OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demographic Research is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates	39
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal	37
International completeness of death registration	26
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature	21
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis	21
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network	20
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods	18
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States	18
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel	18
The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–2014	17
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data	17
Should we be concerned about low fertility? A discussion of six possible arguments	16
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death	16
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?	16
Accuracy of wives' proxy reports of husbands' fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa	16
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions: The distinctive experience of sub-Saharan Africa	15
First reproductive experience: A survey module	14
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–2023	14
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India	14
Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background	13
Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality	13
Diverse pathways in young Italians’ entrance into sexual life: The association with gender and birth cohort	13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa	12
To what extent were life expectancy gains in South Africa attributable to declines in HIV/AIDS mortality from 2006 to 2017? A life table analysis of age-specific mortality	12
Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic	11

Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures	11
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation	11
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants’ and natives’ gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain	11
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy	11
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database	11
Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century	10
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard	10
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach	10
Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents	10
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions	9
Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom	9
Assessing the demographic impact of migration on the working-age population across European territories	9
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay	9
A dyadic approach to the study of perceived subfecundity and contraceptive use	9
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020	8
The educational gradient in young singlehood: The role of gender and the gender climate	8
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea	8
Household transitions between ages 5 and 15 and educational outcomes: Fathers and grandparents in Peru	8
The surge in living alone among young and middle-aged adults: A decomposition analysis of the rise in one-person households in Germany, 1991 to 2021	8
On the momentum of pseudostable populations	8
Shifting spousal age gaps in Kenya and Ghana: Does education matter?	8
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions	8
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 1918	8
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective	8
Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration	8
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers	8
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data	7
Dynamics of the coefficient of variation of the age at death distribution	7
Early life patterns of criminal legal system involvement: Inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, and parental education	7
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it	7
Going "beyond the mean" in analysing immigrant health disparities	7
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds	7
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity	7
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census	7
Increases in shared custody after divorce in the United States	7
Internal migration and the de-standardization of the life course: A sequence analysis of reasons for migrating	7
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach	7
Racial classification as a multistate process	7
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden	7
‘Silver splits’ in Europe: The role of grandchildren and other correlates	7
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States	7
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability	7
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries	7
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses	6
The scale of transnational family separation: Evidence from the United Kingdom	6
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood	6
Couple migration patterns, gender power relationships and later-life depression in China	6
Does race response shift impact racial inequality?	6
Estimating mortality from census data: A record-linkage study of the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Burkina Faso	6
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education	6

A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks	6
Unrealized fertility in demography	6
Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam	6
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon	6
Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition	6