OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biosocial Science is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic preparedness: what difference does experience make?	24
Perceptions of preconception health messaging and responsibility: engaging with ‘health helpers’ in the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative-South Africa trial	18
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities	14
The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research	14
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis	13
‘It all depends on your faith’: Spiritual illnesses and traditional healing in rural Limpopo Province, South Africa	11
Social determinants of chronic diseases reporting among slum dwellers in Egypt	11
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample	9
Contraception knowledge and practices among students in Lebanese universities	8
Undernutrition among children and its determinants across the parliamentary constituencies of India: a geospatial analysis	8
Pandemic preparedness and pandemic arrival: an ethnographic observation	8
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective	7
Variations in adult BMI among Indian men: a quantile regression analysis	7
Exploring the Relationship between Household Structure and Utilisation of Maternal Health Care Services in India	7
Correlates of pregnancies ending in induced abortions: a population-based analysis from the age perspective	6
Applications of new measures of population ageing using quantity and quality of remaining life years to India and selected states	6
Intersectional Inequalities in Anthropometric Failure among Indian Children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016)	6
Short birth interval and associated factors in rural India: A cross-sectional study	6
Beyond household and individual factors: examining the association between ambient air pollution and birth outcomes in India	6
Unravelling biosocial dynamics? The placenta as a postgenomic bio-object in environmental epigenetic research on air pollution	6
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan	6
Biosocial disparities in substance use among sexual-minority veterans with depression: national evidence on the role of depression-related clinical contact and medication use	6
The effect of different socio-economic and working conditions on body size and proportions: A case study on adults from Samsun, Turkey	6
Does healthcare decision-making capacity affect women’s justification of sexual violence? The situation of sub-Saharan Africa	5
Identifying the reasons why men marry teenage girls: a qualitative study from the perspective of men in western Iran	5

Investigation of usage of antenatal care services by Syrian immigrant pregnant women and the frequency of anaemia and hypertension during the pandemic	5
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults	5
Consanguinity in northwest Pakistan: evidence of temporal decline	5
Relationship between educational assortative mating and reproductive healthcare utilization in Nigeria	5
Current and past factors affecting the quality of aging in a sample of Spanish elderly	5
Widowhood status, morbidity, and mortality in India: evidence from a follow-up survey	5
Mediating practices in theory and action: apprehending and creating interdisciplinary data in biosocial birth cohort research	5
Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age–period–cohort analysis	5
Contribution of between region and neighborhood variation of socioeconomic factors on the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting: a multilevel analysis of Tanzanian national surveys	5
Prevalence and factors associated with undernutrition and overnutrition among ever-married adolescent girls in Bangladesh: an analysis of national surveys from 2004 to 2017	5
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.	5
‘The new geriatric giants’: how do loneliness and social isolation contribute to probable depression in older adults?	4
Trends in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, domestic violence, and help-seeking among married women in Nepal	4
Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and postpartum depression: a study on low- and middle-income countries with insights from Ghanaian healthcare professionals	4
COVID-19 vaccine anxieties: exploring social and political drivers of vaccine attitudes in Kono District, Sierra Leone	4
Intimate partner violence as a determinant of pregnancy termination among women in unions: evidence from the 2016–2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey	4
Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender	4
Socioeconomic gradient in functional difficulties by domain among youth: evidence from Egypt	4
Women’s decision-making and childhood stunting in Pakistan: a multilevel analysis	4
The experiences of familial mental illness stigma among individuals living with mental illnesses – RETRACTION	4
‘It’s always difficult for women’: an analysis of the life stories of sub-Saharan migrant women	4