenty US metropolitan areas	67
Urban green spaces, self-rated air pollution and health: A sensitivity analysis of green space characteristics and proximity in four European cities	64
Disparities in spatiotemporal clustering of maternal mental health conditions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	61
Analysis of the impact of financial and labour uncertainty on suicide mortality in England	60
Nature as a therapeutic place and tool for enhancing service users’ engagement in mental health services: A comprehensive synthesis of evidence	58
Neighborhood mobility and racial disparities in preterm birth: A sibling study in California	47
Neighborhood environments underpin screen time intervention success in children: Evidence from a study of greenspace and community programming across 130 US communities	47
Green space and cardiovascular health in people with type 2 diabetes	46
The impact of outdoor blue spaces on the health of the elderly: A systematic review	44
Powering well-being: Energy independence and mental health in a zone of ongoing disasters	43
A comprehensive GPS-based analysis of activity spaces in early and late pregnancy using the ActMAP framework	42
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites	41
The distribution of harmful product marketing in public outdoor spaces and the effectiveness of marketing bans	40
Affordable and enjoyable health shopping: Commodified therapeutic landscapes for older people in China’s urban open spaces	39
Neighborhood walkability, neighborhood social health, and self-selection among U.S. adults	37
Socioeconomic inequalities in distance to and participation in a community-based running and walking activity: A longitudinal ecological study of parkrun 2010 to 2019	37
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries: The World Health Organization Study on Global Aging and Adult Health	35
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–2021	34
Associations between neighborhood built-environment characteristics and hepatic steatosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	34
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health	34
Energy poverty and health inequalities in Barcelona: A cross-sectional trends study in the context of COVID-19, energy crisis and climate change, 2016–2021	34
Urban health advantage or urban health penalty? Urban-rural disparities in age trajectories of physiological health among Chinese middle-aged and older women and men	34
(Un-) healthy ageing: Geographic inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in England and Wales	33
Intersections of race, gender and the drug economy: Placing drugs in HIV discussions in Brazil	33

Designing environments that contribute to a reduction in the progression of Parkinson's disease; a literature review	32
Citizen science in the community: Gaining insight in community and participant health in four deprived neighbourhoods in the Netherlands	32
Exercise facility availability and incidence of type 2 diabetes and complications in Spain: A population-based retrospective cohort 2015–2018	32
Editorial Board	32
Linking pathogens, people and places: Using geo-ethnography to understand place-based, socio-economic inequalities in gastrointestinal infections in the UK	31
The Older Persons' Index of Multiple Deprivation: Measuring the deprivation circumstances of older populations in Aotearoa New Zealand	30