OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research on Aging is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
New Role, New Paycheck: The Impact on Women’s Wages When Becoming a Caregiver for an Aging Parent	42
Developing a Framework for the Support of Informal Caregivers: Experiences from Sweden, Ireland, and the United States	33
Associations Between Gambling and Cognitive Function among U.S. Chinese Older Adults	25
Subjective Nearness-To-Death and Retirement Anxiety Among Older Workers: A Three-Way Interaction With Work Group Identification	21
Social Leisure Activities and Cognitive Functioning among Married and Unmarried Older Men and Women in Mexico	20
The Role of Race in Relations of Social Support to Hippocampal Volumes Among Older Adults	12
Retirement and Social Activities in Japan: Does Age Moderate the Association?	12
Cognition and Diabetes: Examining Sex Differences Using a Longitudinal Sample of Older Adults	11
Volunteering and Risk of Heart Attack in Later Life: The Moderating Role of Purpose in Life?	11
Predictors of who Serves as an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Participant’s Study Partner and the Impact of their Relationship on Study Partners’ Reports on Participants	11
The Mediating Role of Sense of Control in the Associations Between Remote Contacts and Loneliness Among Older Adults	11
Longitudinal Care Network Changes and Associated Healthcare Utilization Among Care Recipients	10
Would It Kill You to Retire? Testing Short/Long Term/Recurrent Effects of Retirement on All-Cause Mortality Risk	9
Both Partnership History and Current Relationship Quality are Associated With Life Satisfaction in Old Age	9
Relocation Later in Life and Contact Frequency With Friends: Do Contact Modes Matter?	9
From Organizing Medicine to Cooking With More Leafy Greens: A Dyadic, Qualitative Analysis of How Older African American Couples Take Care of Each Other’s Health	9
Acculturation and Subsequent Oral Health Problems Among Foreign-Born Older Chinese Americans: Does Neighborhood Disorder Matter?	8
Social Capital and Willingness to Comply With Anti-Pandemic Government Intervention	8
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Sleep Duration Life Expectancies among Men and Women in Mid-to-Late Life	7
Place Attachment and Aging in Place: Preferences and Disruptions	7
Death of a Family Member and Self-Perceptions of Aging Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults	7
Good Intentions Aside: Stereotype Threat in the Face of Media Strategies to Counter Age Bias	7
Changes in Attitudes Toward Aging, Older People and Elder Care From the Perspective of Former Migrant Care Workers	7
Household Environments and Functional Decline Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: Variations by Gender, Age, and Residence	7
Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China	6

Income-Related Inequalities in Physical and Cognitive Health Domains Over the Later Life Course: Longitudinal Evidence From the U.S. (1992–2016)	6
Psychological and Social Factors Associated with Coexisting Frailty and Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review	6
Children’s Opportunities and Constraints in European Parent Care Over Time: A Within-Family Approach	6
Factors Influencing Intention to Technological Use in Older Adults. The TAM Model Aplication	6
Patterns and Processes of Intergenerational Estrangement: A Qualitative Study of Mother–Adult Child Relationships Across Time	6
Change in Loneliness Experienced by Older Men and Women Living Alone and With Others at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Early-Life Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Health in Late Middle-Age: Importance of Heterogeneous Income Trajectories	5
Health Behavior Patterns and Associated Risk of Memory-Related Disorders Among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Couples	5
Trajectories of Intergenerational Emotional Closeness in Multi-Child Aging Families in China	5
How Do Marital Transitions Affect Self-Perceptions of Aging?	5
Within-Family Differences in Intergenerational Contact: The Role of Gender Norms in a Patrilineal Society	5
The Relationships of Nursing Home Culture Change Practices With Resident Quality of Life and Family Satisfaction: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding	5
Impact of Retirement on Quality of Life: Role of Changes in Social Network Involvement	5
Race-Discordant School Attendance and Cognitive Function in Later Life	5
Helping Behavior of Older Adults during the Early COVID-19 Lockdown in Belgium	5
“They’re not leaving their home; this is where they were born, this is where they will die.”: Key Informant Perspectives From the U.S. Counties With the Greatest Concentration of the Oldest Old	4
Leisure Participation and Cognitive Impairment Among Healthy Older Adults in China	4
How Parents’ Marital Quality Influences Intergenerational Support Between Older Adults and Their Children: Evidence From Malaysia	4
Performance in a Balance Test and Prediction of All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Elderly Ambulatory Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	4
Prospective Associations between Physical Activity and Memory in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Examining Social Determinants	4
Concern About Falling, Confidence in Balance, Quality of Life, and Depression Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults After a 24-week Dual-Task Training With Variable and Fixed Priority: A Randomi	4
Political Trust, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Cross-National Study	4
Loneliness as a Mediator in the Association Between Social Isolation and Psychological Distress: A Cross-Sectional Study With Older Korean Immigrants in the United States	4
The Moderating Role of Self-Rated Oral Health on the Association Between Oral Health Status and Subjective Well-Being: Findings From Chinese Older Adults in Hawaiʻi and Taiwan	4
A Qualitative Exploration of Rural Older Adults’ Experiences With Pain From Chronic Illnesses and Its Treatment	4
Mattering and Self-Esteem as Bulwarks Against the Consequences of Financial Strain for Loneliness in Later Life: Differentiating Between- and Within-Person Processes	4
A Care Paradox: The Relationship Between Older Adults’ Caregiving Arrangements and Institutionalization and Mortality	4
Caregiving Appraisals and Emotional Valence: Moderating Effects of Activity Participation	3
Utilizing Consumer-Directed Care Among Older Adults: Identifying Barriers From Behavioral Economics Perspectives	3
Key Informants’ Visions and Solutions to Improve Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults and Persons With Dementia	3
Life Events and Loneliness Among Older Women of Diverse Sexual Identities: Application of the Stress Process Model	3
Financial Preparedness for Emergencies: Age Patterns and Multilevel Vulnerabilities	3
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Oral Health Conditions Among Middle-aged and Older Chinese Adults: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Education and Gender	3
Coping Styles as Mediators Between Purpose in Life and Cognitive Function: A Longitudinal Study	3
Associations Between Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Health Among Older US Adults: Comparing Older Asian Americans to Older Adults From Other Major Race-Ethnic Groups	3
New Structure, Traditional Essence: Patterns of Helping Non-Coresident Parents by Own and Sibling(s)’ Gender in China	3
Perceived Stress Predicts Subsequent Self-Reported Problems With Vision and Hearing: Longitudinal Findings From the German Ageing Survey	3
Productive Aging Lifestyles: A Latent Class Analysis of Work and Volunteer Patterns over the Retirement Transition	3
“I Could Have Stood a Little More Education Rather than Just: ‘Hey, you’re Diabetic Man, Make the Best out of It’”: Revisioning Diabetes Self-Management Education for Older Adults	3
Cohort and Gender Differences in Stability Over Five Years Among Mexican-Origin Caregivers to Older Adults Living With Cognitive Impairment	3
The Socialization of Unpaid Family Caregivers: A Scoping Review	3
Social Participation Through the Retirement Transition: Differences by Gender and Employment Status	3
Trajectory of Cognitive Decline Across Different Racial/Ethnic Groups: The Role of Edentulism	3
Changing Age Segregation in the US: 1990 to 2010	3
Communication Modalities, Personality Traits, and Change in Perceived Control Over Social Life Following Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Older Americans	2
Offspring Education and Parents’ COVID-19 Vaccination	2
“This is Slowly Becoming my Interest…”: The Understanding of Leisure and Preferences for Leisure Activities of People Receiving Adult Day Services	2
Mothers’ Functional Limitations and Relationship Quality With Adult Children: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Race and Gender	2
Division of Household Labor in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Couple-Centered Approach	2
Relationship of Living and Eating Arrangements to Mental Distress Among Older Korean Immigrants: Gender Difference in the Mediating Role of Loneliness	2

The Role of Generativity in Later Life in the Case of Productive Activities: Does the Type of Active Aging Activity Matter?	2
Experiences of Civic Participation Among Older African American and Latinx Immigrant Adults in the Context of an Ageist and Racist Society	2
The Time Divide: Daily Activity Patterns of Midlife and Older Adults in China	2
Childhood Adversities and Unmet Needs of Older Chinese Adults: The Mediation Effects of Family Relationships	2
Can an Aging Leopard Change Its Spots? The Role of Mindset of Aging on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes in Older Adults	2
The Relationship Between Multimorbidity and Types of Chronic Diseases and Self-Rated Memory	2
Changes in Generalized and Particularized Trust and Their Link to Depressive Symptoms: Exploring the Roles of Changes in Self-Rated Health, Family Support and Life Satisfaction Among Chinese Older Adu	2
Intergenerational Influence of African American, Caribbean and Hispanic/Latino Adults Regarding Decision to Participate in Health-Related Research	2
Grandparenting, Social Relations, and Mortality in Old Age	2
Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Sleep Quality in Mid to Late Life	2
Does Receiving Informal Care Lead to Better Health Outcomes? Evidence From China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey	2
Retirement and Volunteering in Germany – Historical Changes and Social Inequalities	2
Interpersonal Correlates of Dementia Caregivers’ Emotional Support Networks: Considering Family History	2
Linking Multi-Dimensional Religiosity in Childhood and Later Adulthood: Implications for Later Life Health	2
Capacity or Necessity? Comparing the Socio-Economic Distribution of Productive Activities Between Italy and South Korea	2
Social Mobility and Sense of Purpose From Midlife to Old Age: Examining the Role of Major Life Events	2