OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to commentaries by Andrew Jenkins and Peter Elias on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’	19
‘Impact’ for longitudinal social science research: reflecting on paths forward	17
Exploring the effects of socio-economic inequalities on health and disability in Northern Irish adolescents: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study	14
The many faces of education within life course studies, changing data collection methods, and a protocol for data linkage and model specification to more holistically improve health and well-being in	10
Examining change in migration strategies over the life course of international PhD students	8
The career history of Chinese entrepreneurs and their life outcomes: a life history study using sequence analysis	8
Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia	8
The trend of the quality of cause-of-death data and its association with socio-economic indicators in Serbia in the period 2005–19	7
Adolescent male friendships 28 years later: adult criminal offences and domestic/intimate partner violence	6
What future are we creating?	6
Neighbourhood socioeconomic disparities in immunohaematologic risk in a paediatric analytic cohort	6
Middle-aged adults’ career trajectories and later-life financial security: evidence from Korea	5
Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home?	5
Can life events predict first-time suicide attempts? A nationwide longitudinal study	5
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies	5
Work and fertility in Taiwan: how do women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?	5
Consistency of data collected through online life history calendars	4
The intersection of career aspirations and family planning among women in Lagos State: a qualitative analysis	4
Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland	4
The legacy of John Bynner	4
Regional differences in initial labour market conditions and dynamics in lifetime income trajectories	4
Short- and long-distance home-leaving and home-returning: exploring the role of life course transitions	3
Reply to ‘Letter to the editor: Don’t forget survey data: “healthy cohorts” are “real world” relevant if missing data are handled appropriately’ by Richard Silverwood et al	3
Reviewer Acknowledgements	3
Inequalities in children’s skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences?	3

Work and fertility in Taiwan: how do women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?	3
Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach	3
New generations of respondents: assessing the representativity of the HILDA Survey’s child sample	3
Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey	2
Development of socio-economic gaps in children’s language skills in Germany	2
Creating our legacy	2
Income inequality in later years: occupational trajectories or initial social characteristics?	2
Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development	2
Life at the intersections	2
An Australian perspective on opportunities to innovate and evolve impact in cohort studies: a reply to ‘Re-considering “impact” for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approa	2
The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood	2
The lasting imprint of childhood disadvantage: cumulative histories of exposure to childhood adversity and trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood	2
An evaluation of self-reported material well-being using latent Markov models with covariates	2
January 2025 editorial: don’t look away	2
The SLLS in uncertain times: an opportunity to develop an impactful and responsive society. A reply to ‘Studying social change in human lives: a conversation’ by Richard Settersten et al	2