OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Public Health 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	214
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	201
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	182
Mastheads	136
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	134
AJPH Global News	122
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	122
How Accountable to the Public Is Funding for Graduate Medical Education? The Case for State Medicaid GME Payments	104
What Is Public Health? An Interview With Former Governor John Kasich	96
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	87
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	81
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	78
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	77
Large-Scale Implementation of a Daily Rapid Antigen Testing Program in California for Detecting SARS-CoV-2	76
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	76
Table of Contents	76
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	70
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	67
Self-Reported Health Indicators in the US Army: Longitudinal Analysis From a Population Surveillance System, 2014‒2018	65
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	63
Subscription Form	62
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	62
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	62
Drug Overdose Epidemic Colliding With COVID-19: What the United States Can Learn From France	58
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Sexism Shape the History of and Response to Childhood Maltreatment Among Incarcerated Individuals	58

Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	57
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	57
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	57
Training the Next Generation of Public Health Professionals	56
Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	50
Who Counts and Who Gets Counted? Health Equity in Infectious Disease Surveillance	50
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	50
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	48
Evaluation of Public Health Contact Tracing for Mpox Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men—10 US Jurisdictions, May 17–July 31, 2022	48
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	48
Tobacco Control Leaders Call for a Balanced Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Vaping	44
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	44
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	43
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	43
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	43
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	42
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in Young Infants After the Introduction of Paid Family Leave in New York State, 2015‒2019	41
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	40
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	39
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	39
Workplace Leave and Breastfeeding Duration Among Postpartum Women, 2016–2018	37
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	36
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	35
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	35
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	35
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	34
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	34
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	34
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	34
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	33
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	33
Statement of Ownership	33
Continuing Education	32
The Challenges of Public Health Leadership	32
Subscription Form	32
Career Opportunities	32
Self et al. Respond	32
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	31
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	30
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	30
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	29
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	29
Beyond the Magic Bullet: What Will It Take to End the AIDS Epidemic?	29
Table of Contents	29
Wilner and Holton Respond	29
Public Health Across the Political Spectrum for All	29
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	29
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	29
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	29
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	29

Massachusetts Initiative to Improve Contraception Services: A Tale of Two Programs	28
Mastheads	28
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	28
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	28
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	28
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	28
Death Certification in the United States	28
Table of Contents	27
Vulnerability and Resilience: Use and Misuse of These Terms in the Public Health Discourse	27
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	27
Table of Contents	27
Mastheads	27
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	26
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	26
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	25
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	25
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	25
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	25
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	25
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	25
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	25
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	24
Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis	24
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	24
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	24
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	24
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	24
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	24
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	24
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	23
Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the LGBTQIA Community	23
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	23
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	23
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	23
Expanding Mail-Based Distribution of Drug-Related Harm Reduction Supplies Amid COVID-19 and Beyond	23
Nurturing Innovation at the Roots: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities	22
Adapting Survey Data Collection to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From a Local Health Department	22
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	22
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	22
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	22
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	22
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	22
The Sankofa Paradox: Why Black Women Know the HIV Epidemic Ends With “WE”	22
Disparities in Health and Economic Burdens of Cancer Attributable to Suboptimal Diet in the United States, 2015‒2018	21
Table of Contents	21
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	21
Medicaid Expansions and Participation in Supplemental Security Income by Noncitizens	21
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	21
Stigma Is Associated With Widening Health Inequities: Challenges From the Current COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	20
Is the Probation Population’s Health and Health Care Utilization Gendered?	20
Why Was COVID-19 Not the First Leading Cause of Death in the United States in 2020? Rethinking the Ranking List	20
Subscription Form	20
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	20
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	20
Career Opportunities	20
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	20
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	19
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	19
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	19
US Right-Wing, Pro-Family Movements in East Africa: Furthering Legislation That Fuels Health Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Persons Assigned Female Sex at Birth in Western Kenya	19
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	19
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	19
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	19
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	19
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	19
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	19
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	19
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	19
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	18
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	18
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	18
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	18
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	18
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	18
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	18
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military	18
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	17
Homicide Epidemic in Cali, Colombia: A Surveillance System Data Analysis, 1993‒2018	17

Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021	17
COVID-19—The Historical Lessons of the Pandemic Reinforce Systemic Flaws and Exacerbate Inequity	17
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	17
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	17
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	17
Adherence to Social-Distancing and Personal Hygiene Behavior Guidelines and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis: Evidence From the Understanding America Study	17
Structural Inequities, HIV Community-Based Organizations, and the End of the HIV Epidemic	17
Subscription Form	16
Yes, Food Portion Sizes and People Have Become Bigger and Bigger. What Is to Be Done?	16
Narratives Are Useful Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Risk Communication	16
Mastheads	16
Table of Contents	16
Table of Contents	16
Table of Contents	16
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	16
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	16
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	16
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	16
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	16
Mastheads	16
Delivering Preexposure Prophylaxis to People Who Use Drugs and Experience Homelessness, Boston, MA, 2018–2020	16
Revisiting the Protective Value of Barrier Face Coverings After the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	16
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	16
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	16
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	16
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	15
Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	15
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	15
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	15
Mastheads	15
Subscription Form	15
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	15
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	15
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	15
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	15
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	15
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	15
The Environmental Injustice of Beauty Products: Toward Clean and Equitable Beauty	15
Table of Contents	15
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	15
Balfour et al. Respond	15
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	14
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	14
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	14
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	14
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	14
“First Do No Harm”: Effective Communication About COVID-19 Vaccines	14
The Importance of Federal Waivers and Technology in Ensuring Access to WIC During COVID-19	14
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	14
COVID-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons	14
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	14
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	14
Food Insecurity and Delayed or Forgone Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	14
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	14
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	14
Vaccine Coverage Across the Life Course in Michigan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: January‒September 2020	14
Conflicts of Interest	13
Subscription Form	13
Is Omicron Showing Us the Path Ahead?	13
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United States Using Enhanced Vital Records, 2016‒2017	13
Alternatives to Detention: Immigration Reform Grounded in Public Health	13
Subscription Form	13
Harm Reduction for Veterans (and Others) Who Carry Guns and Experience Anger Attacks	13
Table of Contents	13
Mastheads	13
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	13
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	13
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	13
AJPH Global News	13
Vaccine Resistance and History in the Land of Liberty	13
A Look at When Dying Really Counts: An AJPH Supplement on Mortality Data in Public Health Surveillance	13
COVID-19–Related Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Other Marginalized Communities in the United States	13
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	13
A Social Vulnerability Framework to Identify and Assist With Environmental Injustice	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
The Murder of Black Women in the United States: A Public Health Crisis	12
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	12
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	12
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	12
School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012–2019	12
Longitudinal Impact of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Abortion Service Delivery in Ohio, 2022‒2023	12
Vaccine Solidarity Requires Social Justice: A Public Health of Consequence, February 2022	12
Implementation of Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Isolation Hotel	12
Estimating COVID-19‒ Related Mortality in India: An Epidemiological Challenge With Insufficient Data	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
Lessons From COVID-19 Testing Research: The Power of Rapid Response	12
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	12
Flavors Remain a Major Driver of Youth E-Cigarette Use	12
Substance Use Among Asian American Adults in 2016–2020: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a National Survey on Drug Use and Health Data	12
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	12