OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Ageing is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	120
Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	73
Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands	66
Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood	57
Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations	44
A link between age, affect, and predictions?	42
Individual vitality changes over 20 years among aging adults, using predefined and data-driven patterns: the Doetinchem Cohort Study	33
Social, health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a European perspective	32
Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden	30
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe	29
Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China	29
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	29
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia	28
The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts	26
Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation	26
The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis	25
Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?	25
The impact of providing intensive care and practical help in mid-life on employment transitions in Europe	25
Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages	22
Subjective age and the association with intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and health among older adults in Norway	19
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis	18
Correction to: Changes in socioeconomic differentials in old age life expectancy in four Nordic countries: the impact of educational expansion and education-specific mortality	18
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements	17
A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions	17
Length of the period with late life dependency: Does the age of onset make a difference?	16

MMSE in primary care practice: why good tests can mislead in the wrong context	16
Correction: Social relations and exclusion among people facing death	16
Challenges and opportunities of psychological aging research	16
The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life	15
Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany	15
Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years	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
How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis	14
Measurement invariance of a general cognitive performance measure across 27 European countries and Israel	14
Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review	14
The hidden crisis: classifying unmet healthcare needs in European older adults during COVID-19	14
The relationship between community spiritual comfort services and cognitive function in the older adults: a random intercept cross-lagged panel study	13
Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease	13
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland	13
Effects of age simulation suits on psychological and physical outcomes: a systematic review	13
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	13
Frail parents and adult children’s life-satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data	12
The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing	12
Community-based housing alternatives for older adults: towards a conceptual framework for resident involvement	12
Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain	11
A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care	11
Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe	10
Correction: Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE	10
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review	10
Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland	10
Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study	9
Impact of age-related stereotype threat on subjective age, awareness of age-related change, and physical performance in older adults	9
Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age?	9
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
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	8
Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging	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
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing	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
Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers	8