OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	100
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	62
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	59
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	55
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	52
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	49
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	47
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	47
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	46
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	44
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	43
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	41
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	37
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	36
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	35
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	34
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	33
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	32
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand	32
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	31
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	31
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machine regulations on harmful gambling behaviour	29
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	28
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	26
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	26

Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	25
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	25
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study	24
Impact of offspring and their educational level on readmission and death among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a nationwide cohort study using multistate survival models	24
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	24
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	23
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	22
Dietary patterns and birth outcomes in the ELSPAC pregnancy cohort	21
When the farm whispers, the world must listen	21
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary	21
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?	19
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study	19
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study	19
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact	18
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT\|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions	18
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination	17
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study	17
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis	17
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers	17
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula	16
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage	15
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study	15
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey	15
Mental health and behavioural factors involved in road traffic crashes by young adults: analysis of the Raine Study	15
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study	15
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study	14
Impact of India’s nationwide supplementary nutrition programme for pregnant women on birth weight of their newborns: a quasi-experimental evaluation	14
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster	14
Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better	14
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis	13
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada	13
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM_2.5exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri	12
Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health?	12
Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits	12
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis	12
Associations between age of menarche and genetic variation in women of African descent: genome-wide association study and polygenic score analysis	12
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation	12
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 2044	12
Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study	12
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke	11
Marked and widening socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes prevalence in Scotland	11
Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population	11
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?	11
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme	11
Association between sex work occupational stigma and inconsistent condom use: findings from a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2022)	11
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors	11
Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK: 3 year follow-up outcomes of a natural experiment	11
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study	10
Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: longitudinal evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006–2021)	10
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?	10

Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France	10
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden	10
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level	10
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway	10
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women	10
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study	10
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhanget al	9
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort	9
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life: a full population register-based study	9
Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country	9
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk	8
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society	8
Invited commentary on “Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey”	8
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition	8
Correction: Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales	8
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children	8
Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort	8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults	8
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study	8
Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach	8
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?	8
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)	8
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing	8
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence	8
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries	8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study	8
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	8
Intersectorality and health: a glossary	8
Housing and health: an updated glossary	8
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities	8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data	8
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data	7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis	7
Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank	7
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England: a linked administrative data cohort study	7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–1997	7
Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study	7
Perceived discrimination at work: examining social, health and work-related factors as determinants among breast cancer survivors – evidence from the prospective CANTO cohort	7
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks	7
Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach	7
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 2021	7
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales	6
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	6
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities	6
Response to: 'Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis' by Hossainet al	6
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions	6
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel	6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study	6
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys	6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage study	6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy	6
The case for planetary health prevention	6
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study	6
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data	6
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health	6
Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data	6
Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records	6
School performance and educational achievement in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero	6
Gender-related factors and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence in women and men: analysis of a population-based cohort study in the Netherlands	6
Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?	6
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA	6
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study	6
Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini	6
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis	6
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults	6
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study	6
Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19	6
Gender-specific aspects of socialisation and risk of cardiovascular disease among community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study using machine learning algorithms and a conventional metho	6