Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Science & Medicine is 56. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests1108
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.648
How and why patients made Long Covid492
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review338
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study336
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents323
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19293
The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue269
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective254
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults254
Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID-19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic249
The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review239
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries191
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic184
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities143
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review131
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19118
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors116
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis114
Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research104
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions101
Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment96
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?95
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis94
Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine91
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers87
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review87
Excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: Early evidence from England and Wales86
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China83
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework82
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States81
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany80
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults79
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis77
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism72
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion71
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries69
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions69
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies68
Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China67
Long Covid – The illness narratives67
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.66
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review66
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility64
Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic62
“We are fierce, independent thinkers and intelligent”: Social capital and stigma management among mothers who refuse vaccines61
Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings60
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States59
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom59
Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment59
COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries59
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature58
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis58
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries57
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation56
Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease56
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