OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 2. 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
Policy Brief	197
Switching Clinics: Patient Autonomy over the Course of Their Careers in Consumer Medicine	74
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	72
Surveillance, Self-Governance, and Mortality: The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Overdose Mortality, 2000–2016	58
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants	56
Introduction to the Special Issue	46
Policy Brief	46
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	43
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses	42
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	38
Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories	37
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	36
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	34
The Heterogeneous Effects of College Education on Outcomes Related to Deaths of Despair	34
High-Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance	33
Beyond Acculturation: Health and Immigrants’ Social Integration in the United States	32
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	29
“We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias through the Case of Contraception	29
Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities	28
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China’s COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	27
Sociology of Chronic Pain	23
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	21
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	20
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	20
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	17

Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	17
Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program	16
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms: Precarious Work and Social Marginality across European Countries	15
Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates	15
Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research	14
Whose Good Death? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of Inequality in Hospitals	14
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	14
Author Index	13
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	13
Stability and Volatility in the Contextual Predictors of Working-Age Mortality in the United States	12
The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health	11
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	11
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	10
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	10
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	10
The Mental “Weight” of Discrimination: The Relationship between Perceived Interpersonal Weight Discrimination and Suicidality in the United States	10
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	10
Occupations and Sickness-Related Absences during the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion	10
Analysis of Sex-Specific Gene-by-Cohort and Genetic Correlation-by-Cohort Interaction in Educational and Reproductive Outcomes Using the UK Biobank Data	9
Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children’s Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker	9
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	9
Disease, Scapegoating, and Social Contexts: Examining Social Contexts of the Support for Racist Naming of COVID-19 on Twitter	9
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	8
Author Index	8
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	8
Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution	8
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during COVID-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being?	7
Policy Brief	7
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	7
Parental Depression and Contextual Selection: The Case of School Choice	7
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities	7
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	7
Is John Henryism a Health Risk or Resource?: Exploring the Role of Culturally Relevant Coping for Physical and Mental Health among Black Americans	7
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	6
Duration-Weighted Exposure to Neighborhood Disadvantage and Racial-Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior	6
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	6
Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups	6
Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift	6
Bringing the Global into Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Narrative, and Global Health	6
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam	5
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	5
Extreme Violence and Weight-Related Outcomes in Mexican Adults	5
Strategic (Non)Disclosure: Activation and Avoidance of Social Ties among Women Seeking Abortion	5
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	5
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	5
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	5
Dirty Work and Intimacy: Creating an Abortion Worker	5
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	5
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	4

Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early to Mid-adulthood	4
The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality?	4
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	4
Policy Brief	4
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	4
Policy Brief	4
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent’s Gender	3
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	3
Why Your Doctor Didn’t Go to Class: Student Culture, High-Stakes Testing, and Novel Coupling Configurations in an Allopathic Medical School	3
Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis	3
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control	3
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	3
Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States	3
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	3
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	3
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future	3
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	2
Uncertain and under Quarantine: Toward a Sociology of Medical Ignorance	2
“Si Mis Papás Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States	2
Underestimating the Relationship: Unpacking Both Socioeconomic Resources and Cognitive Function and Decline in Midlife to Later Life	2
Racial-Ethnic Residential Clustering and Early COVID-19 Vaccine Allocations in Five Urban Texas Counties	2
Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits	2
Crossover Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples	2
COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health	2
Loneliness during the Pregnancy-Seeking Process: Exploring the Role of Medically Assisted Reproduction	2
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	2
Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being	2