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
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	95
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	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
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	69
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	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
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	63
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
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	62
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	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
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	60
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
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	59
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
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	58
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	58
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	57
“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
“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
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	54
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	54
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	52
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