OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Ageing is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	102
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	59
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	54
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	49
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	42
Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans	42
Online assessment of cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan using the eCOGTEL: a reliable alternative to laboratory testing	42
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	35
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	33
Individual vitality changes over 20 years among aging adults, using predefined and data-driven patterns: the Doetinchem Cohort Study	30
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	27
Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden	26
The link between vision impairment and depressive symptomatology in late life: does having a partner matter?	25
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	23
The influence of sociodemographic factors and close relatives at hospital discharge and post hospital care of older people with complex care needs: nurses’ perceptions on health inequity in three Nord	22
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	22
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	21
The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis	20
The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts	20
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	20
Correction to: Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	19
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	18
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	17
Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	16
The impact of providing intensive care and practical help in mid-life on employment transitions in Europe	16

Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	15
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	15
Informal care-giving and the intention to give up employment: the role of perceived supervisor behaviour in a cohort of German employees	14
Correction: Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	14
The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life	14
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	14
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	13
Time trend of overweight and obesity prevalence among older people in Brazilian State Capitals and the Federal District from 2006 to 2019	13
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	13
The hidden crisis: classifying unmet healthcare needs in European older adults during COVID-19	13
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	13
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	13
Measurement invariance of a general cognitive performance measure across 27 European countries and Israel	13
Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	13
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	12
Aging during COVID-19 in Germany: a longitudinal analysis of psychosocial adaptation	12
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	12
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	12
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	11
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	11
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland	11
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	11
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	11
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	10
Relationships among inner strength, health and function, well-being, and negative life events in old people: a longitudinal study	10
Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study	9
Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	9
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	9
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore	9
Economic vulnerability and unmet healthcare needs among the population aged 50 + years during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	9
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	9
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	9
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	9
Employee perception of managers’ attitudes towards older workers is associated with risk of loss of paid work before state pension age: prospective cohort study with register follow-up	8
Comparing the cross-national impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care received by community-dwelling older adults in 2020 and 2021: restoring formal home care versus polarizing informal care?	8
Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study	8
Correction: The role of semantic assessment in the differential diagnosis between late‑life depression and Alzheimer’s disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta‑analysi	8
Impact of age-related stereotype threat on subjective age, awareness of age-related change, and physical performance in older adults	8
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing	8
Do we all perceive experiences of age discrimination in the same way? Cross-cultural differences in perceived age discrimination and its association with life satisfaction	7
Change over time in characteristics and survival of residents newly admitted to nursing homes: an analysis of health insurance claims data from 2011 to 2020 in Germany	7
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	7
The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data	7
Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial	7
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	7
“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future	7
Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	7
The role of semantic assessment in the differential diagnosis between late-life depression and Alzheimer’s disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	7

A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	6
Internet use and cognitive frailty in older adults: a large-scale multidimensional approach	6
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	6
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences	6
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	6
Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health	6
Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	6
Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam	6
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	6
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	6
Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes	5
Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes	5
Investigating the influence of work-related stress on early labour market exit: the role of health	5
“If this is what it means to be old…”: a mixed methods study on the effects of age simulation on views on aging and perceptions of age-related impairments	5
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	5
Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review	5
Socio-economic differences in receiving care by the over-80s in Germany and England: intensity of care needs as a moderator	5
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	5
The role of impaired vision and declined cognition in falls and fall-related risk factors among older people receiving home care in Finland—a cross-sectional register study	5
Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands	5
Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study	5
Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity	5
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden	5
Aging-related fears and their associations with ideal life expectancy	5
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	5
Older adults’ mentioned practices for coping with loneliness	4
The association between widowhood duration and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: mediation role of sleeping duration and dietary diversity	4
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	4
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age	4
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults	4
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	4
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	4
Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	4
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries	4
Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe	4
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	4
Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age	4
Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets	4
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	3
Perceived deterioration in health status among older adults in Europe and Israel following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	3
Perceived neighbourhood environment and falls among community-dwelling adults: cross-sectional and prospective findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)	3
Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults	3
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	3
Grandparenting, health, and well-being: a systematic literature review	3
Measuring relatives’ perceptions of end-of-life communication with physicians in five countries: a psychometric analysis	3
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	3
Care provision and social participation among older adults in Europe: longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing	3
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	3
Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age	3