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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards bridging the grey digital divide: changes in internet access and its predictors from 2002 to 2014 in Germany	63
Understanding unequal ageing: towards a synthesis of intersectionality and life course analyses	59
Care in times of COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic on informal caregiving in Austria	36
A research framework for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030)	35
Depression and loneliness of older adults in Europe and Israel after the first wave of covid-19	35
Covid-fatigued? A longitudinal study of Norwegian older adults’ psychosocial well-being before and during early and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Access to healthcare for people aged 50+ in Europe during the COVID-19 outbreak	29
Ageism and older people’s health and well-being during the Covid-19-pandemic: the moderating role of subjective aging	28
Media representation of older people’s vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	27
Revisiting the Nordic long-term care model for older people—still equal?	26
Economic vulnerability and unmet healthcare needs among the population aged 50 + years during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	26
Loneliness in mid-life and older adults from ethnic minority communities in England and Wales: measure validation and prevalence estimates	23
Grandparenting, health, and well-being: a systematic literature review	23
Depression and quality of life in old age: a closer look	23
Young for old—old for young? Ethical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity and responsibility in public discourses on COVID-19	22
Physically distant but socially close? Changes in non-physical intergenerational contacts at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people in France, Italy and Spain	21
Perceived loneliness and the role of cultural and intergenerational belonging: the case of Portuguese first-generation immigrants in Luxembourg	19
Psychological resilience and active aging among older people with mobility limitations	19
Older Chinese migrants in coronavirus pandemic: exploring risk and protective factors to increased loneliness	18
Using the intergenerational solidarity framework to understand the grandparent–grandchild relationship: a scoping review	17
Live longer, retire later? Developments of healthy life expectancies and working life expectancies between age 50–59 and age 60–69 in Europe	16
Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe	15
Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans	15
Older migrants and loneliness: scanning the field and looking forward	15
Social network ties before and after retirement: a cohort study	14

Current directions in views on ageing	12
A poor appetite or ability to eat and its association with physical function amongst community-dwelling older adults: age, gene/environment susceptibility-Reykjavik study	12
Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	11
Ageing in place processes in the neighbourhood environment: a proposed conceptual framework from a capability approach	11
A social exclusion perspective on loneliness in older adults in the Nordic countries	11
Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study	10
Successful ageing in the oldest old: objectively and subjectively measured evidence from a population-based survey in Germany	10
Education, wealth, and duration of life expected in various degrees of frailty	10
Digital care technologies in people with dementia living in long-term care facilities to prevent falls and manage behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: a systematic review	10
What protects older Romanians in Switzerland from loneliness? A life-course perspective	10
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing	9
Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes	9
Digital transformation of everyday lives of older Swiss adults: use of and attitudes toward current and future digital services	9
The role of ego integrity and despair in older adults’ well-being during the COVID-19 crisis: the mediating role of need-based experiences	9
Is ageing becoming more active? Exploring cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in Sweden	9
Cognitive functions and physical activity in aging when energy is lacking	9
What matters to people aged 80 and over regarding ambulatory care? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	9
Age-period-cohort analysis of depression trends: are depressive symptoms increasing across generations in Germany?	9
The power of personality in successful ageing: a comprehensive review of larger quantitative studies	9
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	8
Health system reforms and the needs of the ageing population—an analysis of recent policy paths and reform trends in Finland and Sweden	8
Attitudes towards working in retirement: a latent class analysis of older workers’ motives	8
Self-rated resilience and mobility limitations as predictors of change in active aging during COVID-19 restrictions in Finland: a longitudinal study	8
Association between age and intellectual curiosity: the mediating roles of future time perspective and importance of curiosity	8
Associations and correlates of general versus specific successful ageing components	8
Childhood adversity and healthy ageing: a study of the Chinese older population	7
Unmet healthcare needs among the population aged 50+ and their association with health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	7
Shifting self-perceptions of ageing: differential effects of value priorities on self-perceptions of ageing beyond age stereotypes	7
Reducing loneliness in older adults: looking at locals and migrants in a Swiss case study	7
The age and well-being “paradox”: a longitudinal and multidimensional reconsideration	7
Income inequalities, social support and depressive symptoms among older adults in Europe: a multilevel cross-sectional study	7
Questionnaire measures of self-directed ageing stereotype in older adults: a systematic review of measurement properties	7
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	7
Gender differences in time to first hospital admission at age 60 in Denmark, 1995–2014	7
Contextual factors underpinning geographical inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in 100 French départements	7
A systematic review of systematic reviews of needs of family caregivers of older adults with dementia	7
Aging during COVID-19 in Germany: a longitudinal analysis of psychosocial adaptation	7
Time patterns of precautionary health behaviours during an easing phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	7
Economic stress of people 50 + in European countries in the Covid-19 pandemic–do country policies matter?	6
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	6
Buddy or burden? Patterns, perceptions, and experiences of pet ownership among older adults in Switzerland	6
Occupation and working outcomes during the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Perceived deterioration in health status among older adults in Europe and Israel following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	6
The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis	6
Associations between paid and unpaid work among Norwegian seniors: competition, complementarity or continuity?	6
The conceptualisation of vital communities related to ageing in place: a scoping review	5
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	5
Higher levels of neuroticism in older adults predict lower executive functioning across time: the mediating role of perceived stress	5

Aspects of formal volunteering that contribute to favourable psychological outcomes in older adults	5
Working beyond SPA and the trajectories of cognitive and mental health of UK pensioners: Do gender, choice, and occupational status matter?	5
Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	5
Measurement error of the Mini-Mental State Examination among individuals with dementia that reside in nursing homes	5
Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review	5
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	5
Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden	5
Women bear a burden: gender differences in health of older migrants from Turkey	5
Trends in activities of daily living disability among Chinese older adults from 1998 to 2018: an age-period-cohort analysis	5
Older adults in the first wave of the Corona pandemic	5
Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	5
Suffering in silence: a qualitative study of older adults’ experiences of living with long-term musculoskeletal pain at home	5
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	5
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Greater negative affect and mixed emotions during spontaneous reactions to sad films in older than younger adults	5
Living longer, working longer: analysing time trends in working life expectancy in Germany from a health perspective between 2002 and 2018	4
Pet ownership and survival of European older adults	4
Understanding client satisfaction in elderly care: new insights from social resource theory	4
Reliability of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III in differentiating between dementia, mild cognitive impairment and older adults who have not reported cognitive problems	4
The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review	4
Geriatric syndromes and subsequent health-care utilization among older community dwellers in Stockholm	4
How do personality traits manifest in daily life of older adults?	4
Preferences in long-term care models and related factors among older adults: a cross-sectional study from Shandong Province, China	4
Cohort-specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004–2017	4
Do older manual workers benefit in vitality after retirement? Findings from a 3-year follow-up panel study	4
Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age	4
Informal care-giving and the intention to give up employment: the role of perceived supervisor behaviour in a cohort of German employees	4
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	4
Mini-mental state examination trajectories after age 50 by religious affiliation and practice in Ireland	4
Precautionary behaviours of individuals with multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	4
Information before discharge in geriatric patients in Italy: cultural adaptation and validation of the Patient Continuity of Care Questionnaire	3
Volunteer work among older adults in Denmark, 1997–2017: What can explain the continuous upward trend?	3
Cardiovascular risk profiles and 20-year mortality in older people: gender differences in the Pro.V.A. study	3
A conceptual framework addressing the complex labour market dynamics of the work-to-retirement process	3
Social inequalities in ageing in the Nordic countries	3
The structure and functional correlates of social support networks of people in advanced old age living in chosen urban and rural areas in Poland: a cross-sectional study	3
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	3
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	3
Older adults’ mentioned practices for coping with loneliness	3
Substitute services: a barrier to controlling long-term care expenditures	3
Coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in the oldest-old population	3
Gender differences in years of remaining life by living arrangement among older Singaporeans	3
A cross-sectional study investigating the relationships between self-management abilities, productive patient-professional interactions, and well-being of community-dwelling frail older people	3