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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	104
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	68
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	64
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	53
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	49
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	45
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	24
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	23
Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men	23
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	22
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	21
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	20
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	18
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	18
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	18
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	18
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	17
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	16
Stressful Life Events, Differential Vulnerability, and Depressive Symptoms: Critique and New Evidence	15
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	15
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	14
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	13
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	13
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	13

Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	13
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	12
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	11
Policy Brief	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	10
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	10
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	10
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	10
Policy Brief	10
Author Index	9
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	9
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	9
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	9
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	9
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	9
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	9
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	8
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	8
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8
Policy Brief	8
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	8
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	8
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	8
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	8
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	8
The Roles of Adolescent Occupational Expectations and Preparation in Adult Suicide and Drug Poisoning Deaths within a Shifting Labor Market	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
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
Predicting Mental Health Care Enrollment and Treatment Uptake among Newly Arrived Refugees in U.S. Resettlement Programs	6
Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects	6
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults	6
The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems	6
Whose American Dream? Examining the John Henryism Hypothesis for Psychological Distress among African American and Caribbean Black Women	6
Multigenerational Coresidence and Psychological Distress during Adolescence and Young Adulthood: An Exploration among White, Black, and Hispanic Individuals	6
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It?	5
The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	5
High School Curricular Rigor and Cognitive Function among White Older Adults	4
Multilevel Examination of Hospital Participation in the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI): The Role of Geographic Location and State Health Care Policies	4
Does Your Subject Make You Sick? How Academic Majors Shape Students’ Self-Rated Health	4
The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States	4
Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Life Course Dynamics in the Health of Mothers Raising Children with Serious Conditions	4
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health	3
Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective	3
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early toMid-adulthood	3
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course	3

“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion	3
State Policy Liberalism in Adolescence and Risk for Dementia from 2000 to 2016 among Older U.S. Adults	3
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles	3
A Life Course Perspective on Cognitive Aging: The Interplay between Early and Later Life Stimulating Environments	3
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses	3
Agentic Recombination of Health Behaviors into Adult Health Lifestyles	3
Policy Brief	3
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants	3
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms	2
Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm	2
Policy Brief	2
“I Love You to Death”: Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality	2
Sexual Orientation and Social Isolation from Early Adulthood to Early Midlife	2
Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being	2
“It Wasn’t Very Public-Clinicy”: Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers	2
Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling?	2
The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality?	2
Lifetimes of Vulnerability: Childhood Adversity, Poor Adult Health, and the Criminal Legal System	2
Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Sexual Fluidity and Psychological Distress: What Happens When Young Women’s Sexual Identities Change?	2
Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain	2
Policy Brief	2
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	2
Spotlight on Age: An Overlooked Construct in Medical Sociology	2
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks	2