OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 50. 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
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	2945
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	210
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	197
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	133
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	131
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	118
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	112
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	108
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	108
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	107
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	106
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	103
Editorial Board	102
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	101
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	84
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	80
Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment	78
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	75
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	74
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	72
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	71
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	71
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	70
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	69
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	69

Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	69
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]	68
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	66
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	66
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	64
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	62
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	62
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth: Pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course trajectories	61
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	61
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	61
I feel the pains of our past water struggles anytime I turn on the tap: Diaspora perceptions and experiences of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) gendered violence in Ghana	61
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	59
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	59
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	57
Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Persistent Infection Burden: Links to Cellular Immunosenescence in U.S. Young Adults	57
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	56
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	55
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	54
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	54
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	54
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	54
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	53
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	53
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	51
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	51
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	50
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	50
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	50
Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	50
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	50
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	50
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	50