Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Policy Brief197
Switching Clinics: Patient Autonomy over the Course of Their Careers in Consumer Medicine74
Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States72
Surveillance, Self-Governance, and Mortality: The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Overdose Mortality, 2000–201658
Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants56
Introduction to the Special Issue46
Policy Brief46
Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates43
Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses42
Forces to Be Reckoned with: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-1938
Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories37
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach36
Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities34
The Heterogeneous Effects of College Education on Outcomes Related to Deaths of Despair34
High-Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance33
Beyond Acculturation: Health and Immigrants’ Social Integration in the United States32
“We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias through the Case of Contraception29
Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences29
Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities28
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China’s COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation27
Sociology of Chronic Pain23
Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement21
Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults20
State–Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States20
Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status17
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course17
Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program16
Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates15
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms: Precarious Work and Social Marginality across European Countries15
Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults14
Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research14
Whose Good Death? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of Inequality in Hospitals14
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids13
Author Index13
Stability and Volatility in the Contextual Predictors of Working-Age Mortality in the United States12
Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States11
The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health11
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles10
Occupations and Sickness-Related Absences during the COVID-19 Pandemic10
“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion10
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex10
Employment Pathways during Economic Recession and Recovery and Adult Health10
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory10
The Mental “Weight” of Discrimination: The Relationship between Perceived Interpersonal Weight Discrimination and Suicidality in the United States10
Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children’s Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker9
Invoking Uncertainty: Parents’ Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology9
Disease, Scapegoating, and Social Contexts: Examining Social Contexts of the Support for Racist Naming of COVID-19 on Twitter9
Analysis of Sex-Specific Gene-by-Cohort and Genetic Correlation-by-Cohort Interaction in Educational and Reproductive Outcomes Using the UK Biobank Data9
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