OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health & Place is 31. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health	115
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities	93
Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort	82
Reduction in the use of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health	72
“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma	70
Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails	62
Examining the geographical distribution of air pollution disparities across different racial and ethnic groups: Incorporating workplace addresses	59
Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel	56
Urban neighborhood factors influencing adolescent health and well-being: A qualitative study among adolescent boys in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands	55
Characteristics of movers and predictors of residential mobility in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort	50
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–2021	45
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales	43
Spatial accessibility and equity of residential care facilities in Beijing from 2010 to 2020	42
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians	42
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites	41
Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19	40
Mobile daily diaries to characterize stressors and acute health symptoms in an environmental justice neighborhood	40
Inside and outside the neighborhood: Short-term and long-term subjective well-being by geographical context	39
Hard-to-reach communities in the rural Ecuador: A qualitative perspective on dietary habits and physical activity	38
Labour will progress where māmā feel safe: Constructing birth-place decision making in primary birth centres	38
Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: Evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study	38
COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: Collective emotions and WASH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies	38
Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study	38
Child and youth physical activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The changing role of the neighbourhood built and social environments	36
Forces at play: A qualitative study of risk aversion, policy and decision making for children's physically active play in schools	36

Highs, lows, and fault lines: The geography of suicide clusters in Ecuador	36
Whose pollution, whose problem? Understanding perceptions of air pollution and implications for clean cooking (for health) in Nairobi schools	34
Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A structural equation modeling approach	33
Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data	33
Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence	32
Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain	31
Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study	31