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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	114
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	66
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	59
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	51
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	45
Online assessment of cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan using the eCOGTEL: a reliable alternative to laboratory testing	38
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	38
Individual vitality changes over 20 years among aging adults, using predefined and data-driven patterns: the Doetinchem Cohort Study	31
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	29
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	28
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	27
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	27
Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden	25
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	25
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	24
The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts	23
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	23
The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis	22
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	22
The impact of providing intensive care and practical help in mid-life on employment transitions in Europe	20
Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	19
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	19
Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	17
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	16
Correction to: Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	16

Informal care-giving and the intention to give up employment: the role of perceived supervisor behaviour in a cohort of German employees	15
Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	15
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	15
Correction: Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	15
The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life	14
Measurement invariance of a general cognitive performance measure across 27 European countries and Israel	14
Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years	14
The hidden crisis: classifying unmet healthcare needs in European older adults during COVID-19	14
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	14
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	13
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	13
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	13
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	13
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	12
Frail parents and adult children’s life-satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data	12
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	12
Self-esteem is associated with health status and PROMs in advanced age independent of multidimensional frailty: secondary analysis from a RCT with 6-month follow-up	12
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	12
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	11
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	11
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	11
Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland	11
The relationship between community spiritual comfort services and cognitive function in the older adults: a random intercept cross-lagged panel study	11
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	10
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	10
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	10
Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study	9
Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	9
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing	9
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	9
Impact of age-related stereotype threat on subjective age, awareness of age-related change, and physical performance in older adults	9
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore	9
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	9
Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial	8
Correction: 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‑analysi	8
Do we all perceive experiences of age discrimination in the same way? Cross-cultural differences in perceived age discrimination and its association with life satisfaction	8
Change over time in characteristics and survival of residents newly admitted to nursing homes: an analysis of health insurance claims data from 2011 to 2020 in Germany	8
Comparing the cross-national impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care received by community-dwelling older adults in 2020 and 2021: restoring formal home care versus polarizing informal care?	8
Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	8
Employee perception of managers’ attitudes towards older workers is associated with risk of loss of paid work before state pension age: prospective cohort study with register follow-up	8
Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study	7
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	7
“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future	7
The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data	7
A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	7
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	7
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	7
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	6
Internet use and cognitive frailty in older adults: a large-scale multidimensional approach	6

Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health	6
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden	6
Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	6
Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam	6
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences	6
Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes	6
Investigating the influence of work-related stress on early labour market exit: the role of health	6
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	6
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	6
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	6
Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity	6
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	6
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	6
Aging-related fears and their associations with ideal life expectancy	5
Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review	5
Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes	5
Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age	5
Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study	5
The role of impaired vision and declined cognition in falls and fall-related risk factors among older people receiving home care in Finland—a cross-sectional register study	5
Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands	5
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	5
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age	5
“If this is what it means to be old…”: a mixed methods study on the effects of age simulation on views on aging and perceptions of age-related impairments	5
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between age and degrees of avoidant decision-making style	5
Socio-economic differences in receiving care by the over-80s in Germany and England: intensity of care needs as a moderator	5
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	5
Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	5
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	4
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	4
Older adults’ mentioned practices for coping with loneliness	4
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries	4
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	4
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults	4
Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe	4
The association between widowhood duration and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: mediation role of sleeping duration and dietary diversity	4
Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets	4
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	3
Care provision and social participation among older adults in Europe: longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing	3
Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults	3
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)	3
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	3
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	3
Perceived deterioration in health status among older adults in Europe and Israel following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age	3
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	3
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	3
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	3