OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Health Economics and Management is 1. 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
The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana	38
The weekend effect in stroke mortality: evidence from Austrian acute care hospitals	28
The sensitivity of hospital coding to prices: evidence from Indonesia	20
Minimum wages and health: evidence from European countries	15
Intensification or diversification: responses by anti health-pass entrepreneurs to French government announcements	10
Temporary and persistent overweight and long-term labor market outcomes	8
The pharmaceutical distributors’ efficiency in Italy: an assessment of the impact of the 2010 reimbursable drug pricing reform	8
Economic instability, income, and unemployment effects on mortality: using SUR panel data in Iran	7
Impacts of insurance expansion on health cost, health access, and health behaviors: evidence from the medicaid expansion in the US	5
Non-profit hospital mergers: the effect on healthcare costs and utilization	5
The impact of state capacity on the cross-country variations in COVID-19 vaccination rates	4
Analyzing the effect of health reforms on the efficiency of Ecuadorian public hospitals	4
Children, vaccines, and financial incentives	4
Determinants of life expectancy at birth: a longitudinal study on OECD countries	3
Deprivation as a fundamental cause of morbidity and reduced life expectancy: an observational study using German statutory health insurance data	3
Education and reproductive health: evidence from schooling expansion in Turkey	3
Does a sprawling neighborhood affect obesity? Evidence from Indonesia	3
Improving diagnosis-based cost groups in the Dutch risk equalization model: the effects of a new clustering method and allowing for multimorbidity	3
Does an upward intergenerational educational spillover effect exist? The effect of children’s education on Chinese parents’ health	3
Willingness to give amid pandemics: a contingent valuation of anticipated nongovernmental immunization programs	3
Providers preferences towards greater patient health benefit is associated with higher quality of care	3
National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19	3
Internet use, dietary habits and adolescent obesity: evidence from China	2
Competition and physician-induced demand in a healthcare market with regulated price: evidence from Ghana	2
The effect of health facility births on newborn mortality in Malawi	2

Does the market reward quality? Evidence from India	2
Contribution of high-technology procedures to public healthcare expenditures: the case of ischemic heart disease in Portugal, 2002–2015	2
The predicted impact of the proposed alcohol production deregulation policy on consumption in Thailand	2
The short-term effects of fixed copayment policy on elderly health spending and service utilization: evidence from South Korea’s age-based policy using exact date of birth	2
Predicting diagnostic coding in hospitals: individual level effects of price incentives	2
Income-related inequality in obesity and its determinants in Spain: What happens beyond the obesity threshold?	2
Medical insurance and physician-induced demand in China: the case of hemorrhoid treatments	2
Analyzing the impact of fiscal conditions on private health expenditures in OECD countries: a quantile ARDL investigation	1
Measuring household vulnerability to medical expenditure shock: method and its empirical application	1
The effectiveness of vaccination, testing, and lockdown strategies against COVID-19	1
Racial disparities in health care utilization, the affordable care act and racial concordance preference	1
Pricing behavior in long term care markets: evidence from provider-level data for home help services	1
Analyzing the 20-year declining trend of hospital length-of-stay in European countries with different healthcare systems and reimbursement models	1
The incidence of the healthcare costs of chronic conditions	1
Provider responses to discontinuous tariffs: evidence from Dutch rehabilitation care	1
Hospital cost efficiency: an examination of US acute care inpatient hospitals	1
An economic analysis of a wearable patient sensor for preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries among the acutely ill patients	1
Total expenditure elasticity of spending on self-treatment and professional healthcare: a case of Russia	1
Can health financing programmes reduce food insecurity in a developing country?	1
Simple economics of vaccination: public policies and incentives	1
Informal and formal long-term care utilization and unmet needs in Europe: examining socioeconomic disparities and the role of social policies for older adults	1
Women’s empowerment, modern energy, and demand for maternal health services in Benin	1
Does supplemental private health insurance incentivize household risky financial asset investment? Evidence from the China Household Financial Survey	1
Matching patients with therapists in culturally diverse rehabilitation services during civil unrest	1
The heterogeneous effects of the great recession on informal care to the elderly	1
State minimum wages and health insurance coverage in the United States: 2008–2018	1