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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	233
Introduction to the Special Issue	93
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	84
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	66
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	48
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	48
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	46
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	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
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	41
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	34
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression	33
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	32
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	28
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	28
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	23
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	22
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	21
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	19
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	19
Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research	18
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	18
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	18
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	17

Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	16
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	16
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	15
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations for Health Inequalities Incomplete	15
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	15
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	14
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	12
Policy Brief	12
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	12
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	12
Author Index	11
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	11
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	11
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	10
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	10
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	10
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	10
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	10
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	10
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	9
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	9
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	8
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	8
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	8
The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems	7
Policy Brief	7
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	7
Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding	7
Spatial and Ethno-national Health Inequalities: Health and Mortality Gaps between Palestinians and Jews in Israel	7
The Roles of Adolescent Occupational Expectations and Preparation in Adult Suicide and Drug Poisoning Deaths within a Shifting Labor Market	7
Predicting Mental Health Care Enrollment and Treatment Uptake among Newly Arrived Refugees in U.S. Resettlement Programs	6
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults	6
Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care	6
The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States	6
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	6
Less Time for Health: Parenting, Work, and Time-Intensive Health Behaviors among Married or Cohabiting Men and Women in the United States	6
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It?	6
From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority	6
Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects	6
The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	6
Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
High School Curricular Rigor and Cognitive Function among White Older Adults	6
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	5
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses	5

Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	5
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants	5
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam	4
Duration-Weighted Exposure to Neighborhood Disadvantage and Racial-Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior	4
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	4
The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality?	4
Policy Brief	4
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early toMid-adulthood	4
“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion	4
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	3
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	3
Policy Brief	3
Agentic Recombination of Health Behaviors into Adult Health Lifestyles	3
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	3
“It Wasn’t Very Public-Clinicy”: Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers	2
Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm	2
Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being	2
Policy Brief	2
Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling?	2
Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities	2
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms	2
Uncertain and under Quarantine: Toward a Sociology of Medical Ignorance	2
Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Sexual Fluidity and Psychological Distress: What Happens When Young Women’s Sexual Identities Change?	2
Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain	2
At the Front Stage: Uncertainty as a Medical Work Object	2
Author Index	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks	2
Lifetimes of Vulnerability: Childhood Adversity, Poor Adult Health, and the Criminal Legal System	2
Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice	2
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	2
Sexual Orientation and Social Isolation from Early Adulthood to Early Midlife	2
Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates	2