OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN (PERSIAN) Birth Cohort protocol: rationale, design and methodology	20
Relative time and life course research	16
Promises and pitfalls of qualitative longitudinal research	13
Interviewing adolescents through time: balancing continuity and flexibility in a qualitative longitudinal study	12
Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia	10
Changes in the returns to education at entry into the labour market in West Germany	8
Little and large: methodological reflections from two qualitative longitudinal policy studies on welfare conditionality	8
Tracking in Israeli high schools: social inequality after 50 years of educational reforms	7
The development of gendered occupational aspirations across adolescence: examining the role of different types of upper-secondary education	7
Upper secondary school tracking, labour market outcomes and intergenerational inequality in Denmark	6
The social-origin gap in university graduation by gender and immigrant status: a cohort analysis for Switzerland	5
Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey	5
Consistency of data collected through online life history calendars	5
Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster	5
Social origins, tracking and occupational attainment in Italy	5
Introduction to the special issue: Prospective qualitative research: new directions, opportunities and challenges	5
Collection of genetic data at scale for a nationally representative population: the UK Millennium Cohort Study	4
Changes in sibling similarity in education among Finnish cohorts born in 1950–89: the contribution of paternal and maternal education	4
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies	4
Ruptured school trajectories: understanding the impact of COVID-19 on school dropout, socio-emotional and academic learning using a longitudinal design	4
Development of socio-economic gaps in children’s language skills in Germany	4
Incongruence between parental and adolescent educational aspirations hinders academic attainment	4
Does tracking really affect labour-market outcomes in the long run? Estimating the long-term effects of secondary-school tracking in West Germany	4
COCON – Swiss Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth	4
Studying turning points in labour market trajectories – benefits of a panel-based mixed methods design	3

Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach	3
Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s	3
The early labour-market returns to upper secondary qualifications track in England	3
The lasting imprint of childhood disadvantage: cumulative histories of exposure to childhood adversity and trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood	3
Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland	3
Formal differentiation at upper secondary education in Finland: subject-level choices and stratified pathways to socio-economic status and unemployment	3
The standardisation of the life course in 20th-century China	3
Characterising attrition from childhood to adulthood in a 20-year cohort: which baseline factors are influential, and can bias be corrected?	2
A narrative review of teen mothers’ long-term outcomes: what birth cohort studies tell us	2
How do grandparents’ and parents’ educational attainments influence parents’ educational expectations for children?	2
Examining change in migration strategies over the life course of international PhD students	2
The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood	2
Inequalities in children’s skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences?	2
Perceived discrimination in the workplace and mental health from early adulthood to midlife	2
Educational differentiation in secondary education and labour-market outcomes	2
Stability and mobility in occupational career patterns over 36 years in Swiss women and men	2
The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions	2