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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How reported outbreak data can shape individual behavior in a social world	78
Prioritizing COVID-19 test utilization during supply shortages in the late phase pandemic	40
A prescription drug monitoring program, data sharing, and upholding states’ rights under the United States Constitution	39
Correction: Assessing the health consequences of northern Ethiopian armed conflict, 2022	31
Harm reduction in tobacco control: where do we draw the line?	28
Documenting and preventing the impacts of war	20
Oral health is an integral part of maternal and child health	20
Should we still talk about crisis?	19
How to find nothing 2.0	19
Adolescent autonomy for the COVID-19 vaccine	16
Can fixing dinner fix the planet?	14
Correction to: Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022	13
Undocumented donors: how driver’s licenses can help solve the U.S. organ shortage	12
Could we survive a belief crisis?	12
Is the press properly presenting the epidemiological data on COVID-19? An analysis of newspapers from 25 countries	11
Use of the Delphi method as an instrument of community participation in health needs assessment	11
Challenges of online surveys and synthetic data in achieving reproducibility in public health research: echoes of the “rise of the machines”	11
Evolution of telemedicine in China during COVID-19 pandemic: from 2020 to 2022	10
Measuring income-associated inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination on a global scale: a modeling study	10
Determinants of neonatal, infant and under-five mortalities: evidence from a developing country, Bangladesh	10
Advancing health policy development through cross-cultural teams: examples from two global maternal and child health policies	10
COVID-19 vaccination in correctional systems in the United States	9
The relationship between income, weight, and using traffic-light labeling to buy processed food in Ecuador	9
Alcohol imagery in popular films in China, 2001–2020	8
First, do no harm: why anti-immigrant policies in the United States are a public health concern	8

Correction to: Nuclear bomb and public health	8
Enhancing children’s awareness of sexual abuse in Pakistan with video literacy interventional cartoons	8
“Because We Are Afraid”: voices of the undocumented in a new immigrant destination in the United States	8
Community engagement: the missing piece in solving the puzzle of XDR-typhoid spread in Pakistan	7
Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters	7
See, seek, support: a policy framework to uplift first-generation low-income medical professionals	7
Implementation and impact of integrated health and social care services: an umbrella review	7
Intellectual humility in public health training, research, and practice	7
A public health framework for the equitable global allocation of vaccines: COVID-NEEDS	7
Critical healthcare for older adults post Hurricane Ian in Florida, United States	7
The need for a holistic approach toward pandemic control: lessons from a cross-sectional study on COVID-19 in Meghalaya, India	7
Firearm transactions and background checks in Missouri, USA in 2020	7
Policy gains on a small island	7
A call to action: securing an uninterrupted supply of Africa’s medical products and technologies post COVID-19	7
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	7
Trends in trust of professional groups in Portugal during COVID-19	6
Where is the money? Insights into China’s post-COVID healthcare corruption-busting campaign	6
Diets high in subsidized foods and chronic kidney disease in Hispanic communities in the United States: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos	6
Inequalities in women’s health insurance coverage before and after the implementation of universal health insurance in Indonesia	6
Evaluating Chinese migrant workers’ housing conditions by diarrhea disease prevalence	6
Flavored electronic nicotine delivery system product use among adults in New York State post-statewide restriction implementation	6
International humanitarian law violations in northern Uganda: victims' health, policy, and programming implications	6
Telling truth with data visuals: a guide for public health professionals	6
Health workforce retention in low-income settings: an application of the Root Stem Model	6
Patterns and predictors of non-communicable disease multimorbidity among older adults in India: evidence from longitudinal ageing study in India (LASI), 2017–2018	6
Perceived social measures and drinking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand	5
A “food insecurity poverty line” to replace the official threshold in Canadian rural and urban settings? A single-person household perspective	5
Salt: a narrative review and local policy initiatives in Israel	5
Telemedicine is now legal in Armenia, how to make it a routine clinical practice?	5
Progress and challenges in tobacco control policies in Mexico, 2003–2017: an approach using the Tobacco Control Scale	5
Challenges and opportunities of vaccination during pregnancy: perspectives of 20 healthcare professionals	4
Caregiver perceptions of England’s universal infant school meal provision during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Risk messaging style and its effect on public preparedness for earthquakes: longitudinal intervention-based study	4
Leaving no-one behind in the workplace health promotion: towards regulatory equity in the Ecuadorian micro-enterprises	4
North Korean arrivals’ medical service usage in South Korea, 2015–2019	4
Engaging black and minority ethnic groups in health research: ‘hard to reach’? Demystifying the misconceptions	4
Implementation of Canada’s youth justice minimum age of 12: implications for children in Canada and globally	4
State adoption of paid sick leave and cardiovascular disease mortality among adults in the United States, 2008–2019	3
Exploring the capacity and challenges to strengthen the health system performance for future outbreaks of Aedes-borne diseases in Puducherry, India	3
Health without borders: equity, inclusion, and sustainability	3
Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and subjective poverty in Russia	3
Caregiver policies in the United States: a systematic review	3
Advocating for breast cancer reconstructive surgery access in the United States	3
Global health and social work professions take action on equality and sustainability: returning to our roots	3
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	3
Factors influencing attraction and retention of frontline health workers in remote and rural areas in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment	3
Trends in tuberculosis and inequality-adjusted Human Development Index in Brazil, 2018–2022	3
A mistake-find exercise: a teacher’s tool to engage with information innovations, ChatGPT, and their analogs	3
High transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Amazonia, Brazil: an epidemiological strategy to contain severe cases of COVID-19	3
What motivates citizens to participate in health democracy concerning end of life? Lessons from a citizen’s convention in France	3

Gambling advertising regulation in Ghana: what do we know and where to next?	3
Consequences of microaggresion, macroagression, and mega-aggression from the public health perspective	3
Precision public health: is it all about the data?	3
Achieving paid family leave in Oregon, USA: analysis of the policy process using the advocacy coalition framework	3
Correlation between tobacco control policies and the smoking behaviors of European adolescents from 2005 to 2019	3
The role of thought experiments as sources of insights and lessons to tackle pandemics and other existential threats	2
The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity	2
COVID-19, migrants, and world large urban areas: a thematic policy brief	2
Why does the COVAX facility fail to bridge the ‘immunization gap’?	2
Dietary knowledge, preferred diet, and cooking patterns: evidence from eastern China	2
Food-based domestic violence and anemia among women in sexual unions in Nigeria: the effect of urbanization	2
Correction: Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters	2
Cold housing environments: defining the problem for an appropriate policy response	2
Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax implementation and changes in interior marketing displays	2
Health professional retention in underserved areas: findings from the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program participants in the United States, 2019–2021	2
Urgent action needed: addressing the regulatory gap in e-cigarette trade and usage	2
What informs oral health and chronic disease policy development in Australia: a citation analysis	2
Nuclear war and the public health community: the responsibility to act	2
Achievements of the WFPHA International Immunization Policy Taskforce	2
The economic imperatives for technology enabled wellness centered healthcare	2
How well global dietary intake estimates agree: a case of sodium consumption	2
Contraceptive knowledge and utilization among adolescent girls in Indonesia	2
Secondhand smoke exposure from the indoor and outdoor shisha centers located at the perimeter of educational institutions in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study	2
Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Testing behaviour change with an artificial intelligence chatbot in a randomized controlled study	2
Understanding attitudes, knowledge, and use of e-health services in the health system in Spain	2
Is nutrition labeling associated with decreased obesity? A quantitative approach to nutritional health policy in Ecuador	2
Factors associated with Afghan household food security pre- and post-Taliban regime	2
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	2
COVID-19 Pandemic: the case of Cameroon	2
Publisher Correction to: Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative	2
Evaluation of “Catch Up to Get Ahead” efforts on administration of routine childhood vaccinations during COVID-19 pandemic, United States Indian Health Service, 2020	1
How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science	1
Implementation costs of sugary drink policies in the United States	1
Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative	1
Causal AI for public health research and policy: a journey back to the future	1
The role of the private sector in public health: experience from the CONMEBOL Copa América 2020 tournament	1
The ethics of encouraging employees to get the COVID-19 vaccination	1
Ways out of the crisis: how gender equality can help overcome COVID-19	1
Vaccine distribution exacerbates the social divide	1
On the way to recovery with the help of a keystone species	1
Epidemiological profile of the natural hazards-related disasters in Asia from 2000 to 2021	1
Who is responsible for AI-generated public health policies?	1
Recommendations for maternal mental health policy in India	1
Association of cigarette excise taxes and clean indoor air laws with change in smoking behavior in the United States: a Markov modeling analysis	1
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	1
Statistics behind the headlines by A. John Bailer and Rosemary Pennington	1
Child mortality inequalities and socioeconomic determinants of health in Iran, 2016–2018	1
Exploring a shared vision for success in permanent supportive housing: a community-partnered study in Colorado, USA	1
Spatial analysis of community service availability in rural Kentucky, United States	1
Missingness and algorithmic bias: an example from the United States National Outbreak Reporting System, 2009–2019	1
Social vulnerability and its association with food insecurity in the South African population: findings from a National Survey	1
Governments’ accountability for Canada’s pandemic response	1
Screening participants with inflammatory bowel disease or high colorectal cancer risk in Denmark: a cohort study	1
Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion, access to health care, and financial behavior of the United States adults	1
Implementation of a non-communicable disease clinic in rural Sierra Leone: early experiences and lessons learned	1
Actionable partnerships for shaping healthcare’s future by closing the equitable access gap and delivering meaningful change	1
Does family medicine reduce household health expenditures: evidence from Türkiye	1
Perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students in Australia: a qualitative study	1
Correction: Oral health is an integral part of maternal and child health	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
The transgender phenomenon: needs for research	1
State laws on intimate partner violence witnessed by children in the United States	1
Are healthful behavior change policies ever unethical?	1
The hidden imbalance in neighbourhood nutrition environment: a perspective from lower-middle-income country setting	1
From evidence to advice in France, Germany, and the UK: transparency, accountability, and participation in pandemic science advice	1
Examining variation in the relationship between disability and physical activity across Australian local government areas	1
How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19	1
Unveiling the invisible: the power of MENA data in advancing health equity in the United States	1