OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Ageing is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	85
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	69
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	49
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	45
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	39
Individual vitality changes over 20 years among aging adults, using predefined and data-driven patterns: the Doetinchem Cohort Study	38
Concurrent associations between objective markers and subjective markers of aging with indicators of successful aging: An integrative approach	32
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	30
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	30
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	30
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	25
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	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	21
Widowhood and grandchild care: a longitudinal study of European grandmothers and grandfathers	20
Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	19
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	19
Challenges and opportunities of psychological aging research	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
MMSE in primary care practice: why good tests can mislead in the wrong context	17
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	17
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	16
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	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

Bourdieu’s capitals matter: tracking longer working lives across Europe	15
Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years	15
Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	15
Association of behaviour-related health risk factors with working life expectancy in adults aged ≥ 50 years: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Finnish Public Sector Study	15
Policies for supporting caregivers of older adults with long-term care needs in EU countries: a systematic review	14
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	14
Correction: Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	14
Measurement invariance of a general cognitive performance measure across 27 European countries and Israel	13
The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life	13
Low social capital at work is associated with increased risk of perceived age discrimination: results from a prospective cohort study	13
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	12
Multiple work demands and early retirement intention in Germany: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis	12
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	12
The hidden crisis: classifying unmet healthcare needs in European older adults during COVID-19	10
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	10
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	10
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	10
Community-based housing alternatives for older adults: towards a conceptual framework for resident involvement	9
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	9
The relationship between community spiritual comfort services and cognitive function in the older adults: a random intercept cross-lagged panel study	9
Frail parents and adult children’s life-satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data	9
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	9
Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland	8
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	8
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	8
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	8
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	7
Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	7
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	7
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	7
The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness in European older women and men: a growth curve analysis	7
Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study	7
Contribution of accumulative affective problems across the life course towards the association of childhood socioeconomic position with later-life cognitive ageing	7
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	7
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	7
Impact of age-related stereotype threat on subjective age, awareness of age-related change, and physical performance in older adults	7
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore	7
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	6
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	6
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	6
A scoping review of measurement tools and a content validity evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS)	6
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	6
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	6
Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial	6
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	6
Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally	6
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?	6
Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	6
A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes	5

Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study	5
The effect of age on the architecture of psychological and cognitive dimensions: a network perspective	5
“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future	5
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	5
Age and gender relations on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies	5
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences	5
Internet usage among the oldest-old: does functional health moderate the relationship between internet usage and autonomy?	5
The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data	5
Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam	5
Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England	5
A longitudinal study of the effects of well-being and perceived control on preparations for old age: moderation effects of contexts	4
Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity	4
Investigating the influence of work-related stress on early labour market exit: the role of health	4
“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	4
Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states	4
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden	4
Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review	4
Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis	4
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	4
Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria	4
Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health	4
Socio-economic differences in receiving care by the over-80s in Germany and England: intensity of care needs as a moderator	4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between age and degrees of avoidant decision-making style	4
Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study	3
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults	3
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age	3
Preclinical Alzheimer’s dementia: a useful concept or another dead end?	3
Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes	3
Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets	3
Correction: Promoting physical activity in geriatric patients with cognitive impairment after discharge from ward-rehabilitation: a feasibility study	3
Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands	3
Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	3
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	2
Loneliness, social isolation, and health-related quality of life in older adults	2
Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age	2
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?	2
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	2
The brief case for everyday problems: a proposal of two brief alternate forms of the Everyday Problems Test	2
Social disadvantage, context and network dynamics in later life	2
Religion and survival among European older adults	2
Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants’ value of informal care	2
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population	2
The association between widowhood duration and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: mediation role of sleeping duration and dietary diversity	2
Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	2
Healthcare utilisation, physical activity and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an interrupted time-series analysis of older adults in England	2
Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?	2
Measuring relatives’ perceptions of end-of-life communication with physicians in five countries: a psychometric analysis	2
Internet use and COVID-19 vaccination attitudes among older adults in Switzerland during the pandemic	2
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update	2
The effectiveness of interventions on clinical and patient-reported outcomes in hospital-to-home transitions of older adults: a systematic review	2
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries	2
Older people in Sweden increasingly enter long-term care with extensive care needs–a register study of first-time users based on the SNAC Stockholm Eldercare study	2
Choice models in Nordic long-term care: care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults	2
Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults	2
The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers	2
Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers	2