OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health & Place is 32. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban neighborhood factors influencing adolescent health and well-being: A qualitative study among adolescent boys in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands	142
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales	96
Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel	89
Reduction in the use of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health	85
‘This is where I can be myself’: places that enable flourishing in older age	70
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health	61
Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort	57
Examining the geographical distribution of air pollution disparities across different racial and ethnic groups: Incorporating workplace addresses	57
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites	55
Inside and outside the neighborhood: Short-term and long-term subjective well-being by geographical context	53
COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: Collective emotions and WASH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies	53
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians	47
Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails	46
Spatial accessibility and equity of residential care facilities in Beijing from 2010 to 2020	46
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–2021	45
How public open spaces co-construct solitary experiences in densely populated urban environments	43
“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma	43
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities	42
Mobile daily diaries to characterize stressors and acute health symptoms in an environmental justice neighborhood	40
Child and youth physical activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The changing role of the neighbourhood built and social environments	39
Perceived housing inadequacy and health: Cumulative and gendered effects beyond objective housing standards	39
Heatwaves and health vulnerabilities of older informal workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A qualitative study	39
Rapid review on healthy ageing interventions that incorporate action on climate change and sustainability in cities and communities	36
Highs, lows, and fault lines: The geography of suicide clusters in Ecuador	34
Labour will progress where māmā feel safe: Constructing birth-place decision making in primary birth centres	34

Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data	34
Hard-to-reach communities in the rural Ecuador: A qualitative perspective on dietary habits and physical activity	34
Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence	33
Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study	33
Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain	33
Does work-related and commuting physical activity predict changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the transition to retirement? GPS and accelerometer study	33
Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A structural equation modeling approach	32
Built environment in early life is linked to heterogeneous trajectories of loneliness from childhood to adolescence in the ABCD study	32
Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study	32