OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demographic Research is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
International completeness of death registration	38
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates	32
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature	31
Childbearing intentions among Egyptian men and women: The role of gender-equitable attitudes and women’s empowerment	30
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal	22
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel	20
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods	20
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States	19
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data	18
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions: The distinctive experience of sub-Saharan Africa	15
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network	15
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?	15
Accuracy of wives' proxy reports of husbands' fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa	15
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death	15
Migration and demographic disparities in macro-regions of the European Union, a view to 2060	14
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database	14
Healthy longevity from incidence-based models: More kinds of health than stars in the sky	14
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India	13
Diverse pathways in young Italians’ entrance into sexual life: The association with gender and birth cohort	13
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa	12
To what extent were life expectancy gains in South Africa attributable to declines in HIV/AIDS mortality from 2006 to 2017? A life table analysis of age-specific mortality	12
Who moves out and who keeps the home? Short-term and medium-term mobility consequences of grey divorce in Belgium	11
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach	11
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy	11

Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background	11
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020	11
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants’ and natives’ gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain	10
Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom	10
Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents	9
On the momentum of pseudostable populations	9
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 1918	9
Assessing the demographic impact of migration on the working-age population across European territories	9
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard	9
Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic	9
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay	9
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions	9
A dyadic approach to the study of perceived subfecundity and contraceptive use	9
Household transitions between ages 5 and 15 and educational outcomes: Fathers and grandparents in Peru	8
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective	8
Measuring the concentration of urban population in the negative exponential model using the Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, Hoover dissimilarity index, and relative entropy	8
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data	8
The formal demography of kinship III: Kinship dynamics with time-varying demographic rates	8
Dynamics of the coefficient of variation of the age at death distribution	8
The educational gradient in young singlehood: The role of gender and the gender climate	8
Early life patterns of criminal legal system involvement: Inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, and parental education	7
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea	7
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden	7
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity	7
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers	7
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds	7
Racial classification as a multistate process	7
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census	7
‘Silver splits’ in Europe: The role of grandchildren and other correlates	7
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions	7
Estimating mortality from census data: A record-linkage study of the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Burkina Faso	6
A survey of baby booms and busts in 20th century Spain	6
Internal migration and the de-standardization of the life course: A sequence analysis of reasons for migrating	6
Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?	6
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood	6
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it	6
The role of reductions in old-age mortality in old-age population growth	6
English fertility heads south: Understanding the recent decline	6
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education	6
Going "beyond the mean" in analysing immigrant health disparities	6
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States	6
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach	6
Increases in shared custody after divorce in the United States	6
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses	6
Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam	5
Gender differences in self-reported health and psychological distress among New Zealand adults	5
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon	5
A world apart: Levels and determinants of excess mortality due to COVID-19 in care homes: The case of the Belgian region of Wallonia during the spring 2020 wave	5
Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death	5
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability	5

Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition	5
Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany	5
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland	5
Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–2022	5
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries	5
Does race response shift impact racial inequality?	5
Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan	5
Union formation under conditions of uncertainty: The objective and subjective sides of employment uncertainty	5
The quality of fertility data in the web-based Generations and Gender Survey	5