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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	3093
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	214
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	214
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	131
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	119
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	116
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	114
Editorial Board	113
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	113
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	112
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	109
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	103
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	87
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	81
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	78
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	78
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]	74
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	74
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	73
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	72
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	72
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	71
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	70
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	68
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	67

Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	67
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	64
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	63
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	63
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	62
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	62
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	60
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	59
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	59
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	58
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	58
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	57
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	56
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	56
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	55
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	55
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	54
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	54
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	54
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	54
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	53
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	53
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	53
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	52
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	52
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	52
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	51
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	51
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	51