OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of SSM-Population Health is 34. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations of social capital and health at a city with high aging rate and low population density	232
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	205
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)	183
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	88
Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market	86
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children	84
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea	71
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study	61
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019	59
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data	58
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study	57
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	56
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia	55
Impact of indoor air pollution from cooking fuel usage and practices on self-reported health among older adults in India: Evidence from LASI	53
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)	52
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?	48
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study	48
The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities	48
Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion	46
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	45
Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys	45
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center	43
Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	42
Tuition-free secondary education and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	42
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam	42

Biosocial medicine: Biology, biography, and the tailored care of the patient	42
Differences in mental health inequalities based on university attendance: Intersectional multilevel analyses of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy	41
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies	41
Tracking of depressed mood from adolescence into adulthood and the role of peer and parental support: A partial test of the Adolescent Pathway Model	41
Trajectories of psychological distress over multiple COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia	38
In the wake of a crisis: Caught between housing and healthcare	38
The double-edged role of accessed status on health and well-being among middle- and older-age adults in rural South Africa: The HAALSI study	37
Are childhood factors predictive of adult health literacy? A longitudinal birth cohort analysis	37
Intergenerational social mobility and self-rated health in Canada	36
Racial, ethnic and nativity inequalities in gestational diabetes mellitus: The role of racial discrimination	34