OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal for Equity in Health is 30. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Research and implementation interactions in a social accountability study: utilizing guidance for conducting process evaluations of complex interventions	379
Equity in the recovery of elective and oncological surgery volumes after the COVID-19 lockdown: a multicentre cohort study in Italy	131
Reaching the unheard: overcoming challenges in health research with hard-to-reach populations	120
Equity in family planning policies and programs in Uganda: conceptualization, dimensions and implementation constraints	100
Editorial Expression of Concern: Addressing cancer care inequities in sub‑Saharan Africa: current challenges and proposed solutions	97
Demographic disparities in access to COVID-19 clinical trial sites across the United States: a geospatial analysis	93
Addressing unmet mental health needs of older adults in Turbo, Colombia: a multi-component psychosocial intervention feasibility study	75
Revisiting revitalization: exploring how structural determinants moderate pathways between neighborhood change and health	72
Kerala’s progress towards universal health coverage: the road travelled and beyond	72
Feminism, gender medicine and beyond: a feminist analysis of "gender medicine"	72
Exploring behavioral intervention components for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV with non-suppressed HIV viral load in the United States: a qualitative study	60
The relationship between neighbourhood income and youth mental health service use differs by immigration experience: analysis of population-based data in British Columbia, Canada	53
Equity and determinants in universal health coverage indicators in Iraq, 2000–2030: a national and subnational study	52
Associations between physical and mental health and the utilization of ambulatory and emergency healthcare among asylum-seekers: results from a cross-sectional survey in Berlin, Germany	47
Examining the experiences of vulnerably housed patients visiting Kingston, Ontario’s emergency departments: a qualitative analysis	45
Catastrophic health expenditure and its association with socioeconomic status in China: evidence from the 2011-2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study	45
Intrinsic capacity trajectories and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the contributions of wealth, education, gender, and ethnicity	45
Using the WHO building blocks to examine cross-border public health surveillance in MENA	44
Rabies death in an adolescent tribal girl diagnosed postmortem, in Kerala - the precious life, preventable loss and equity concerns	42
Comparing socio-economic inequalities in self-reported and undiagnosed hypertension among adults 45 years and over in India: what explains these inequalities?	39
Distributive justice and equity in resource allocation: a temporal analysis of hospitalization costs in indigenous populations in Brazil	39
Health needs of migrant female head porters in Ghana: evidence from the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas	38
Telemedicine in community shelters: possibilities to improve chronic care among people experiencing homelessness in Hungary	38
Multilevel medical insurance mitigate health cost inequality due to air pollution: Evidence from China	38
Coupling coordination degree of healthcare resource supply, demand and elderly population change in China	36

Financial protection effects of private health insurance: experimental evidence from Chinese households with resident basic medical insurance	35
Unsalaried health workers in Sierra Leone: a scoping review of the literature to establish their impact on healthcare delivery	35
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ approach of Curamericas: 2. Study site, design, and methods	34
Multi-level change strategies for health: learning from people-centered advocacy in Uganda	33
The impact of health disparities on peripheral vascular access outcomes in hospitalized patients: an observational study	32
Predictors of death at home among cancer patients in Israel: a population-based study	30
Impact of pension income on healthcare utilization of older adults in rural China	30
Occupation-related factors affecting the health of migrants working during the COVID-19 pandemic – a qualitative study in Norway	30