OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 46. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	246
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	180
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	165
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	146
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	141
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	118
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	106
Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda	101
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	89
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	87
Looking through the cracks: vulnerabilities and deprivation in the Brazilian open drug scenes	84
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	74
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	72
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	72
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	70
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]	69
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	68
Corrigendum to ‘Livable city and depressive symptoms among older adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)’ [Soc. Sci. Med., volume 389 (2026) 1–12/	67
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	66
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	65
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	64
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	63
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	63
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	62
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	61

Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	59
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	57
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	57
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	56
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	55
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	53
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	52
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	52
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	52
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	52
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	50
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	49
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	49
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	48
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	48
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	48
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	47
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	47
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	47
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	47
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	46
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	46
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	46
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	46
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	46