OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal for Equity in Health is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19	305
Urban poverty and nutrition challenges associated with accessibility to a healthy diet: a global systematic literature review	133
A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States	94
Assessing healthcare access using the Levesque’s conceptual framework– a scoping review	93
The effect of COVID-19 on maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) services in Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa: call for a contextualised pandemic response in LMICs	92
A hidden side of the COVID-19 pandemic in children: the double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition	86
Inequality in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine: a systematic review	81
Breastfeeding at the workplace: a systematic review of interventions to improve workplace environments to facilitate breastfeeding among working women	74
Impact of breastfeeding interventions among United States minority women on breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review	72
Socioeconomic inequalities in primary-care and specialist physician visits: a systematic review	72
Income-related health inequalities associated with the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa: A decomposition analysis	70
Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	65
Equity and efficiency of health care resource allocation in Jiangsu Province, China	61
The convergence of racial and income disparities in health insurance coverage in the United States	55
Maternal education and equity in breastfeeding: trends and patterns in 81 low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2019	51
Understanding inequities in health and health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: a thematic series	50
Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America	49
Promoting the health of refugee women: a scoping literature review incorporating the social ecological model	48
Cultural determinants of health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – a narrative overview of reviews	47
Decolonising qualitative research with respectful, reciprocal, and responsible research practice: a narrative review of the application of Yarning method in qualitative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is	45
Towards health equity for people experiencing chronic pain and social marginalization	43
Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice	43
Assessing burden, risk factors, and perceived impact of uterine fibroids on women’s lives in rural Haiti: implications for advancing a health equity agenda, a mixed methods study	42
Exploring country-wide equitable government health care facility access in Uganda	42
Iran health insurance system in transition: equity concerns and steps to achieve universal health coverage	41

The World Health Organization COVID-19 surveillance database	39
‘Doing’ or ‘using’ intersectionality? Opportunities and challenges in incorporating intersectionality into knowledge translation theory and practice	39
Inequalities in antenatal care coverage and quality: an analysis from 63 low and middle-income countries using the ANCq content-qualified coverage indicator	37
Pandemic inequalities: emerging infectious diseases and health equity	37
Socioeconomic gradient in COVID-19 vaccination: evidence from Israel	35
Intersectionality and health-related stigma: insights from experiences of people living with stigmatized health conditions in Indonesia	34
An intersectional analysis providing more precise information on inequities in self-rated health	34
Changing men or changing health systems? A scoping review of interventions, services and programmes targeting men’s health in sub-Saharan Africa	33