OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Women & Aging 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
Older women as crone: A radical imaginary for the common good	32
The spousal role of middle-aged Iranian women: A qualitative content-analysis study	17
Sources of empowerment and mental health among retired men and women: An ecological perspective	14
Embracing change: Older women’s reflections on resources for aging successfully	13
COVID-19 and depressive symptoms among older adults in South Korea	12
African-Caribbean women ageing without children: Does African-Caribbean culture and religious identity shape their experiences?	12
Navigating power and silence: Communicative disenfranchisement in menopause healthcare communication	10
“Three women make a drama”: Neighborhood interactions among older Chinese female migrants	9
The prevalence of depression and its association with sociodemographic factors in menopausal women in South Korea	9
Czech women’s motivations for and lived experiences with anti-ageing cosmetic/aesthetic surgery journey	7
Menopausal symptoms and attitudes toward hormone replacement therapy among Israeli women	7
Older women caring for others and needing care	7
“But…I survived”: A phenomenological study of the health and wellbeing of aging Black women in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada	6
The dilemmas of maternal practices and care strategies for middle-aged and older women under China’s delayed retirement policy	5
Work and income instability and retirement financial wellbeing for women and men	5
“My wife made me”: motivations for body and beauty work among older Korean and Chinese migrant adults in Australia	5
Doing old(er) age in a translocal context: Turkish-born women’s experiences of ageing, care and post-mortem care practices	5
Context-dependent sexual changes during women’s midlife transitions	5
Gendered agism in the media industry: Disavowal, discrimination and the pushback	4
Scoping review of the role of social support in women Veterans’ psychosocial and health outcomes	4
New insights into the benefits of different modes of physical activity for older women	4
Female caregivers’ contextual complexities and familial power structures within Alzheimer’s care	4
“Not a care home but a political home”: How feminist activism influences women’s aging	4
Beauty work or beauty care? Women’s perceptions of appearance in the second half of life	4
#Thisis40: Body image among adult women who post selfies	4

A mobile telehealth program for behavioral treatment of urinary incontinence in women Veterans: Qualitative evaluation of MyHealth e Bladder	4
Depression in older women who died by suicide: associations with other suicide contributors and suicide methods	4
“It was not an accident”: Women’s experiences of renewing motherhood at 40+	4
Aging women Veterans’ health and well-being: Social and developmental perspectives	4
Intersecting fertility: Educational disparities in Black older women’s health outcomes	3
Unveiling the creative self in midlife: A qualitative study of Italian women’s psychosocial transformation journeys	3
East Tennessee older women’s perceptions of Medicare, Medicaid, and related health policies	3
“I am now being who I am and I’m proud of it”: Hair related personal and social identity and subjective wellbeing of older Black women in the UK	3
“Heat within, heat without– nowhere to escape”: an intersectional perspective on Israeli women’s challenges during menopause	3
“Can money buy health?” A study on the relationship between financial well-being, health, and gender among older Indians	3
Retirement preparedness: A study of gender, marital status, and motivation factors by using a theory of planned behavior model	3
“It’s the not being seen that is most tiresome”: Older women, invisibility and social (in)justice	3
A Study on the effect of lifestyle educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on promoting quality of life of middle-aged women	2
Impact of work type and APOE-e4 status on cognitive functioning in older women	2
Adapting, testing, and refining a resilience intervention for older women with HIV: An open pilot study	2
Assessing the qualities of sleep and life for menopausal women after the February 6 earthquake	2
Loneliness, social isolation, and cardiovascular disease among nonveteran and Veteran women	2
“We are the future”: Advant-aged women speak-out through spoken word poetry	2
Aging women in Russia: Between sexless and sexy oldies	2
Agency in later life: The unrecognised operatrices of a fragmented care system	2
Intersectionality and the role of the lifecourse in older women’s lives	2
Engagement in physical activity among African American women caregivers: a cross-sectional study	2
Relationships among age, motivation, and exercise among women Veterans	2
Sequins, satin, feathers and fur – collaborative costume and the ageing burlesque body	2
Loneliness among Chilean indigenous women: Family, community, and socio-cultural integration as protective factors	2
Appearance management’s impact on identity and well-aging in late Middle-aged Korean women	1
Sex differences in employment history and old age cognition: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study	1
“They say that my years for dying are due, and I should just die”: Gendered ageism in healthcare access in Africa	1
Women’s childbearing histories and their alcohol use at midlife	1
Daughters rewarding mothers’ piteous lives: Eldest daughters caring for aging mothers	1
“We can’t allow ourselves to fall ill”: Health and (self-)discipline in female family caregivers from a gender perspective	1
Impact of gender roles on menopause attitudes, symptoms, and psychological well-being: A predictive and correlational study	1
Cosmetic satisfaction and decision regret in older Chinese breast cancer patients following breast conservation or mastectomy	1
The relationship between postural control and cognitive functioning following Zumba dancing in middle-aged women: A randomized clinical trial	1
Mediating effect of social support on the relationship between social activity and depressive symptoms among older widows in Taiwan	1
Grandmothers residing with grandchildren: Social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health outcomes	1
Gray hair and pink slips: An analysis of Twitter responses to gendered ageism	1
Only daughters caring for their aging mothers in Ufa, Russia	1
Picturing the dance: intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in older women queer square dancers	1