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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	87
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	54
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	50
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	44
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	44
Online assessment of cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan using the eCOGTEL: a reliable alternative to laboratory testing	41
Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans	39
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	35
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	29
Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden	28
The link between vision impairment and depressive symptomatology in late life: does having a partner matter?	26
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	24
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	23
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	22
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	22
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	22
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	21
The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts	21
Correction to: Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	21
The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis	21
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	18
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	17
The impact of providing intensive care and practical help in mid-life on employment transitions in Europe	17
Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	17

Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	16
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	15
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	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	13
Informal care-giving and the intention to give up employment: the role of perceived supervisor behaviour in a cohort of German employees	13
Time trend of overweight and obesity prevalence among older people in Brazilian State Capitals and the Federal District from 2006 to 2019	13
Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	13
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	12
Self-rated resilience and mobility limitations as predictors of change in active aging during COVID-19 restrictions in Finland: a longitudinal study	12
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	12
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	12
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	12
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	12
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	12
Aging during COVID-19 in Germany: a longitudinal analysis of psychosocial adaptation	11
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	11
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	11
Relationships among inner strength, health and function, well-being, and negative life events in old people: a longitudinal study	11
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	11
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	11
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	10
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	10
Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	10
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	10
Economic vulnerability and unmet healthcare needs among the population aged 50 + years during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	10
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	10
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore	9
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	9
Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study	9
Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial	9
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing	9
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	9
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	8
Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study	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
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
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
Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	8
Age differences in facial trustworthiness perception are diminished by affective processing	7
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	7
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	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
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	7
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
Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity	6

A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	6
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	6
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	6
Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health	6
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	6
Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	6
Internet use and cognitive frailty in older adults: a large-scale multidimensional approach	6
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	6
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	6
“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
Aging-related fears and their associations with ideal life expectancy	5
Investigating the influence of work-related stress on early labour market exit: the role of health	5
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	5
Is ageing becoming more active? Exploring cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in Sweden	5
Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes	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
Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review	5
Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study	5
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden	5
Access to healthcare for people aged 50+ in Europe during the COVID-19 outbreak	4
Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age	4
What matters to people aged 80 and over regarding ambulatory care? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	4
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	4
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	4
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age	4
Older adults’ mentioned practices for coping with loneliness	4
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	4
Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands	4
Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets	4
Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	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
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults	4
Fear of falling and all-cause mortality among young-old community-dwelling adults: a 6-year prospective study	3
Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults	3
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	3
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	3
Grandparenting, health, and well-being: a systematic literature review	3
Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers	3
Active ageing policy in challenging production environments: a case study involving social partners in Spain	3
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	3
Perceived deterioration in health status among older adults in Europe and Israel following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	3
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	3
Measuring relatives’ perceptions of end-of-life communication with physicians in five countries: a psychometric analysis	3
The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers	3
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	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
Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe	3
Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age	3
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	3