OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 8. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences	107
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates	72
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach	71
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities	53
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology	27
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex	24
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States	22
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia	22
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	19
School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents’ Stress	19
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net	18
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care	18
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	18
Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	16
How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study	15
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China	15
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies	14
Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers	14
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course	13
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	12
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	12
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	11
Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	11
Policy Brief	11

How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	11
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	11
Author Index	10
Policy Brief	10
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	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
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	9
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	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
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	8
A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities	8
Sex Educators’ Strategies for Building Student Trust	8
Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health	8
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People	8
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment?	8
Socioeconomic Positions and Midlife Health Trajectories in a Changing Social Context: Evidence from China, 1991–2006	8
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000–2016	8
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work	8
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	8
Spatial and Ethno-national Health Inequalities: Health and Mortality Gaps between Palestinians and Jews in Israel	8
Policy Brief	8