OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Ageing is 3. 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
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	77
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	52
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	48
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	45
How are location and type of caring associated with the carer’s mental health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from SHARE	43
Cost-effectiveness analysis of the digital fall preventive intervention Safe Step among community-dwelling older people aged 70 and older	41
Does social capital enhance political participation in older adults? Multi-level evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey	38
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	37
“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future	36
A conceptual framework addressing the complex labour market dynamics of the work-to-retirement process	31
Using the intergenerational solidarity framework to understand the grandparent–grandchild relationship: a scoping review	30
Online assessment of cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan using the eCOGTEL: a reliable alternative to laboratory testing	27
Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	27
Cognitive functions and physical activity in aging when energy is lacking	27
Responding to Covid-19: an analysis of position statements of gerontological societies worldwide	26
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries	23
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	23
Polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, anticholinergic burden and cognitive outcomes: a snapshot from a community-dwelling sample of older men and women in northern Italy	22
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	22
Health and labor force participation among older workers in Switzerland: a growth curve analysis	21
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	21
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	20
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	20
The role of semantic assessment in the differential diagnosis between late-life depression and Alzheimer’s disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analysis	19
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	19

Aging in place or aging out of place? Family caregivers’ perspectives on care for older Pakistani migrants in Norway	17
Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans	16
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	16
Physically distant but socially close? Changes in non-physical intergenerational contacts at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people in France, Italy and Spain	16
Self-rated resilience and mobility limitations as predictors of change in active aging during COVID-19 restrictions in Finland: a longitudinal study	15
Working beyond SPA and the trajectories of cognitive and mental health of UK pensioners: Do gender, choice, and occupational status matter?	15
Buddy or burden? Patterns, perceptions, and experiences of pet ownership among older adults in Switzerland	14
Age differences in facial trustworthiness perception are diminished by affective processing	13
Older adults’ mentioned practices for coping with loneliness	13
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	13
Correction to: Revisiting the Nordic long-term care model for older people—still equal?	13
Correction to: The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review	12
Depression and loneliness of older adults in Europe and Israel after the first wave of covid-19	12
Perceived loneliness and the role of cultural and intergenerational belonging: the case of Portuguese first-generation immigrants in Luxembourg	11
Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	11
Living longer, working longer: analysing time trends in working life expectancy in Germany from a health perspective between 2002 and 2018	11
The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data	11
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Validation of the test for finding word retrieval deficits (WoFi) in detecting Alzheimer's disease in a naturalistic clinical setting	10
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	10
Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe	10
The causal relationship between sleep disturbances and the risk of frailty: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	10
Do publicly funded community physical activity programs for middle-aged and older adults in Ireland work?	10
Health system reforms and the needs of the ageing population—an analysis of recent policy paths and reform trends in Finland and Sweden	10
Increasing retirement ages in Denmark: Do changes in gender, education, employment status and health matter?	10
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	10
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	10
A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	10
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	9
Digital transformation of everyday lives of older Swiss adults: use of and attitudes toward current and future digital services	9
Retirement’s impact on health: what role does social network play?	9
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	9
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	9
Perceived neighbourhood environment and falls among community-dwelling adults: cross-sectional and prospective findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)	9
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences	8
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	8
Factor structure of the anxiety sensitivity index-3 in a sample of older adults	8
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	8
Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age	8
Young for old—old for young? Ethical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity and responsibility in public discourses on COVID-19	8
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	8
Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam	8
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	7
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	7
Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany	7
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	7
Multimorbidity patterns and disability and healthcare use in Europe: do the associations change with the regional socioeconomic status?	7
Social network type contributes to purpose in life among older people, mediated by social support	7
Internet use and cognitive frailty in older adults: a large-scale multidimensional approach	6

Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	6
Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment	6
Perceived deterioration in health status among older adults in Europe and Israel following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	6
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	6
Cognitive and non-cognitive variables influencing age-related effect of mind wandering across the adult life span	6
Can discourse processing performance serve as an early marker of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment? A systematic review of text comprehension	6
Loneliness among very old people with and without dementia: prevalence and associated factors in a representative sample	6
Grandparenting, health, and well-being: a systematic literature review	5
The brief case for everyday problems: a proposal of two brief alternate forms of the Everyday Problems Test	5
Cardiovascular risk profiles and 20-year mortality in older people: gender differences in the Pro.V.A. study	5
Does personality shape the personal social networks of older Europeans?	5
A research framework for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030)	5
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	5
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	5
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	5
Social disadvantage, context and network dynamics in later life	5
Aging during COVID-19 in Germany: a longitudinal analysis of psychosocial adaptation	5
Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers	5
Active ageing policy in challenging production environments: a case study involving social partners in Spain	4
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	4
The influence of sociodemographic factors and close relatives at hospital discharge and post hospital care of older people with complex care needs: nurses’ perceptions on health inequity in three Nord	4
Aspects of formal volunteering that contribute to favourable psychological outcomes in older adults	4
The protective effect of educational level varies as a function of the difficulty of the memory task in ageing	4
The link between vision impairment and depressive symptomatology in late life: does having a partner matter?	4
A systematic review of systematic reviews of needs of family caregivers of older adults with dementia	4
New thinking about health expectancy: introduction to the special section	4
Age-period-cohort analysis of depression trends: are depressive symptoms increasing across generations in Germany?	4
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	4
Is ageing becoming more active? Exploring cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in Sweden	3
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	3
The association between physical multimorbidity and fall-related injury among adults aged ≥ 50 years from low- and middle-income countries	3
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	3
Religion and survival among European older adults	3
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	3
Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden	3
The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers	3
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	3
Relationships among inner strength, health and function, well-being, and negative life events in old people: a longitudinal study	3
Fear of falling and all-cause mortality among young-old community-dwelling adults: a 6-year prospective study	3
Opposing patterns in self-reported and measured physical activity levels in middle-aged adults	3
Changes in retirement plans in the English older population during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of health factors and financial insecurity	3
The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review	3
Measuring relatives’ perceptions of end-of-life communication with physicians in five countries: a psychometric analysis	3
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	3
Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes	3
Inheritances and work for pay — will the expected wave of bequests undermine active ageing policies?	3
The age and well-being “paradox”: a longitudinal and multidimensional reconsideration	3