OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of SSM-Population Health is 34. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations of social capital and health at a city with high aging rate and low population density	225
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study	194
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)	174
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?	86
Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market	79
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children	76
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea	70
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study	61
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019	57
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data	56
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study	55
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach	52
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies	51
Impact of indoor air pollution from cooking fuel usage and practices on self-reported health among older adults in India: Evidence from LASI	51
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia	51
Tuition-free secondary education and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	47
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)	47
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam	47
The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities	45
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study	45
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?	43
Biosocial medicine: Biology, biography, and the tailored care of the patient	42
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	42
Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys	41
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center	41

Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion	41
Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	41
Tracking of depressed mood from adolescence into adulthood and the role of peer and parental support: A partial test of the Adolescent Pathway Model	40
Differences in mental health inequalities based on university attendance: Intersectional multilevel analyses of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy	40
Life course socioeconomic position and general and oral health in later life: Assessing the role of social causation and health selection pathways	37
Re-examining the social gradient in health: A study of Dutch men, 1850–1984	37
In the wake of a crisis: Caught between housing and healthcare	36
Correlates of suicidal ideation related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional nationally representative Canadian data	36
Trajectories of psychological distress over multiple COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia	34