OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demographic Research is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates	44
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal	43
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature	39
International completeness of death registration	29
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis	26
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death	25
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods	23
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network	23
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel	20
The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–2014	19
First reproductive experience: A survey module	18
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?	18
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
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States	15
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India	15
Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality	14
Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background	14
Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures	13
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation	13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa	12
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database	12
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–2023	12
Settlement intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Adhering to social status back home or restarting again abroad?	11
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard	11

Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents	11
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020	10
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy	10
Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic	10
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay	10
Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom	10
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 1918	10
A dyadic approach to the study of perceived subfecundity and contraceptive use	10
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach	10
Shifting spousal age gaps in Kenya and Ghana: Does education matter?	9
The educational gradient in young singlehood: The role of gender and the gender climate	9
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	9
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants’ and natives’ gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain	9
On the momentum of pseudostable populations	9
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective	9
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions	9
Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century	9
The groupwise decomposition: Estimating group-specific contributions to differences between demographic measures	9
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions	8
Racial classification as a multistate process	8
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers	8
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea	8
Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration	8
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census	8
The ratio of births observed to births needed: An indicator to assess demographic sustainability	8
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds	8
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity	8
Dynamics of the coefficient of variation of the age at death distribution	8
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data	8
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden	8
Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary	7
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach	7
The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) dataset: Leave duration entitlements for 21 countries from 1970 to 2024	7
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses	7
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States	7
Increases in shared custody after divorce in the United States	7
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries	7
The scale of transnational family separation: Evidence from the United Kingdom	7
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it	7
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability	7
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education	7
Going "beyond the mean" in analysing immigrant health disparities	7
Couple migration patterns, gender power relationships and later-life depression in China	6
Unrealized fertility in demography	6
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon	6
Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan	6
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood	6
Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany	6
Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition	6
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland	6

Does race response shift impact racial inequality?	6
Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–2022	6
Spatial perspective on environmental migration: Empirical insights from a spatiotemporal approach in the United States, 1970–2010	6
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks	6
Mapping son preference in India, 2002–2021: Spatial patterns and trends using model-based small area estimation	5
Disentangling the Swedish fertility decline of the 2010s	5
Amish fertility in the United States: Comparative evidence from the American Community Survey and Amish population registries	5
The quality of fertility data in the web-based Generations and Gender Survey	5
Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–2020	5
Moving towards gender equality in China: The influence of migration experiences on rural migrants’ gender role attitudes	5
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions	5
Learning and reproductive health: Do early cognitive skills contribute to better sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescents in Ethiopia?	5
Age-heterogamous partnerships: Prevalence and partner differences by marital status and gender composition	5
Higher incomes are increasingly associated with higher fertility: Evidence from the Netherlands, 2008–2022	5
The dynamic role of household structure on under-5 mortality in southern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa	5
Bayesian multidimensional mortality reconstruction	5
War and mobility: Using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine	5
Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A descriptive analysis	5
Special times? How COVID-specific concerns disrupted fertility desires in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections	5
Analysing migrant fertility using machine learning techniques: An application of random survival forest to longitudinal data from France	5
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach	5
Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death	5
Immigrant labor market dynamics in Germany by family status	5
Academic expectations and university enrolment of migrant-origin students in Italy: Evidence by migrant generation and origin group	5
When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas	5