OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 27. 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
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	164
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	94
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	55
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	55
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	55
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	52
Conceptual lessons for containing an epidemic of questionable COVID-19 counterfactual comparisons	46
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	45
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	43
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	42
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	42
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	41
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors among workers: results from the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health study	40
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	39
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	38
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	38
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	34
COVID-19 distribution in Bogotá, Colombia: effect of poverty during the first 2 months of pandemic	32
Effectiveness of the population-based ‘check your health preventive programme’ conducted in a primary care setting: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial	31
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	31
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	30
High long-term mortality in ischaemic heart disease accentuated among ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe: findings from a prospective all-comers percutaneous coronary intervention registry in Romania	30
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study	29
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	29
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	28

Multimorbidity as assessed by reporting of multiple causes of death: variations by period, sociodemographic characteristics and place of death among older decedents in England and Wales, 2001–2017	28
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	28
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	27
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	27