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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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)	361
Response to the commentary “The role of gender in the relationship between social engagement and health outcomes”	188
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	180
Does educational attainment modify the causal relationship between adiposity and cardiovascular disease? A Mendelian randomization study	162
Trends in health and health inequality during the Japanese economic stagnation: Implications for a healthy planet	142
The heterogeneous associations of universal cash-payouts with breastfeeding initiation and continuation	83
Explaining the higher COVID-19 mortality rates among disproportionately Black counties: A decomposition analysis	73
Assessing health gradient with different equivalence scales for household income – A sensitivity analysis	69
Modelling the potential for parenting skills interventions to reduce inequalities and population prevalence of children's mental health problems: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study	69
The relationship between postsecondary education and adult health behaviors	69
Spatial location, temperature and rainfall diversity affect the double burden of malnutrition among women in Kenya	56
Poor family relationships in adolescence as a risk factor of in-patient somatic care across the life course: Findings from a 1953 cohort	53
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)	53
The effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on food purchases: Evaluation of a natural experiment	52
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	50
Intra-generational social mobility and mortality among older men in the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project: A cohort study	49
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities	46
Gender and care: Does gender modify the mental health impact of adolescent care?	46
Age differences in Allostatic Load among adults in the United States by rural-urban residence	43
Intergenerational transmission of intimate partner violence among women: Evidence from the 2017 Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey	43
Population health science as a unifying foundation for translational clinical and public health research	41
Life expectancy, life disparity, and differential racialization among Chinese, Asian Indians, and Filipinos in the United States	40
Public libraries and functional disability: A cohort study of Japanese older adults	40
Early life environments and cognition in adulthood: New evidence using a semiparametric approach and quantile regression	40
Post-intervention gendered impacts and moderating factors of a government cash plus intervention for adolescents in Tanzania	40

Changes in socioeconomic inequality in self-assessed health in South Africa: The contributions of changes in inequalities between and within socioeconomic groups	39
The long-term impact of childhood peer relationships on disability in later life: Causal mediation evidence from older Chinese adults	38
Life course exposure to work strain and cognitive disparities by race and ethnicity	37
Effects of economic empowerment and relationship strengthening intervention on financial behaviors among couples living with HIV: The Mlambe pilot trial in Malawi	37
Association between family economic decision-making power and survival outcomes among older adults in China: A population-based longitudinal study	36
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	36
Associations of objective and subjective relative deprivation with health, happiness, and life satisfaction	35
Socioeconomic inequalities in low birth weight in South Asia: A comparative analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys	34
Factors associated with the risk perception of COVID-19 infection and severe illness: A cross-sectional study in Japan	34
Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort	34