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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort	76
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study	63
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	62
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study	57
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	54
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	50
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials	48
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures	46
Health literacy by occupation in Korea	45
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–2018	45
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA	42
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study	41
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men	40
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	40
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study	38
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study	34
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation	34
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?	34
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
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study	28
Eligibility criteria for the UK Winter Fuel Payment: are we targeting the right people?	28
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA	28
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology	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

Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond	25
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda	25
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study	24
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records	24
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand	23
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machine regulations on harmful gambling behaviour	21
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	21
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK	21
Mediating role of psychological distress and alcohol use in socioeconomic disparities in deaths of despair: a causal mediation analysis using record linkage data	21
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary	19
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis	18
Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better	18
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers	18
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage	17
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact	17
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula	16
When the farm whispers, the world must listen	16
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?	16
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey	15
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study	15
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study	15
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study	15
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT\|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions	14
Commonly cited approaches to reducing health inequalities: a call for more clarity around their definition and underlying assumptions	13
Impact of India’s nationwide supplementary nutrition programme for pregnant women on birth weight of their newborns: a quasi-experimental evaluation	13
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study	13
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study	13
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study	13
Survival among patients with cancer after a coalmine fire: analysis of registry data in regional Victoria, Australia	13
Causal mediation approaches for understanding pathways to inequalities and policy entry points: examples from early years health and development	13
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
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 2044	12
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	12
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada	12
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination	12
Impact of social participation on frailty among older adults: a multinational cohort study from the USA, England, China and Mexico	12
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster	12
Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study	12
Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: longitudinal evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006–2021)	11
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors	11
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM_2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri	11
Assessing the relationship between community resilience and health outcomes: an observational local-authority level study in England	11
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care: findings from the cluster randomised controlled community REACH trial	11
Does lifestyle explain the relationship between socioeconomic position and multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases? A mediation analysis applied to the European Prospective Investigation	11
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis	11
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?	11
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women	11
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation	11
Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France	10

Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden	10
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study	10
Self-reported sleep duration and recurrent falls in people aged 50 and above: evidence from two prospective cohorts	10
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke	10
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study	10
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population	10
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)	10
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	10
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme	10
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?	10
Triglyceride-glucose index and risks of suicide mortality in young adults: a nationwide population-based study	9
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”	9
Stimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and risk of first and repeat juvenile criminal offending: a population-based cohort study	9
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhang et al	9
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study	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
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level	9
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities	8
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort	8
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?	8
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children	8
oriGen cohort: a Mexican population-based epidemiological and genomic research platform	8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data	8
Housing and health: an updated glossary	8
Impacts of SNAP benefit increases on US child food insufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England: a linked administrative data cohort study	8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults	8
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing	8
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk	8
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	8
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study	8
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition	8
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries	8
Industrial legacies: a population survey study of mental health disparities across generations in post-coal Wales	7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank	7
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society	7
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence	7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis	7
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data	7
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis	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
Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	7
Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach	7
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)	7
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data	7
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks	7
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study	7
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study	7
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health	7
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions	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
Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data	7
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel	7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–1997	7
Response to: 'Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis' by Hossain et al	6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy	6
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys	6
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales	6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage study	6
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA	6
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities	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
Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini	6
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study	6
Studying adolescent social isolation in school-based social networks: implications for health research	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
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study	6
Cumulative poverty across early adulthood and midlife cognition: findings from the national longitudinal survey of youth	6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study	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
Loneliness and social isolation in transitions to adverse health conditions and mortality: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank study	6