OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of SSM-Population Health is 27. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?	151
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study	89
Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion	71
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam	66
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children	60
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data	59
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study	59
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	47
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019	46
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center	44
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study	42
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea	39
Discrimination, trust, and well-being: dual risk-and-resilience pathways among African immigrants in 29 European countries	38
The contribution of unpaid labour to poor mental health in the Swedish working population	38
The influence of negative wealth shock on depressive symptoms and major depressive episode among older adults	36
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies	35
Adult children's unemployment and parental mental health in India: Social and economic heterogeneity	34
Heterogeneous effects of retirement on the biomedical risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases: New evidence based on the physical examination database in Shanghai, China	33
Social norms, diffusion, and women's risk of intimate partner violence in Nepal: Impact assessment of a social and behavior Change communication intervention (Change Starts at home)	31
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	31
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	31
Trust in the healthcare system and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden	30
Single and combined effects of marital status, education attainment, and employment status on suicide among working-age population: A case-control study in South Korea	30
Impact of indoor air pollution from cooking fuel usage and practices on self-reported health among older adults in India: Evidence from LASI	30
Location dynamics of general practitioners in France	29

Pathways explaining racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities in brain white matter integrity outcomes in the UK Biobank study	28
The complex representation and contradicting results linking sexual orientation to allostatic load	27
Does change in area-level deprivation, change health outcomes? A latent class growth analysis of population data	27
Are childhood factors predictive of adult health literacy? A longitudinal birth cohort analysis	27
Tracking of depressed mood from adolescence into adulthood and the role of peer and parental support: A partial test of the Adolescent Pathway Model	27