OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biosocial Science is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic preparedness: what difference does experience make?	17
The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research	15
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis	14
Social determinants of chronic diseases reporting among slum dwellers in Egypt	12
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities	12
Sociodemographic patterns of preterm birth and low birth weight among pregnant women in rural Mysore district, India: A latent class analysis	10
What has comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge got to do with HIV testing among men in Kenya and Mozambique? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys	10
Factors associated with reporting good maternal health-related knowledge among rural mothers of Yemen	10
Childbearing culture: a prominent context in the process of maternal role attainment in Iranian mothers with preterm neonates	10
Undernutrition among children and its determinants across the parliamentary constituencies of India: a geospatial analysis	9
Understanding the sex inequality in childlessness: an approach using Swedish register data	9
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample	8
Exploring the Relationship between Household Structure and Utilisation of Maternal Health Care Services in India	8
Age heaping among individuals in selected South Asian countries: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys	8
Contraception knowledge and practices among students in Lebanese universities	8
Overweight and obesity in preschool children in Turkey: A multilevel analysis	8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan	8
The effect of different socio-economic and working conditions on body size and proportions: A case study on adults from Samsun, Turkey	7
Short birth interval and associated factors in rural India: A cross-sectional study	7
Variations in adult BMI among Indian men: a quantile regression analysis	7
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective	7
Applications of new measures of population ageing using quantity and quality of remaining life years to India and selected states	6
Community-based social and demographic assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices and medical conditions related to vitamin D deficiency in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan	6
Clients’ perceptions of the quality of post-abortion care in eight health facilities in Dakar, Senegal	5
Investigation of usage of antenatal care services by Syrian immigrant pregnant women and the frequency of anaemia and hypertension during the pandemic	5

Digit ratio (2D:4D) and body mass index in the BBC Internet Study: prenatal sex steroids and a Trivers–Willard effect on body composition	5
Unravelling biosocial dynamics? The placenta as a postgenomic bio-object in environmental epigenetic research on air pollution	5
Social environment perception and associations with overweight in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil	5
Intersectional Inequalities in Anthropometric Failure among Indian Children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016)	5
Women’s education and desire for additional children in Vietnam: regional differences and the role of son preference	5
Do dietary patterns and morbidities have a relationship with primary infertility among women? A study from NFHS-4 (2015–16), India	5
Current and past factors affecting the quality of aging in a sample of Spanish elderly	5
Long-term mating positively predicts both reproductive fitness and parental investment	5
Gender and rural-urban differences in hypertension among youth in India: Insights from a large scale survey, 2015-16	5
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults	4
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.	4
Mediating practices in theory and action: apprehending and creating interdisciplinary data in biosocial birth cohort research	4
Effects of parental stature on child stunting in India	4
Rural–urban dimensions of the perception of malaria severity and practice of malaria preventive measures: insight from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey	4
Prevalence and factors associated with undernutrition and overnutrition among ever-married adolescent girls in Bangladesh: an analysis of national surveys from 2004 to 2017	4
Consanguinity in northwest Pakistan: evidence of temporal decline	4
Does healthcare decision-making capacity affect women’s justification of sexual violence? The situation of sub-Saharan Africa	4
Identifying the reasons why men marry teenage girls: a qualitative study from the perspective of men in western Iran	4
Widowhood status, morbidity, and mortality in India: evidence from a follow-up survey	4
Weight gain is associated with shorter lifespan: a longitudinal study of New Zealand soldiers serving in both world wars	4
Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age–period–cohort analysis	4
The effect of height on family formation in rural Spain, birth-cohorts 1835–1975	4
Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender	3
Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho	3
Menarche and pubertal progression: a cross-sectional analysis of timing and influencing factors in North-Eastern Ghana	3
Exploring the link between household structure and women’s household decision-making autonomy in Mauritania	3
Health system mistrust, ultra-orthodox Jews in the US, and vaccine hesitancy	3
The impact of neonatal parameters and parental factors on body fat level in early childhood	3
COVID-19 vaccine anxieties: exploring social and political drivers of vaccine attitudes in Kono District, Sierra Leone	3
Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and postpartum depression: a study on low- and middle-income countries with insights from Ghanaian healthcare professionals	3
Family orientation, working years and childbearing age: evidence from the China Family Panel Study 2014	3
‘It’s always difficult for women’: an analysis of the life stories of sub-Saharan migrant women	3
Mid upper arm circumference as an alternative measure to assess the nutritional status of adolescents: a study in India based on NFHS-4 data	3
Trends in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, domestic violence, and help-seeking among married women in Nepal	3
Gender differences in dietary behaviours, health-related habits and prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Botswana	3
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	3
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	3
Child marriage, educational attainment, and comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS: a multi-country analysis	3
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 study	3
Socioeconomic gradient in functional difficulties by domain among youth: evidence from Egypt	3
What factors are associated with forms of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth? A survey of referral health facilities in south-east Nigeria	3
Relationship between educational assortative mating and reproductive healthcare utilization in Nigeria	3