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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Impact’ for longitudinal social science research: reflecting on paths forward	13
The career history of Chinese entrepreneurs and their life outcomes: a life history study using sequence analysis	10
The many faces of education within life course studies, changing data collection methods, and a protocol for data linkage and model specification to more holistically improve health and well-being in	10
Exploring the effects of socio-economic inequalities on health and disability in Northern Irish adolescents: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study	10
The trend of the quality of cause-of-death data and its association with socio-economic indicators in Serbia in the period 2005–19	8
Adolescent male friendships 28 years later: adult criminal offences and domestic/intimate partner violence	8
What future are we creating?	7
Neighbourhood socioeconomic disparities in immunohaematologic risk in a paediatric analytic cohort	7
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies	7
Middle-aged adults’ career trajectories and later-life financial security: evidence from Korea	6
Can life events predict first-time suicide attempts? A nationwide longitudinal study	6
The legacy of John Bynner	6
Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland	5
Churn in later adulthood? A gendered life course approach using short-term panel data from the US Current Population Survey	5
Short- and long-distance home-leaving and home-returning: exploring the role of life course transitions	5
Reviewer Acknowledgements	5
The intersection of career aspirations and family planning among women in Lagos State: a qualitative analysis	5
Inequalities in children’s skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences?	4
Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development	4
What siblings share: how family background shapes early childhood socio-emotional difficulties in the United Kingdom	4
Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey	4
Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach	4
Income inequality in later years: occupational trajectories or initial social characteristics?	3
Life at the intersections	3
January 2025 editorial: don’t look away	3

An evaluation of self-reported material well-being using latent Markov models with covariates	3
The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood	3
Social isolation and cognitive functioning trajectories from midlife to later life in four high- and middle-income countries	3
An Australian perspective on opportunities to innovate and evolve impact in cohort studies: a reply to ‘Re-considering “impact” for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approa	2
The SLLS in uncertain times: an opportunity to develop an impactful and responsive society. A reply to ‘Studying social change in human lives: a conversation’ by Richard Settersten et al	2
Dreaming of ‘post-conflict’ lives	2
Diversity of employment biographies and prospects of middle-aged welfare recipients	2
Social inequalities in Irish children’s cognitive and mental health during secondary school transition: the role of the home learning environment	2
A glossary for social-to-biological research	2
The early origins of socioeconomic inequalities in inflammation: a scoping review and recommendations for life course and longitudinal studies	2
Social care in childhood and adult outcomes: double whammy for minority children?	2
Creating our legacy	2
A life-course approach to the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and mental health in a longitudinal UK birth cohort (ALSPAC)	2
Long-term trajectories of community integration after spinal cord injury in a Mediterranean setting: identification, characterisation and trajectory predictors	2
Explaining disparities in cognitive functioning: a test of competing hypotheses	2
Collecting saliva samples for DNA genotyping in a large-scale cohort study of young adults in England	2