OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population and Environment 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science	39
Environmental inequality in eastern China: socio-economic status and air pollution	23
How climate-induced weather shocks affect sexual and reproductive health: evidence from Vietnam	23
Estimating excess migration associated with tropical storms in the USA 1990–2010	20
To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence	17
Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics	17
Correction: Air pollution and health: patterns of perception and response in Houston, 2000–2022	15
Climate (im)mobilities in the Eastern Hindu Kush: The case of Lotkuh Valley, Pakistan	14
Agricultural droughts and under-five mortality in Côte d’Ivoire: Differential impacts across social and demographic groups	13
An estimate of age structure transition on carbon dioxide emission: panel analysis on Indian states	12
Defend women’s rights and save the trees: a cross-national analysis of women’s immovable property rights and forest loss	11
A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island	10
Drought and migration: a case study of rural Mozambique	10
Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat	9
The effect of the local environment on child nutritional outcomes: how does seasonality relate to wasting amongst children under 5 in south-west coastal Bangladesh?	8
The influence of COVID attitudes on environmental concern: a cross-national perspective	8
How does rural in-migration affect forest clearing and smallholder land use in tropical forest frontiers? Evidence from the Zambian Miombo woodlands	8
Social differences in cause-specific infant mortality at the dawn of the demographic transition: New insights from German church records	7
Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in China: a modified index approach	7
Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate: impact of non-optimal temperatures on life expectancy	6
From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure	6
Not only cold but also heat: the effect of maternal exposure to high temperatures during gestation on neonatal mortality in pre-transitional Casalguidi, 1819–1859	6
Investigating the impacts of rainfall, armed conflict, and COVID-19 shocks on women’s household decision-making among partnered women in Burkina Faso	6

Do climate change and world uncertainty exacerbate gender inequality? Global evidence	6
Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?	6
The effects of environmental stress on global agricultural landownership	6
Breathing dirty air, struggling in school: The case of air pollution and Student Learning in Chile	5
Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh	5
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe	5
Demographic and socioeconomic effects of environmental policies: the 1927 special goat tax and mountain depopulation in Italy	5
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	4
From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation	4
Gender and climate action	4
Residential energy consumption by Japan’s super-aging society: visioning a more sustainable future up to 2040	3
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s	3
Social vulnerability and population loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria	3
Rainfall shocks, soil health, and child health outcomes	3
Does a prolonged hardship reduce life span? Examining the longevity of young men who lived through the 1930s Great Plains drought	3
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century	3
Rainfall and intimate partner violence	3
Socioeconomic disparities in climate vulnerability: neonatal mortality in northern Sweden, 1880–1950	3
Modeling population density guided by land use-cover change model: a case study of Bogotá	3
Residence in infected neighborhoods and fertility decline during the Zika epidemic in Singapore	3
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India	2
What drives parents’ use of air quality indexes during wildfire smoke events: predictors of index knowledge, frequent checking, and following health guidance	2
Extreme events, educational aspirations, and long-term outcomes	2
Disasters and subjective assessments of recovery in the long run	2
Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire	2
Local perceptions of socio-ecological drivers and effects of coastal armoring: the case of Moorea, French Polynesia	2
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America	2
Residential mobility responses to home damage caused by floods, cyclones and bushfires in Australia	2
The influence of population aging on global climate policy	2
Landscape fragmentation and population distribution in refugee camps: evidence from the Rohingya refugee influx in Bangladesh	2
The impact of early-life exposure to high temperatures on child development: evidence from China	2
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances	2
Population and environment: the evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists	2
Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda	2