OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 52. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	2472
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	201
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	164
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	126
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	123
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	121
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	111
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	104
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	99
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	97
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	96
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	95
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	95
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	93
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	90
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	85
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	81
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	80
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	77
Mental health spillovers from serious family illness: Doubly robust estimation using EQ-5D-5L population normative data	71
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	69
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	69
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	68
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	66
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	64

Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	64
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	63
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	63
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	63
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	62
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	62
From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia	61
Editorial Board	61
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	60
Editorial Board	60
Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	60
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	60
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	59
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]	59
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	59
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	58
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	58
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	57
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	55
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	55
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	55
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	54
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	54
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	52
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	52
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	52