OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of SSM-Population Health is 29. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children	249
Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market	232
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study	103
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	89
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	61
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)	61
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study	61
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?	55
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea	53
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center	53
Impact of indoor air pollution from cooking fuel usage and practices on self-reported health among older adults in India: Evidence from LASI	52
Tuition-free secondary education and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	50
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	49
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study	48
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data	45
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia	45
Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion	44
Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys	42
Heterogeneous effects of retirement on the biomedical risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases: New evidence based on the physical examination database in Shanghai, China	41
Social norms, diffusion, and women's risk of intimate partner violence in Nepal: Impact assessment of a social and behavior Change communication intervention (Change Starts at home)	40
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam	38
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019	36
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies	36
Associations of social capital and health at a city with high aging rate and low population density	36
Does change in area-level deprivation, change health outcomes? A latent class growth analysis of population data	33

Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	33
The role of gender in the relationship between social engagement and health outcomes	33
The complex representation and contradicting results linking sexual orientation to allostatic load	31
An international comparative study of active living environments and hospitalization for Wales and Canada	31
Differences in up-to-date colorectal and cervical cancer screening rates by ethnicity and preferred language: An analysis across patient-, clinic-, and area-level data sources	29
How schools in Germany shape and impact the lives of adolescent refugees in terms of mental health and social mobility	29
Moderation of the association between COVID-19-related income loss and depression by receipt of financial support: Repeated cross-sectional surveys of young adults in Canada and France (2020–2021)	29