OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 22. 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
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	217
Introduction to the Special Issue	80
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	78
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	62
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	61
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	49
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	47
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	45
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	43
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	42
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	40
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	40
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	38
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	37
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	33
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	32
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	31
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	30
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	28
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	27
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	26
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	22