OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Ageing is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	52
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	39
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	39
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	32
Individual vitality changes over 20 years among aging adults, using predefined and data-driven patterns: the Doetinchem Cohort Study	31
Concurrent associations between objective markers and subjective markers of aging with indicators of successful aging: An integrative approach	30
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	26
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	24
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	22
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	21
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	20
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	20
The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts	20
Widowhood and grandchild care: a longitudinal study of European grandmothers and grandfathers	19
Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	17
MMSE in primary care practice: why good tests can mislead in the wrong context	17
Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	17
Challenges and opportunities of psychological aging research	17
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	16
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	16
The impact of providing intensive care and practical help in mid-life on employment transitions in Europe	16
Correction to: Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	16
Bourdieu’s capitals matter: tracking longer working lives across Europe	16
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	16

Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	15
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	15
Association of behaviour-related health risk factors with working life expectancy in adults aged ≥ 50 years: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Finnish Public Sector Study	14
Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years	14
Policies for supporting caregivers of older adults with long-term care needs in EU countries: a systematic review	13
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	13
Correction: Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	13
Low social capital at work is associated with increased risk of perceived age discrimination: results from a prospective cohort study	12
The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life	11
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	10
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	10
Self-esteem is associated with health status and PROMs in advanced age independent of multidimensional frailty: secondary analysis from a RCT with 6-month follow-up	10
Measurement invariance of a general cognitive performance measure across 27 European countries and Israel	10
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	10
The hidden crisis: classifying unmet healthcare needs in European older adults during COVID-19	10
Multiple work demands and early retirement intention in Germany: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis	10
Community-based housing alternatives for older adults: towards a conceptual framework for resident involvement	10
Frail parents and adult children’s life-satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data	9
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	9
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	9
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	9
The relationship between community spiritual comfort services and cognitive function in the older adults: a random intercept cross-lagged panel study	8
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	8
How social media use and abuse are related to social cognition and loneliness in older adults	8
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	7
Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	7
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	7
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	7
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore	7
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	7
Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland	7
The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness in European older women and men: a growth curve analysis	7
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	7
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	7
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Impact of age-related stereotype threat on subjective age, awareness of age-related change, and physical performance in older adults	6
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	6
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?	6
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	6
A scoping review of measurement tools and a content validity evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS)	6
Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study	6
Contribution of accumulative affective problems across the life course towards the association of childhood socioeconomic position with later-life cognitive ageing	6
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	6
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	5
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	5
The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data	5
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	5
Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	5
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	5
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	5

Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	5
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	5
A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	5
Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial	5
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	5
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	5
“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future	5
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between age and degrees of avoidant decision-making style	4
Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health	4
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	4
Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity	4
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	4
Investigating the influence of work-related stress on early labour market exit: the role of health	4
Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam	4
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	4
The effect of age on the architecture of psychological and cognitive dimensions: a network perspective	4
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	4
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	4
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences	4
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden	3
Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands	3
Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes	3
Socio-economic differences in receiving care by the over-80s in Germany and England: intensity of care needs as a moderator	3
“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	3
Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study	3
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	3
Correction: Promoting physical activity in geriatric patients with cognitive impairment after discharge from ward-rehabilitation: a feasibility study	3
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	3
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults	2
Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets	2
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	2
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	2
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	2
The effectiveness of interventions on clinical and patient-reported outcomes in hospital-to-home transitions of older adults: a systematic review	2
The association between widowhood duration and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: mediation role of sleeping duration and dietary diversity	2
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	2
Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	2
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age	2
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	2
Internet use and COVID-19 vaccination attitudes among older adults in Switzerland during the pandemic	2
The brief case for everyday problems: a proposal of two brief alternate forms of the Everyday Problems Test	2
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	2
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries	2
Loneliness, social isolation, and health-related quality of life in older adults	2
Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age	2
Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults	2
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	2
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	2
Measuring relatives’ perceptions of end-of-life communication with physicians in five countries: a psychometric analysis	2
Older people in Sweden increasingly enter long-term care with extensive care needs–a register study of first-time users based on the SNAC Stockholm Eldercare study	2