OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Studies-A Journal of Demography is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association	32
Pregnancy reporting and biases in under-five mortality in three African HDSSs	23
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data	22
Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50	15
The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico	14
Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy	13
The illusion of stable fertility preferences	13
Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India	12
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation	12
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia	12
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?	12
Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre	12
Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data	10
Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers	9
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations	9
Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway	9
Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction	8
The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe	8
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839	8
A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality	7
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe	7
Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden	7
Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries	7
No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany	7
Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19	7

Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues?	6
Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains	6
Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018	6
Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe	6
Shifting the reproductive window: The contribution of ART and egg donation to fertility rates in the UK	5
Home-based work and childbearing	5
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II	5
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification	5
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research	5
Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey	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
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant	5
The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system	5
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation	5
Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education	4
Son preference and sex differentials in receipt of key dimensions of children’s healthcare: Evidence from Pakistan	4
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood	4
Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants	4
Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden	4
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain	4
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss	4
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
Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy	3
Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014	3
Unemployment, return migration, and immigrant mortality: The case of the Great Recession in Spain	3
The shifting rural–urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries	3
Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains	3
Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences	3
Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults	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
Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death	3
The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts	2
Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types	2
Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines	2
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries	2
The role of deaths following childbirth in sex differences in mortality	2
The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate	2
Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe	2
Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries	2
Are the birthdates of our ancestors real? Date of birth misregistration in twentieth-century Poland	1
Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 Cohort	1
Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects	1
Childbearing across partnerships in Italy: Prevalence, demographic correlates, and social gradient	1
Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood	1
Thanks to the 2023 and 2024 Reviewers	1
Child fostering and maternal migration in sub-Saharan Africa	1

Measuring age differences among different-sex couples: Across religions and 130 countries, men are older than their female partners	1
The recent decline in period fertility in England and Wales: Differences associated with family background and intergenerational educational mobility	1
Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach	1
Reassessing general explanations for long-run change in internal migration: Insights from Norway	1
Quantifying self-rated age	1
Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India	1
Mental health benefits of cohabitation and marriage: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian register data	1
Women’s education and fertility in select countries of Africa and Asia: Moderation by quality of education	1
The fertility desires–intentions gap in the United States	1
Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socio-economic status, and sex in South Africa	1
Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records	1
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a rural population in Senegal	1
Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status	1
Health in early adulthood and fertility: A study based on the 1958 British cohort	1
How genuine are sub-replacement ideal family sizes in urban China?	1
Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe	1
Is there an association between family members’ season of birth that could influence birth seasonality? Evidence from Spain and France	1
Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks	1