OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Studies-A Journal of Demography 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pregnancy reporting and biases in under-five mortality in three African HDSSs	27
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	24
Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50	21
The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico	16
Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy	15
Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India	15
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	15
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation	13
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia	12
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	12
Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers	12
Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data	12
Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway	10
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	9
No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany	9
Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden	9
The impact of education misreporting on education-specific mortality and educational inequalities in mortality: A scenario-based study	9
Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction	9
The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe	9
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	8
Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries	8
Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden	8
The risk of being Giovanni or Maria: Naming practices and child mortality during the demographic transition	8
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe	7
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues?	7

Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19	7
A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality	7
Shifting the reproductive window: The contribution of ART and egg donation to fertility rates in the UK	6
Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe	6
The role of living kin in later-life survival: Evidence from Finnish historical data	6
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research	6
Home-based work and childbearing	6
Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018	6
The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system	6
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation	5
Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey	5
Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden	5
Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil	5
A new test of an old hypothesis: The link between women’s perceptions of mortality conditions and their perceptions of modern healthcare amid demographic transition	5
Pathways to childlessness in Spain: Exploring the intersection of partnership and employment trajectories	5
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II	5
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant	5
Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education	4
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain	4
Social parenting and childlessness in Norway: Associations by sex and economic uncertainty	4
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood	4
Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences	4
Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants	4
Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults	3
Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014	3
Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy	3
Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning	3
Experiences of victimization before resettlement and chronic disease among foreign-born people in the United States	3
Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends at mid-to-older ages in Italy, 2004–19	3
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss	3
Cohort fertility differences between men and women in a developed population: Evidence from Spain	3
Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death	3
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	3
Unemployment, return migration, and immigrant mortality: The case of the Great Recession in Spain	3
The role of deaths following childbirth in sex differences in mortality	2
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries	2
Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types	2
The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate	2
Dynamics of internal migration rates in Japan: Declining trends disaggregated by age, period, and cohort	2
Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains	2
The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts	2
Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood	2
Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records	2
A review and evaluation of internal migration forecasting models	2
Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines	2
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	2
Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India	2