OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 51. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	3279
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	226
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	216
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	132
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	123
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	121
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	120
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	117
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	116
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	109
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	104
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	88
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	86
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	83
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	82
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	77
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	75
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	74
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	74
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	73
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	73
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	73
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	72
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	71
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	67

The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	65
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	64
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	64
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	64
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	64
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	63
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	63
A network analysis of ‘thinking a lot’: Connections to childhood trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among men who have sex with men in Vietnam	59
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in Adult Social Care	58
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	58
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	58
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	58
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	58
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	57
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	57
Corrigendum to “Determinants and transition of anaemia among under-five children from different social groups in India from 2005-06 to 2015–16” [Soc. Sci. Med. 320 (2022) 115702]	57
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	56
The impact of home mechanical ventilation on the time and manner of death for those with Motor neurone disease (MND): A qualitative study of bereaved family members	55
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	54
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	54
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	54
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	53
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	53
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	52
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	51
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	51
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	51
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	51