OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Ageing is 9. 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
Cognitive functions and physical activity in aging when energy is lacking	27
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
Responding to Covid-19: an analysis of position statements of gerontological societies worldwide	26
Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement	23
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
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review	22
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
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
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
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
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
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
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