OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demographic Research is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates	45
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal	30
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature	28
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis	26
International completeness of death registration	25
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods	25
The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–2014	23
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?	20
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data	20
First reproductive experience: A survey module	20
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States	19
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel	18
Formatting the two-step gender measure: Experimental insights from the United States	18
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network	16
Should we be concerned about low fertility? A discussion of six possible arguments	16
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death	15
Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality	14
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database	14
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India	14
The power of inclusive labor force participation for mitigating population aging: Closing gaps at the intersection between race/ethnicity and gender in the United States	13
Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background	13
How do family transitions shape residential mobility among Quebec residents? Evidence on lagged, synchronous, and anticipatory effects by immigration status	13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa	13
Settlement intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Adhering to social status back home or restarting again abroad?	13
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation	12

Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic	11
Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures	11
Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents	11
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–2023	11
Housing changes of immigrants and their descendants using long-term census panel data from England and Wales	11
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard	11
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach	11
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 1918	10
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy	10
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions	10
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
Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century	10
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay	10
The groupwise decomposition: Estimating group-specific contributions to differences between demographic measures	9
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective	9
The ratio of births observed to births needed: An indicator to assess demographic sustainability	9
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020	9
On the momentum of pseudostable populations	9
A personal perspective on the history of the World Fertility Survey and The Demographic and Health Surveys Program: An interview with Tom Pullum	9
The surge in living alone among young and middle-aged adults: A decomposition analysis of the rise in one-person households in Germany, 1991 to 2021	9
Economic resources and parity among US women: A conjoint experiment on preferred family scenarios	9
Shifting spousal age gaps in Kenya and Ghana: Does education matter?	9
Racial classification as a multistate process	8
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden	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
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census	8
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers	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
Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration	8
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds	8
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea	8
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity	8
Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary	7
The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) dataset: Leave duration entitlements for 21 countries from 1970 to 2024	7
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood	7
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses	7
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it	7
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States	7
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability	7
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions	7
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach	7
The scale of transnational family separation: Evidence from the United Kingdom	7
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries	7
Collecting data on HIV/AIDS mortality during household surveys: A randomized validation study in Malawi	6
Changing roles of marriage and family status for labor migration? The case of rural China	6
Couple migration patterns, gender power relationships and later-life depression in China	6
Unrealized fertility in demography	6
Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition	6

A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland	6
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks	6
Does race response shift impact racial inequality?	6
Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany	6
Spatial perspective on environmental migration: Empirical insights from a spatiotemporal approach in the United States, 1970–2010	6
Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan	6
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education	6
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon	6
Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–2022	6