Journal of Biosocial Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biosocial Science is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pandemic preparedness: what difference does experience make?19
The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research17
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis14
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities13
Childbearing culture: a prominent context in the process of maternal role attainment in Iranian mothers with preterm neonates12
Perceptions of preconception health messaging and responsibility: engaging with ‘health helpers’ in the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative-South Africa trial12
Social determinants of chronic diseases reporting among slum dwellers in Egypt11
Sociodemographic patterns of preterm birth and low birth weight among pregnant women in rural Mysore district, India: A latent class analysis10
Factors associated with reporting good maternal health-related knowledge among rural mothers of Yemen10
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample9
Undernutrition among children and its determinants across the parliamentary constituencies of India: a geospatial analysis9
Overweight and obesity in preschool children in Turkey: A multilevel analysis9
Understanding the sex inequality in childlessness: an approach using Swedish register data8
Pandemic preparedness and pandemic arrival: an ethnographic observation8
Variations in adult BMI among Indian men: a quantile regression analysis8
Contraception knowledge and practices among students in Lebanese universities8
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective7
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan7
Exploring the Relationship between Household Structure and Utilisation of Maternal Health Care Services in India7
Community-based social and demographic assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices and medical conditions related to vitamin D deficiency in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan6
Long-term mating positively predicts both reproductive fitness and parental investment6
The effect of different socio-economic and working conditions on body size and proportions: A case study on adults from Samsun, Turkey6
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and body mass index in the BBC Internet Study: prenatal sex steroids and a Trivers–Willard effect on body composition6
Short birth interval and associated factors in rural India: A cross-sectional study6
Applications of new measures of population ageing using quantity and quality of remaining life years to India and selected states6
Beyond household and individual factors: examining the association between ambient air pollution and birth outcomes in India6
Gender and rural-urban differences in hypertension among youth in India: Insights from a large scale survey, 2015-165
Current and past factors affecting the quality of aging in a sample of Spanish elderly5
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults5
Prevalence and factors associated with undernutrition and overnutrition among ever-married adolescent girls in Bangladesh: an analysis of national surveys from 2004 to 20175
Social environment perception and associations with overweight in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil5
Women’s education and desire for additional children in Vietnam: regional differences and the role of son preference5
Unravelling biosocial dynamics? The placenta as a postgenomic bio-object in environmental epigenetic research on air pollution5
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.5
Intersectional Inequalities in Anthropometric Failure among Indian Children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016)5
Investigation of usage of antenatal care services by Syrian immigrant pregnant women and the frequency of anaemia and hypertension during the pandemic5
Widowhood status, morbidity, and mortality in India: evidence from a follow-up survey5
Mediating practices in theory and action: apprehending and creating interdisciplinary data in biosocial birth cohort research5
The effect of height on family formation in rural Spain, birth-cohorts 1835–19754
Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age–period–cohort analysis4
Relationship between educational assortative mating and reproductive healthcare utilization in Nigeria4
Identifying the reasons why men marry teenage girls: a qualitative study from the perspective of men in western Iran4
Consanguinity in northwest Pakistan: evidence of temporal decline4
Rural–urban dimensions of the perception of malaria severity and practice of malaria preventive measures: insight from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey4
What factors are associated with forms of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth? A survey of referral health facilities in south-east Nigeria4
COVID-19 vaccine anxieties: exploring social and political drivers of vaccine attitudes in Kono District, Sierra Leone4
Weight gain is associated with shorter lifespan: a longitudinal study of New Zealand soldiers serving in both world wars4
Does healthcare decision-making capacity affect women’s justification of sexual violence? The situation of sub-Saharan Africa4
The impact of neonatal parameters and parental factors on body fat level in early childhood4
Contribution of between region and neighborhood variation of socioeconomic factors on the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting: a multilevel analysis of Tanzanian national surveys4
Ethnic affiliation and protective sexual behaviours among youth in Nigeria3
Family orientation, working years and childbearing age: evidence from the China Family Panel Study 20143
Menarche and pubertal progression: a cross-sectional analysis of timing and influencing factors in North-Eastern Ghana3
The effects of sex, nation, ethnicity, age and self-reported pubertal development on participant-measured right-left 2D:4D (Dr-l) in the BBC internet study3
Gender differences in dietary behaviours, health-related habits and prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Botswana3
Health system mistrust, ultra-orthodox Jews in the US, and vaccine hesitancy3
Child marriage, educational attainment, and comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS: a multi-country analysis3
Covert contraceptive use among women with a previous unintended pregnancy in Nigeria: A multilevel investigation of individual- and contextual-level factors3
Volga German surnames and Alzheimer’s disease in Argentina: an epidemiological perspective – CORRIGENDUM3
Exploring the link between household structure and women’s household decision-making autonomy in Mauritania3
Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and postpartum depression: a study on low- and middle-income countries with insights from Ghanaian healthcare professionals3
Intimate partner violence as a determinant of pregnancy termination among women in unions: evidence from the 2016–2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey3
‘It’s always difficult for women’: an analysis of the life stories of sub-Saharan migrant women3
Latina paradox in Spain? Arrival-cohort effects on the birthweight of newborns of Latina mothers3
Impact of Covid-19 on antenatal care: evidence from Madagascar Demographic and Health Survey3
Longstanding health risk across the life course: The influence of early-life experience on health status throughout the life span3
Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho3
Trends in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, domestic violence, and help-seeking among married women in Nepal3
Socioeconomic gradient in functional difficulties by domain among youth: evidence from Egypt3
Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender3
The association of solid fuel use in households for cooking with elevated blood pressure among reproductive-aged married women in Bangladesh2
The fertility timing gap: the intended and real timing of childbirth2
Pandemic futures, future preparedness: diverse views in the wake of Covid-192
Navigating the biosocial: perspectives of early career researchers working with birth cohorts.2
Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa2
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is not an independent risk factor for breech presentation among singleton term births in Vienna, Austria2
Changing sex differences in undernutrition of African children: findings from Demographic and Health Surveys2
Cross-national data on informal caregivers of older people with long-term care needs in the European population: time for a more coordinated and comparable approach2
Birth preparedness and complication readiness: Evaluating the “know-do” gap among women receiving antenatal care in Benin City, Nigeria2
High non-use of contraception among tribal and non-tribal women in North-Eastern India: alarming but neglected2
Are internal migrants (head porters) sexually vulnerable due to the coronavirus pandemic? A qualitative study of the situation in Ghana2
Determinants of unmet need for family planning: Evidence from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey2
Is cohabitation as a form of union formation a licence to intimate partner physical violence in Uganda?2
Prevalence and factors associated with Anaemia in Married Women of Reproductive age group: Evidence from North East India2
Changes in the adiposity level and prevalence of overweight/obesity among children from Kraków (Poland) within the last decade (from 2010 to 2020)2
Geographical disparities in temporal trends of low birth weight in Saskatchewan from 2002/2003 to 2021/2022: insights from a joinpoint regression analysis2
Do maternal obstetric morbidity and its concomitants differ between sedente and migrant groups? The case of the Oraon populations of Eastern India2
Excavating LGBTQ+ lives in the birth cohort: an exploration of pen portraits and data storytelling2
Geographic inequities in neonatal survival in Nigeria: a cross-sectional evidence from spatial and artificial neural network analyses2
Safer sex negotiation and parity among women in sub-Saharan Africa2
Women’s migration to cities1
A quasi-cohort trend analysis of adult obesity in Colombia1
The role of education in child and adolescent marriage in rural lowland Nepal1
Do unwanted children face growth penalties in resource poor environments? Evidence from Roma Settlements in Serbia1
Comment on ‘Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho’, and ‘Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southe1
Declining fertility and increasing use of traditional methods of family planning: a paradox in Uttar Pradesh, India?1
The impact of welfare on maternal investment and sibling competition: evidence from Serbian Roma communities1
What is innovative in qualitative methods in birth Cohort studies? A scoping review1
Income or educational attainment: which is more effective in the fight against overweight? Evidence from Spain and Andalusia1
Consanguinity rates among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a study on genetic awareness – CORRIGENDUM1
Height growth of Mexican boys by geographic region: an evaluation based on nationally representative data of ENSANUT 2012 and 20181
Socioeconomic correlates of sedentary time during pregnancy among women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK1
Non-use of modern contraceptives among women in humanitarian contexts: evidence from a qualitative study in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria1
The practice of polygyny on the utilisation of reproductive health services among married women in Ghana1
Social determinants of blood pressure control in a middle-income country in Latin America1
Critical medical ecology and intersectionality perspectives in schistosomiasis prevention and control in selected communities in Mindanao, the Philippines1
Self-reported health experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 2021 Australian population census1
Slim north, fat south: explaining regional differences in abnormal weights in Nigeria1
Ideal body image for the opposite sex and its association with body mass index1
Utilisation of public healthcare services by an indigenous group: a mixed-method study among Santals of West Bengal, India1
Prevalence and experience of violence against persons with disabilities in Bangladesh: findings from a nationwide mixed-method study1
Association of spousal violence and women’s empowerment status among the rural women of sub-Saharan Africa1
Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda’s response to COVID-19?1
Women’s narratives of disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in Kolkata, India1
Assessing the spatio-temporal pattern and determinants of child marriage in Nigeria1
Social inequities in food deserts and food swamps in a northeastern Brazilian capital1
Exploring the lived experience of economic insecurity and health among people accessing charity-run food provision services in Bristol, UK1
Association between household air pollution due to solid fuel use and sleep problems among older adults in India1
Factors affecting contraceptive use among currently married women in Iraq in 20181
Uncertainties beyond preparedness: COVID-19 vaccination in Senegal1
Why do women abort their pregnancies? Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2019–21) of India1
‘Fear of threats’: a mixed-method study among Malaysian women with gestational diabetes mellitus1
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