OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Sweden 2020–2021: A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) study	92
Lifestyle factors as predictors of incident functional somatic disorder. Five-year follow-up of The DanFunD study	80
Health promoting schools and COVID-19: preparing for the future	35
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 2018	31
Adolescent friendships and their impact on self-rated health in early adulthood. A prospective cohort study	31
Municipality-level differences in disability retirement in Finland: The contribution of local social characteristics	26
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden	23
Trends in health behaviour indicators between 1987 and 2023 among adults in the general population in Denmark	22
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century	20
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees	19
Solving the housing crisis in Nunavut, Canada	18
Smoking among immigrants in Norway: a cross-sectional study	18
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?	17
Non-response bias in the Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey: Insights from linkage to register data	16
Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health	16
Men’s lifetime interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalization at the national level: Results from a New Zealand population-based study	16
Systematic reviews: A glossary for public health	16
Overview of health research in Greenland from 2001 to 2020	16
The relationship between online communication and adolescents’ mental health: Long-term evaluation between genders	16
Planning for health equity in the crossfire between science and policy	16
Reflections on co-creating a model for the value assessment of artificial intelligence technologies	14
Implementation of an integrated community approach in deprived neighbourhoods: a theory-based process evaluation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)	14
Are changes in perceived physical workload and strenuousness of work among partial disability pensioners associated with full disability pension?	14
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research	14
Time trends and predictors of difficulties in getting to sleep among adolescents from six Nordic countries 2002–2018	14

Hazardous alcohol consumption and problem drinking in Norwegian and Russian women and men: The Tromsø Study 2015–2016 and the Know Your Heart study 2015–2018	13
Correlation between country-level numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortalities, and country-level characteristics: A global study	13
Occupational health patients’ parallel use of primary- and secondary-care services and linkage to work disability: A follow-up study in Finland	13
Average lifespan variation among people with mental disorders in Denmark: a nationwide, register-based cohort study	12
Alcohol norms and alcohol intake among high school students	12
The road from knowledge to change – pandemics, diversity and social inequality declaration, Bergen 2022	12
Associations of breastfeeding duration with serum lipid values from infancy until age 20 years – the STRIP study	12
Agribusiness and the COVID-19 syndemic: The unsustainable pathways	12
Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway	11
Increasing inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults in Sweden 2002–2014	11
Effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown period on general well-being, perceived stress and activity levels in the Faroe Islands	11
Low vitamin D levels among children and adolescents in an Arctic population	11
Influenza risk groups in Norway by education and employment status	11
How to approach sustainability in general practice: a workshop experience with a qualitative analysis amongst general practitioners in Denmark	11
Using the Triangle of Human Ecology for understanding self-rated depression: a quantitative study based on the HUNT 3 cohort	11
Recreational screen media use among Danish children aged 6–11 years: influence of parental screen media habits and attitudes	10
A snapshot of an eCohort: A comparison of the LifeGene population at baseline with the Swedish general population	10
Return to work: does cardiac rehabilitation make a difference? Danish nationwide register-based study	10
Milder disease trajectory among COVID-19 patients hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant compared with the Delta variant in Norway	10
Assessing the long-term health impact of COVID-19: The importance of using self-reported health measures	10
Underlying pathways of social inequality in tooth loss: The mediating role of sugary beverages and diabetes	9
Food insecurity in Norway: A cross-sectional study among patients visiting their general practitioner	9
Different types of screen time are associated with low life satisfaction in adolescents across 37 European and North American countries	9
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study	9
The West Jutland Tele-Electrocardiogram Registry (WEJU-tECG): content, data quality, and research potential	9
Swedish women reaching post-traumatic growth after an intimate partner violence relationship: A study of formal help and growth after trauma	9
Trust in scientific institutions and experts during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland	9
Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking	8
Norwegian adolescents’ use of energy drinks and painkillers and misuse of prescription drugs prior to and during the initial COVID-19 pandemic year: Evidence from the MyLife study	8
Strict Danes or relaxed Swedes? Comparing health and daily activities in Sweden and Denmark during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Collaborative strategies in the fight against non-communicable diseases: Shaping a healthier future with PreventNCD	8
Identifying individuals with complex and long-term health-care needs using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups System: A comparison of data from primary and specialist health care	8
Continued increasing social inequality in mortality in Denmark – a nationwide register-based follow-up on previous mortality studies	7
Meaningfulness and mortality: exploring the sense of coherence in Eastern Finnish men	7
How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Payment problems and suicide: life under financial strain	7
Narcotic offences and drug use disorders among young refugees in Norway	7
Evaluation framework for the Joint Action PreventNCD: A comprehensive approach for a complex and multi-layered public health project	7
Changes in mortality trends amongst common diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden	7
Study design of ‘Move More’: Development and feasibility of a social-prescribing intervention to increase physical activity among inactive Danes	7
Family Partner: study protocol for a pilot randomised study of a home-visitation intervention in Norway	7
Prenatal and early childhood predictors of intelligence quotient (IQ) in 7-year-old Danish children from the Odense Child Cohort	7
Healthcare leaders’ perceptions of the contribution of artificial intelligence to person-centred care: An interview study	7
Is mental health problems measurement equivalent across disability, gender, age, and cohort in children? Findings from a Swedish national survey	6
Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?	6
My 15-month rollercoaster ride with COVID-19: A social epidemiologist’s perspective	6
Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews	6
Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden	6
Early career demanding psychosocial work environment and severe back pain and neck/shoulder pain in experienced nurses: A cohort study	6
Algorithm for forming hospital care episodes by combining attendance contacts in the Danish National Patient Register: A methodological consensus-driven study	6

Socioeconomic inequalities in sexual victimisation in a nationally representative sample of the Swedish population	6
The seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) 2015–2016: study design, data collection, attendance, and prevalence of risk factors and disease in a multipurpose population-based health survey	6
Children as next of kin’s experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010–2022)	6
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centers – research and directions for future work	6
Physical activity levels before and after the COVID-19 restrictions among Danish adolescents: a retrospective cohort study	6
Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register	6
The influence of selective mortality on poverty rates in later life: evidence from a Swedish cohort born in 1926	6
Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among professional orchestra musicians in Norway	6
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study	6
Pedestrian wintertime slip and fall injuries—effectiveness of weather warning service in prevention	6
The aftermath of COVID-19: Mortality impact of the pandemic on older persons in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2020–2023	6
The protective effects of Swedish COVID-19 pandemic strategies on adolescents’ mental health: a longitudinal cohort study	6
Intimate partner violence and negative health consequences: A cross-sectional study among women in a regional sample in Sweden	6
Effect of replacing television viewing with different intensities of physical activity on COVID-19 mortality risk: Short communication from UK Biobank	6
Copenhagen City Heart Study. An epidemiological cohort study with repeated measurements: history, course, and results	6
The specialty of social medicine and public health in Sweden: Challenges and future directions	6
Health risks among long-term immigrants in Norway with poor Norwegian language proficiency	5
Discrimination and health: A cross-sectional study comparing Muslims with other-religious groups	5
Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation	5
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes	5
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 2021	5
Perceived social support and symptoms of depression and anxiety in emerging adulthood: A Swedish prospective cohort study	5
What is a sustainable diet in the Norwegian context?	5
Do community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older have someone to rely on for help when needed? A Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)	5
Human health risk assessment of heavy metals from meat and offal of reindeer and cow in the Far North of European Russia	5
Digitizing paper-based military health records from Norwegian males born in 1950 – Assessments of data quality and applicability in research	5
Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage	5
Psychosomatic complaints are indicative of stress in young individuals: findings from a Swedish national cohort study	5
Occupational stress among Norwegian physicians: A literature review of long-term prospective studies 2007–2019	5
SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalisations among immigrants in Norway-significance of occupation, household crowding, education, household income and medical risk: a nationwide register study	5
Health at age 17 in Norwegian adolescents: Mental and physical status in the national cohort born in 2001	5
A nation-wide study on snus and smoked tobacco: The Swedish Tobacco Cohort (SWETOC)	5
Changes in loneliness prevalence in Denmark in the 21st century: Age-period-cohort analysis	5
Production losses from morbidity and mortality by disease, age and sex in Norway	5
Does who you live with matter for your health? The influence of partners’ socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health in Norway	5
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-19	5
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand	5
The age structure of cases as the key of COVID-19 severity: Longitudinal population-based analysis of European countries during 150 days	5
Awareness of having hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia among US adults: The 2011–2018 NHANES data	5
Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers	5
Health and social care staff’s recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study	5
Projected health benefits of air pollution reductions in a Swedish population	5
Do adoption age and country of origin matter for non-kin adoptees’ risk of psychiatric contact and post-adoption out-of-home care placement?	5
Study protocol for 5Ways@School – An implementation and effectiveness trial of a school-based wellbeing intervention in 16 schools in Norway	5
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, 18–19 October 2022, Hamar, Norway	5
Associations between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and urticaria: a nationwide registry-based cohort study in Denmark	4
Bridging discourses on health promotion and social sustainability towards healthy community development	4
National and education-specific trends in life and health expectancies in Denmark 2004–2015	4
The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Is being a refugee associated with increased 30-day mortality after visiting the emergency department? A register-based cohort study using Danish data	4
Are universal measures sufficient in reducing child poverty in the Nordic countries? An analysis of policies and political commitments	4
Trends in social inequality in breastfeeding duration in Denmark 2002–2019	4
Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria	4
A decade of socioeconomic inequality in type 2 diabetes area-level prevalence: an unshakeable status quo?	4
Designing the first culturally-sensitive stigma survey tailored for adolescents: RN-CSS	4
20-Year trends in the social participation of the oldest old	4
The Children of Risk Communication	4
Defining and distinguishing early life stress, trauma, adversity, toxic and chronic stress and allostatic load: a descriptive review	4
The organisation and responsibility for care for older people in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: outline and comparison of care systems	4
Young doctors’ attrition and retention in the GP scheme: a national cohort study from Norway	4
Personalised risk-stratified approaches in prevention of cancer and other NCDs: The Joint Action PreventNCD project	4
Total patient load, regional disparities and in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, from September 2020 to May 2021	4
COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study	4
Validation of the short version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for adolescents in Norway	4
The Parent Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ-Parent). Adaptation and validity testing with parents of children with epilepsy	4
Validity of chronic disease diagnoses in Icelandic healthcare registries	4
Oral health promotion and labour market prospects of socially disadvantaged and unemployed people – a randomised controlled trial	4
Compositional characteristics of neighbourhoods and of schools as correlates of youths’ mental health: A cross-sectional study among Swedish adolescents	4
Sweden’s excess mortality in 2020–2022 and reporting in the media	4
Contribution of smoking change to 45-year trend in prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Finland	4
Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies	4
Arts and culture engagement and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study	4
Association of school neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and teaching staff’s risk of violence at work	4
The relation between economic stressors and higher education students’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The concept of disease in the Norwegian National Insurance Court	4
Mental-health profiling with person-centred analysis: A study of adolescents in Sweden	4
Immigration status and other explanatory factors associated with place of death – a population-based register study	4
‘Everything turned upside down’: A thematic analysis of adolescents’ experiences of everyday life during COVID-19 restrictions	4