OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine is 7. 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
Bringing Sectors Together in Da Nang, Vietnam: Participatory Systems Mapping	259
Extreme Heat and Firearm Violence in New York City Public Housing: The Mitigating Role of Air Conditioning	111
Housing Discrimination and Health of Public Housing Residents in Korea: An Examination of Gender Heterogeneity	46
Promoting Inclusive Recruitment: a Qualitative Study of Black Adults’ Decision to Participate in Genetic Research	44
Temporal and Spatial Trends of Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in a Sample of Births from a Public Hospital in Chile	41
Gun Violence Exposure and Quality of Life in Nine US States	41
School-Based Health Centers and Use of Effective Contraception among Sexually Active Female Teens in NYC Public High Schools	39
Examining Experiences of Gender Identities, Roles, and Relations among Men with Same-Gender Sexual Histories: Implications of Gender Nonconformity on Access to Quality Healthcare in Urban Ghana	37
Assessing Market Food Diversity of Three Food Environments of Nairobi, Kenya, Using Spatial and Descriptive Analyses	37
Does Urban Greenspace Reduce Mortality Inequalities Based on Poverty, Race, or Both in Philadelphia, PA?	36
Actual and Virtual Parks Benefit Quality of Life and Physical Activity: A Cluster Trial	35
Is it Time to Antiquate the Term “Landlord?”	35
New York City’s Stop, Question, and Frisk Policy and Psychiatric Emergencies among Black Americans	31
Experiences, Expectations, and Satisfaction with Police—a Population-Based Study of Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Two Counties	30
Urban–Rural Disparity in Birth Cohort Effects on Breast Cancer Incidence	30
Association Between Park Use and Moderate-to-Vigorous Activity During COVID-19 Years among a Cohort of Low-Income Youth	29
The Relationship between Youth Police Stops and Depression among Fathers	29
Urban Foodscape in Transition: Spatiotemporal Characteristics in Healthy and Unhealthy Food Outlets and Socioeconomic Disparities in Wuhan During 2012–2022	28
Impact of Housing Construction Materials on Indoor Temperatures in Urban Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh	26
Characterizing Multisystem Barriers to Women’s Residential SUD Treatment: A Multisite Qualitative Analysis in Los Angeles	26
Resident-Led Research Policy and Power (RRPP): A Framework for Centering Community Voice in Participatory Research	25
Per Capita Spending on Parks and Associations with Cardiovascular Disease and Other Health Outcomes	23
Impact of Different Greenspace Metrics on Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in Urban Settings: A Comparative Analysis	22
Impact of Urban Green on Population Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review	22
Drug Overdose Death among Residents of Urban Census Tracts: How Granular Geographical Analyses Uncover Socioenvironmental Correlates in Cuyahoga County, Ohio	21

Implications and Lessons Learned While Using Social Media Advertisements to Promote Longitudinal Social Network Study Participation in Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men (LMSM): A Brief Report	21
Feasibility and Acceptability of Standardizing Portions in Restaurants	21
Gayborhoods as Spaces of Risk and Resilience: Associations of Gayborhood Residence with Psychological Distress and Substance Use among Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minority Men	20
Latent Class Profiles of Police Violence Exposure in 4 US Cities and Their Associations with Anticipation of Police Violence and Mental Health Outcomes	20
Urban Nutrition in the Global South: A Narrative Review of Current Research	20
The Contribution of Homelessness to Opioid Overdose Mortality and Associated Racial Disparities	20
Designing for a Healthier Indore, India: Participatory Systems Mapping	20
Patterns of Socioeconomic Marginalization among People Who Use Drugs: A Gender-Stratified Repeated Measures Latent Class Analysis	20
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Association of Victimization by Sex among Public Facing Bus and Subway Transit Workers, New York City	20
Measuring Spatial Social Polarization in Public Health Research: A Scoping Review of Methods and Applications	20
Examining Long-Term Mental Health Outcomes Associated with Childhood Gun Violence Exposure: Variations by Race/Ethnicity and Gender	19
Small Business Support Is Associated with the Quantity, Quality, and Usage of Youth Physical Activity Opportunities in Urban, Low-Income, African American Neighborhoods	17
Less-Lethal Weapons and Civilian Injury in Police Use of Force Encounters: A Multi-agency Analysis	16
Smartphone GPS-Based Exposure to Greenspace and Walkability and Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Early Postpartum—Evidence from the MADRES Cohort	16
Scale-Up of COVID-19 Testing Services in NYC, 2020–2021: Lessons Learned to Maximize Reach, Equity and Timeliness	16
Community Acceptability of the First State-Authorized Overdose Prevention Center in the United States	15
Changes of Grocery Shopping Frequencies and Associations with Food Deserts during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	15
Trends in Temperature-associated Mortality in São Paulo (Brazil) between 2000 and 2018: an Example of Disparities in Adaptation to Cold and Heat	15
Mortality Risk from Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease Associated with Short-Term Co-Exposure to Summer Heatwave and Ozone	15
Programmatic, Environmental, and Temporal Predictors of Violence, Overdose, and Self-Injury in Homeless Shelters in Toronto, Canada, 2012–2021	15
Effectiveness of an Energy-Counseling Intervention in Reducing Energy Poverty: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Study in a Southern European City	14
Urban Care for Unpaid Caregivers: Community Voices in the Care Block Program, in Bogotá, Colombia	14
The Relationship between Concealed Carry Licenses and Firearm Homicide in the US: A Reciprocal County-Level Analysis	14
Comparing Neighborhood Indices of Socioeconomic Status, Segregation, and Healthcare Access for Predicting Late-Stage Breast Cancer	13
From the Compact City to the X-Minute neighborhood: A Systematic Review of the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Sustainable Urban Development Models (SUDMs) on Women	13
Acceptability of Overdose Prevention Sites in the Business Community in Baltimore, Maryland	13
Global Measures of HIV Care Accessibility Across Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas	13
The Differences by Sex and Gender in the Relationship Between Urban Greenness and Cardiometabolic Health: A Systematic Review	13
Trends in Suicidality and Bullying among New York City Adolescents across Race and Sexual Identity: 2009–2019	13
Individual and Interactive Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Quality on Mental Health in Hong Kong: A Retrospective Cohort Study	12
Challenges Unique to Transgender Persons in US Correctional Settings: a Scoping Review	12
Barriers and Facilitators to Trust in the COVID-19 New York City Test and Trace Program	12
2023 Reviewer List	12
Associations of Urban Built Environment with Cardiovascular Risks and Mortality: a Systematic Review	12
A Novel Index Measure of Housing-Related Risk as a Predictor of Overdose Among Young People Who Inject Drugs and Injection Networks	12
Historical Bias in Mortgage Lending, Redlining, and Implications for the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: A Study of Structural Housing Discrimination in Dallas and Boston	12
Still Separate, Still Not Equal: An Ecological Examination of Redlining and Racial Segregation with COVID-19 Vaccination Administration in Washington D.C.	12
Dwelling Form and Heat-Related Well-Being in a Semi-Arid City: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Apartment and Detached-House Residents in Irbid, Jordan	12
Healthcare in the Margins: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Access and Utilization in Bangladesh’s Informal Urban Settlements	11
A Good Farewell? Positive Exits from Federal Housing Assistance and Lower Acute Healthcare Utilization	11
Relationship between Civilian Injuries Caused during Contact with Law Enforcement and Community-Level Sociodemographic Characteristics	11
“What Good Is That?”—Perspectives of Using Telehealth to Discuss Serious Illness with Urban-Dwelling Low-Income Older Adults in Assisted Living	11
Trading-Off Transit and Non-Transit Physical Activity among Older People: Evidence from Longitudinal Accelerometer Data of a Natural Experiment Study	11
Effect of Perceived Neighborhood Environment on Cannabis Use during Pregnancy among African American Women	11
Area-Level Factors of Dental Caries in Children and Adolescents in European Neighborhoods — a Systematic Review	11
Predicting Short Time-to-Crime Guns: a Machine Learning Analysis of California Transaction Records (2010–2021)	11
Emergency Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Causes Attributable to Air Pollution and Extreme Temperatures in Spain: Influence of Economic and Demographic Factors in a Nationwide Study	11
Examining Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Young Survivors of Urban Violence	10
Urban Form Metrics for Promoting Walking: Street Layouts and Destinations	10
Participatory Systems Mapping for Municipal Prioritization and Planning	10

Erosion of the Capital City Advantage in Child Survival and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Intervention Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Can New-type Urbanization Pave a Way against Depression? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China	10
Building a Culture of Health Through the Built Environment: Impact of a Cluster Randomized Trial Remediating Vacant and Abandoned Property on Health Mindsets	10
Factors Associated with Progression to Type 2 Diabetes among Women with Gestational Diabetes	10
Is Income and Racial Residential Segregation Associated with 13-Year Changes in Body Mass Index? A Longitudinal Analysis in the Brazilian Pró-Saúde Cohort Study	10
“I am a survivor!”: Violently Injured Black Men’s Perceptions of Labeling After a Violent Firearm Injury	10
Announcement	9
Latinx: Sí, Se Puede? A Reflection on the Terms Past, Present, and Future	9
Overdose Prevention and Housing: a Qualitative Study Examining Drug Use, Overdose Risk, and Access to Safer Supply in Permanent Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada	9
Strategies to Reduce Frequent Emergency Department Use among Persons Experiencing Homelessness with Mental Health Conditions: a Scoping Review	9
Trends and Inequalities in Maternal and Newborn Health Services for Unplanned Settlements of Lusaka City, Zambia	9
Perceptions of Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy Among People Living with HIV Who Use Drugs and Service Providers: a Qualitative Analysis in Rhode Island	9
The Inherent Violence of Anti-Black Racism and its Effects on HIV Care for Black Sexually Minoritized Men	9
Psychophysiological Responses of College Students to Audio-Visual Forest Trail Landscapes	8
High Child Mortality and Interventions Coverage in the City of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Are the Poorest Paying an Urban Penalty?	8
Community-Academic Partnership to Assess the Role of Physical Disinvestment on Firearm Violence in Toledo, OH	8
The Health and Economic Impact of Using a Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax to Fund Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies in New York City: A Modeling Study	8
Social Vulnerability and Biological Aging in New York City: An Electronic Health Records-Based Study	8
The Relationship of Historical Redlining with Present-Day Neighborhood Environmental and Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Model	8
Virtual Assessment of Physical Activity–Related Built Environment in Soweto, South Africa: What Is the Role of Contextual Familiarity?	8
A Price Too High: Injury and Assault among Delivery Gig Workers in New York City	8
Asbestos Poverty as a New Paradigm for Multidimensional Urban Sustainability	8
Telehealth as a Tool to Improve Access and Reduce No-Show Rates in a Large Safety-Net Population in the USA	8
Examining a Hypothesized Causal Chain for the Effects of the 2007 Repeal of the Permit-to-Purchase Licensing Law in Missouri: Homicide Guns Recovered in State and within a Year of Purchase	7
Income Loss and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States—Investigating the Moderating Role of Race and Metro-Level Co-ethnic Density	7
Risky Party and Nightclub Attendance during the COVID-19 Nightlife Shutdown in New York City	7
“This is Going to Get Worse”: Immigrant Reactions to the Public Charge Rule in a Large Northeastern City	7
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Austerity, Health and Public Safety in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Grassroots Responses to the Decline of Local Services in Southeast England	7
Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Mobility, Safety, and Equity for Persons with Vision Loss in Urban Environments	7
Effect of In utero Exposure to Air Pollution on Adulthood Hospitalizations	7
Modeling Geographical Accessibility and Inequalities to Childbirth Services in the Grand Nokoué Metropolitan Area, Benin	7
Using Wastewater to Monitor Suggested Changes in Dietary Intake: A Participatory Experiment	7
The U-Shape Association Between Noise and Individual Depression: Nationwide Longitudinal Evidence from Three Waves of CHARLS	7
County-Level COVID-19 Policy Comprehensiveness and Adult Behavioral Health during 2021	7
Spatial and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cesarean Section Deliveries in Urban Settings in Dakar, Senegal	7
Key Age-Friendly Components of Municipalities that Foster Social Participation of Aging Canadians: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	7
Neighborhood Factors as Correlates of Alcohol Use in the N2 Cohort Study of Black Sexually Minoritized Men and Transgender Women	7