OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law is 1. 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
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities	28
Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America	27
Same as It Ever Was? Persistence and Transformation in US Health Care Policy	25
Section 1115 Substance Use Disorder Waivers: Opportunities and Limitations	23
The Line between Medicaid and Marketplace: Coverage Effects from Wisconsin's Partial Expansion	21
The Politics of the Gender Gap in COVID-19: Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Preferences in the United States	17
EU Economic Governance as a Supranational Determinant of Health Inequalities in the Eurozone	16
The Impacts of Politicization on Public Health Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Oregon and Montana	16
MAHA Will Not Make Americans Healthy Again: The Politicization of US Federal Health Agencies During the Second Trump Administration	16
Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policy	15
Why Some Nonelderly Adult Medicaid Enrollees Appear Ineligible Based on Their Annual Income	15
Assessing US Pharmaceutical Policy and Pricing Reform Legislation in Light of European Price and Cost Control Strategies	15
Public Health Under Attack: Continuity, Discontinuity, and History	14
Medicaid and Accelerated Approval: Spending on Drugs with and without Proven Clinical Benefits	13
The Limits to Food and Beverage Industry Influence over Fiscal and Regulatory Policy in Latin America	13
Medicare for All—Running Down a Dream	12
Authoritarian Regime Legitimacy and Health Care Provision: Survey Evidence from Contemporary China	12
Using New Techniques to Examine the Past: A Computational Assessment of the First 50 Years of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law	12
Marketing Opioids to Veterans and Older Adults: A Content Analysis of Internal Industry Documents Released from State of Oklahoma v. Purdue Pharma LP, et al.	12
State Courts, State Legislatures, and Setting Abortion Policy	12
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life	12
Medicaid's Political Development since 1965: How a Fragmented and Unequal Program Has Expanded	11
State Efforts to Regulate Provider Networks and Directories: Lessons for the Future	11
Implementing Primary Care Reform in France: Bargaining, Policy Adaptation, and the Maisons de Santé Pluriprofessionnelles	11
The EU as a Political Determinant of Global Health: The Case of Research and Development Incentives for Orphan Medicines and Biotechnology	11

Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases	10
The Evolution of Long-Term Care and Health Policy in the United States	9
Does Policy Uncertainty Boost Vaccine Hesitancy? Political Controversy, the FDA, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Fall 2020	9
Building Power for Health: The Grassroots Politics of Sustaining and Strengthening Medicaid	9
Market Failure, State Failure: The Political Economy of Supply Chain Strengthening to Ensure Equitable Access to Vaccines and Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	9
Variation in Public Support for Government Action on Unexpected Medical Bills	8
Vaccine Nationalism: How China's State Media Misinform about Western Vaccines and Highlight the Successes of Chinese Vaccines to Different Audiences	8
International Reference Pricing in the Context of US Drug Policy	8
What the Evolution of 1332 Waivers Tells Us about Their Innovative Potential	8
Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State.	8
How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health	7
Science and Public Health in the Trump Era: The Dismantling of Evidence and Institutions, and Proposals for Reconstruction	7
From Relf v. Weinberger to Drive-Through Delivery: Unpacking Democratic Responsiveness and Administrative Levers in U.S. Sterilization Policy	7
Criminal Records and Licensure in Five Allied Health Professions: Is There Evidence of a Disparate Impact on Historically Marginalized Groups?	7
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion 50 Years afterRoe	7
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices	6
Which US States Are Most Generous in Their Medicaid Policies and Why?	6
Patent Litigation and the Timing of Entry by Biologic Biosimilars Compared to Small Molecule Generics in the U.S., 2015–2015	6
Is Redistribution Good for Our Health? Examining the Macrocorrelation between Welfare Generosity and Health across EU Nations over the Last 40 Years	6
The Political Economy of Market Power in Pharmaceuticals	6
Strategies to Promote Vaccine Uptake in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the “Ladder of Intrusiveness” in Three Countries	6
Administering a Chill Pill? Better Regulation and the Potential for Regulatory Chill in European Union Health Policy	6
Medicaid Waivers to Address Homelessness: Political Development and Policy Trajectories	6
It’s Only a Crisis if It’s Fit to Print: Examining the Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Presence of the Opioid Crisis in State Legislative Campaigns	6
The Political Determinants of Health and the European Union	5
Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination in a Polarized and Partisan United States	5
Medicare at 60: A Popular Program Facing Challenges	5
Potemkin Protections: Assessing Provider Directory Accuracy and Timely Access for Four Specialties in California	5
The Changing Politics of Guns in America	5
Lots of Pain for Little Gain: Three Decades of Medicaid Estate Recovery	5
More Than Words? How Highlighting Target Populations Affects Public Opinion about the Medicaid Program	5
Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good during COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO	5
Self-Sourced Medication Abortion, Physician Authority, and the Contradictions of Abortion Care	4
Dreamscapes of World Health: The History of the World Health Organization	4
HERA-lding More Integration in Health? Examining the Discursive Legitimation of the European Commission's New Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority	4
Reforming the Medicare Part D Benefit Design: Financial Implications for Beneficiaries, Private Plans, Drug Manufacturers, and the Federal Government	4
Factors Affecting State-Level Enforcement of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: A Cross-Case Analysis of Four States	4
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us	4
Partisanship and the Pandemic: How and Why Americans Followed Party Cues on COVID-19	4
The Importance of Dreaming About (and Mobilizing to Create) Equitable Futures	4
Work Requirements and Medicaid Enrollments: Will States Stanch Erosion?	4
Public Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrants during Pregnancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Discussion of Relevant Policies and Evidence	4
Entrenched Opportunity: Medicaid, Health Systems, and Solutions to Homelessness	4
Shifting Federal and State Policy Landscapes for Health Insurance Coverage of Noncitizen Immigrants: Where Are We 30 Years After PRWORA?	4
Popular Votes on Tobacco Tax Increases, 2012–2022	4
Political Partisanship, Trust, and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccines in Indonesia	4
A Framework for Studying EU Health Policy through a Political Determinants of Health Lens: The Case of the European Health Union	4
“Thoughts and Prayers”: The (Non) Effect of Partisan Responses to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion	3
Centralization vs. Decentralization in COVID-19 Responses: Lessons from China	3
Medicare at 60: Many Successes but More Work to Do	3

Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	3
Insulin Shocks	3
Emergency Regulatory Procedures, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Politics, and the Political Economy of Vaccine Regulation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care	3
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors	3
Awareness of COVID-19 at the Local Level: Perceptions and Political Consequences	3
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies	3
What Information Elicits Policy Enthusiasm? Older Americans, the ACA, and Medicare	3
Introduction: Entrenchment and Health Equity	3
Checkmating the Nutri-Score: Will Food Patriotism Prevent the Harmonization of Front-of-Pack Labeling Schemes within the EU?	3
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough	3
Legislative and Regulatory Options for Improving Medicare Advantage	2
Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada	2
Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics	2
Escaping Policy Traps: Strategic Options for Overcoming Entrenchment	2
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth	2
Never Waste a Crisis: The Past, Present, and Future of FDA Reform	2
The Changing Role of the Government in American Health Law	2
Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates: Conflict and Change in California, 2012–2019	2
Reduction in Medicaid Rebates Paid by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers for Outpatient Infused, Injected, Implanted, Inhaled, or Instilled Drugs: The 5i Loophole	2
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda	2
Entrenchment and Health Equity: Lessons for Advocates, Policy Makers, and Researchers	2
The Affordable Care Act: At the Nexus of Politics and Policy	2
Value-Based Insurance Design: Clinically Nuanced Consumer Cost Sharing to Increase the Use of High-Value Medications	2
Don't Take Your Guns to Town? Rural Socialization and the Long-Term Politics of Firearms	2
Newer Comparisons	1
Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States	1
On the Importance and Intrinsic Difficulties of Incorporating Health Insurance Benefits in Absolute Poverty Trends	1
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America	1
History and Politics of Medication Abortion in the United States and the Rise of Telemedicine and Self-Managed Abortion	1
County-Level Segregation and Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes	1
Introduction: Medicaid at 60	1
State Regulation and Hospital Community Benefit Spending in Medicaid Expansion States	1
Mental Health in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Insights from Trump's Second Term	1
Embracing Controversy: A Second Look at CDC Reform Efforts in the Wake of COVID-19	1
State Capacity and COVID-19: Targeted versus Population-Wide Restrictions	1
Unending War: Realities of Health Care Systems for America's Soldiers and Veterans	1
The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases	1
Impervious to Elite Influence: Americans’ ACA Attitudes, 2009–2020	1
Expertise as a Response to Limited Multilateralism: The Case of South Korea's Vaccine Procurement Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccines amid Unequal Access via the COVAX Facility	1
“The CDC Won't Let Me Be”: The Opinion Dynamics of Support for CDC Regulatory Authority	1
Medicare at 60	1
The Paradoxical Politics of Community Health Centers from the Great Society to the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Social Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in France	1
Introduction: JHPPL at 50	1
Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook	1
Pandemic Times and Health Care Exclusion: Attitudes toward Health Care Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants	1
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution	1
Runaway Polarization Is Making Us Sick; Social Science Could Offer an Antidote	1
Invoking Identity? Partisan Polarization in Discussions of Race, Racism, and Gender in 2022 Midterm Advertising in the United States	1
Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism	1
A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding the Disconnection between Perceptions of Abortion Acceptability and Support for Roe v. Wade among US Adults	1