OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health and Social Behavior is 9. 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
Corrigendum to “How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study”	40
Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality	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
Social Cost and Health: The Downside of Social Relationships and Social Networks	21
Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research	19
Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19

Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy	19
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations for Health Inequalities Incomplete	18
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults	17
Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	16
Dualized Labor Market and Polarized Health: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Association between Precarious Employment and Mental and Physical Health in Germany	15
Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives	15
How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife	15
The Association between Multiple Chronic Conditions and Depressive Symptoms: Intersectional Distinctions by Race, Nativity, and Gender	14
Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization	14
Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace	13
Policy Brief	12
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19	12
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States	11
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults	11
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States	11
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement	10
The Nexus of Physical and Psychological Pain: Consequences for Mortality and Implications for Medical Sociology	10
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults	10
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory	10
Sociology of Chronic Pain	10
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status	10
Author Index	10
Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States	9
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids	9
Erratum to “(Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course”	9
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from “Solidarity Outpatient Clinics” in Greece during the Great Recession	9