OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of SSM-Population Health is 30. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	259
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study	250
The contribution of unpaid labour to poor mental health in the Swedish working population	115
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019	95
Associations of social capital and health at a city with high aging rate and low population density	63
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?	62
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center	61
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study	58
The influence of negative wealth shock on depressive symptoms and major depressive episode among older adults	56
Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market	55
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	53
Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	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
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children	51
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea	50
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)	50
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data	48
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	46
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia	44
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study	41
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)	41
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	39
Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys	38
Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion	37
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies	35

Tuition-free secondary education and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	34
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam	33
Unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's fertility preferences: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort in the United States	32
The complex representation and contradicting results linking sexual orientation to allostatic load	32
Correlates of suicidal ideation related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional nationally representative Canadian data	32
Racial, ethnic and nativity inequalities in gestational diabetes mellitus: The role of racial discrimination	30