OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Health Policy 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cannabis legalization: a call for the integration of main health and crime indicator domains towards comprehensive policy impact assessments	74
Preparing public health researchers to interact with state-level legislators: evaluation of the Texas Research-to-Policy Collaboration project training	67
How to find nothing 2.0	35
Who is responsible for AI-generated public health policies?	31
Documenting and preventing the impacts of war	26
The role of thought experiments as sources of insights and lessons to tackle pandemics and other existential threats	26
Facing leadership that kills	22
Navigating the ethical landscape: a review of Rochelle Tractenberg’s ethical reasoning and practice	19
Harm reduction in tobacco control: where do we draw the line?	17
Flavored electronic nicotine delivery system product use among adults in New York State post-statewide restriction implementation	16
Conscientious objection and LGBTQ discrimination in the United States	16
Emergency use authorization (EUA), conditional marketing authorization (CMA), and the precautionary principle at the time of COVID-19 pandemic	16
Timeliness of provisional United States mortality data releases during the COVID-19 pandemic: delays associated with electronic death registration system and weekly mortality	15
Secondhand smoke exposure from the indoor and outdoor shisha centers located at the perimeter of educational institutions in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study	12
How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19	12
Prioritizing COVID-19 test utilization during supply shortages in the late phase pandemic	11
Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in Brazil: past, present, and future	10
Weight enumeration in United States anti-bullying laws: associations with rates and risks of weight-based bullying among sexual and gender minority adolescents	10
Patterns and predictors of non-communicable disease multimorbidity among older adults in India: evidence from longitudinal ageing study in India (LASI), 2017–2018	9
How reported outbreak data can shape individual behavior in a social world	9
A prescription drug monitoring program, data sharing, and upholding states’ rights under the United States Constitution	8
Evaluation of “Catch Up to Get Ahead” efforts on administration of routine childhood vaccinations during COVID-19 pandemic, United States Indian Health Service, 2020	8
Influence of participatory monitoring and evaluation on decision-making in maternal and newborn health programs in Mombasa County, Kenya	7
Should we still talk about crisis?	7
Urgent action needed: addressing the regulatory gap in e-cigarette trade and usage	7

Disparities in violent fatal injury among racial and ethnic minorities, 2009–2019: a portfolio analysis of United States—National Institutes of Health	7
Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax implementation and changes in interior marketing displays	7
Correction: Assessing the health consequences of northern Ethiopian armed conflict, 2022	7
International humanitarian law violations in northern Uganda: victims' health, policy, and programming implications	7
Correction To: Where is the money? Insights into China’s post-COVID healthcare corruption-busting campaign	7
Association of cigarette excise taxes and clean indoor air laws with change in smoking behavior in the United States: a Markov modeling analysis	7
Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Screening participants with inflammatory bowel disease or high colorectal cancer risk in Denmark: a cohort study	6
The impact of the Prime Time Sister Circles® (PTSC) on blood pressure of low-income mid-life African American women in the United States	6
Ethical considerations for mandating food worker vaccination during outbreaks: an analysis of hepatitis A vaccine	6
Examining variation in the relationship between disability and physical activity across Australian local government areas	6
Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion, access to health care, and financial behavior of the United States adults	6
Global Public Health Association policies related to women, children and youth	5
Positional goods and the underfunding of public health	5
Is the press properly presenting the epidemiological data on COVID-19? An analysis of newspapers from 25 countries	5
Challenges of online surveys and synthetic data in achieving reproducibility in public health research: echoes of the “rise of the machines”	5
From “learning from the field” to jointly driving change	5
Impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax two-year post-tax implementation in Seattle, Washington, United States	5
Maternal oral health framework: integration of oral health into perinatal care	5
What works to reduce loneliness: a rapid systematic review of 101 interventions	5
Can fixing dinner fix the planet?	5
Psychological reactance to vaccine mandates on Twitter: a study of sentiments in the United States	5
Implementation of a non-communicable disease clinic in rural Sierra Leone: early experiences and lessons learned	5
Special thanks to reviewers for 2020: the COVID-19 year of trial by fire	5
Oral health is an integral part of maternal and child health	5
On the way to recovery with the help of a keystone species	5
Adolescent autonomy for the COVID-19 vaccine	5
The integrity of the antimicrobial supply chain in Bangladesh: assessing the regulatory environment and contextual challenges	5
Undocumented donors: how driver’s licenses can help solve the U.S. organ shortage	5
A united approach to promoting healthy living behaviours and associated health outcomes: a global call for policymakers and decisionmakers	4
Governments’ accountability for Canada’s pandemic response	4
Breaking the silence: a new era for male sexual assault survivors in Japan	4
Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public	4
Correction to: Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022	4
Enhancing public health programs with performance-based memorandum of understanding	4
Ethical allocation of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States: an evaluation of competing frameworks for the current pandemic and future events	4
Salt: a narrative review and local policy initiatives in Israel	4
Is value-based healthcare a strategy to achieve universal health coverage that includes oral health? An Australian case study	4
Bridging global health actors and agendas: the role of national public health institutes	3
Responding to the climate threat: essays on humanity’s greatest challenge by Gary Yohe, Henry Jacoby, Richard Richels and Benjamin Santer	3
Challenges and opportunities of vaccination during pregnancy: perspectives of 20 healthcare professionals	3
Low-wage migrant workers during coronavirus disease 2019: a social determinants analysis	3
Could we survive a belief crisis?	3
Progress and challenges in tobacco control policies in Mexico, 2003–2017: an approach using the Tobacco Control Scale	3
100 seconds to midnight and special thanks to JPHP contributors	3
Dynamic mapping of cholera outbreak during the Yemeni Civil War, 2016–2019	3
Diets high in subsidized foods and chronic kidney disease in Hispanic communities in the United States: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos	3
A “food insecurity poverty line” to replace the official threshold in Canadian rural and urban settings? A single-person household perspective	3
Correction: Maternal oral health framework: integration of oral health into perinatal care	3
PSA screening for prostate cancer in the United States: 30 years of controversy	3

Engaging black and minority ethnic groups in health research: ‘hard to reach’? Demystifying the misconceptions	3
Geo-epidemiological approach of the COVID-19 pandemic in France and in Europe for public health policies	3
Telemedicine is now legal in Armenia, how to make it a routine clinical practice?	3
Perceived social measures and drinking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand	3
Alternative theories of COVID-19: social dimensions and information sources	3
Potential chemical risks from tattoos and their relevance to military health policy in the United States	2
Differences in psychosocial factors of mental health in an ethnically diverse Black adult population	2
COVID-19 vaccination in correctional systems in the United States	2
Factors influencing attraction and retention of frontline health workers in remote and rural areas in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment	2
Global health and social work professions take action on equality and sustainability: returning to our roots	2
Innovative approaches in discussions of diabetes among healthcare sector actors in Germany	2
Prioritising research funding for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Australia	2
Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and subjective poverty in Russia	2
Enhancing children’s awareness of sexual abuse in Pakistan with video literacy interventional cartoons	2
Implementation of Canada’s youth justice minimum age of 12: implications for children in Canada and globally	2
Caregiver perceptions of England’s universal infant school meal provision during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Evaluating the impact of the Medicaid expansion program on diabetes hospitalization	2
The relationship between income, weight, and using traffic-light labeling to buy processed food in Ecuador	2
Social vulnerability, parity and food insecurity in urban South African young women: the healthy life trajectories initiative (HeLTI) study	2
Inventory of state workers’ compensation laws in the United States: first responder mental health	2
An assessment of court fees, surcharges, and penalties for alcohol-impaired driving in five midwestern U.S. states: implications for exacerbating poverty and health inequalities	2
The hidden imbalance in neighbourhood nutrition environment: a perspective from lower-middle-income country setting	2
North Korean arrivals’ medical service usage in South Korea, 2015–2019	2
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic—what Occupational Safety and Health can bring to Public Health	2
Facing COVID-19 in times of armed conflicts in Northern and Central regions of Mozambique	2
Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?	2
Segmentation and fragmentation of health systems and the quest for universal health coverage: conceptual clarifications from the Mexican case	2
“Because We Are Afraid”: voices of the undocumented in a new immigrant destination in the United States	2
Perceptions of incarcerated people: prison conditions, public health, and justice in the United States	2
Missingness and algorithmic bias: an example from the United States National Outbreak Reporting System, 2009–2019	2
Constructing comparable intimate partner violence indicators across the DHS, MICS, and PMA health surveys	2
Measuring income-associated inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination on a global scale: a modeling study	2
Nuclear bomb and public health	1
Mental health and firearms: what is our trajectory in the United States?	1
Factors affecting optimal antenatal care utilization in Indonesia: implications for policies and practices	1
State adoption of paid sick leave and cardiovascular disease mortality among adults in the United States, 2008–2019	1
Ending nuclear weapons before they end us: current challenges and paths to avoiding a public health catastrophe	1
Low utilization of skilled delivery services in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a case for facility delivery improvement	1
Analysis of lead, cadmium, and arsenic in colored cosmetics marketed in Pakistan	1
Evaluating community-driven cardiovascular health policy changes in the United States using agent-based modeling	1
Non-communicable disease risk reduction training for medical graduates in India: context, challenges and opportunities	1
Advancing health equity with artificial intelligence	1
Risk messaging style and its effect on public preparedness for earthquakes: longitudinal intervention-based study	1
Gambling advertising regulation in Ghana: what do we know and where to next?	1
The ethics of encouraging employees to get the COVID-19 vaccination	1
COVID-19 lockdown implementation in Ghana: lessons learned and hurdles to overcome	1
COVID-19 vaccine exclusion based on legal residence is unwise and unethical	1
Vaccine distribution exacerbates the social divide	1
We must practice what we preach: a framework to promote well-being and sustainable performance in the public health workforce in the United States	1
Association of preferred flavorings and device type with box or pack purchase behavior of electronic nicotine delivery systems in the United States	1
Telemedicine during COVID-19 in India—a new policy and its challenges	1
Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study	1
Leaving no-one behind in the workplace health promotion: towards regulatory equity in the Ecuadorian micro-enterprises	1
Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures	1
Perspectives of healthcare workers on drone-enabled healthcare delivery in challenging terrains of Manipur and Nagaland, India: a qualitative research	1
Evolution of telemedicine in China during COVID-19 pandemic: from 2020 to 2022	1
Advancing health policy development through cross-cultural teams: examples from two global maternal and child health policies	1
Stakeholders’ assessment of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contributions to the development of National Public Health Institutes in seven countries	1
Correction: Risk messaging style and its effect on public preparedness for earthquakes: longitudinal intervention-based study	1
First, do no harm: why anti-immigrant policies in the United States are a public health concern	1
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: the race to trace: contact tracing scale-up in San Francisco—early lessons learned	1
Consequences of microaggresion, macroagression, and mega-aggression from the public health perspective	1
Determinants of neonatal, infant and under-five mortalities: evidence from a developing country, Bangladesh	1
Public health inequalities, structural missingness, and digital revolution: time to question assumptions	1
State laws on intimate partner violence witnessed by children in the United States	1