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Research reports

• Differences in citation rates by country of origin for papers published in top-ranked medical journals: do they reflect inequalities in access to publication? (24 November, 2009)

  Olof Akre, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Andreas Pettersson, Neil Pearce, Franco Merletti, Lorenzo Richiardi
• Contribution of different causes of death to socioeconomic mortality inequality in Korean children aged 1–9: findings from a national mortality follow-up study (22 November, 2009)

  K Jung-Choi, Y H Khang
• Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health: evidence from Britain, Germany, Denmark and the USA (8 December, 2009)

  Amanda Sacker, Diana Worts, Peggy McDonough
• Investigating the spatial variability in incidence of coronary heart disease in the Gazel Cohort: the impact of area socioeconomic position and mediating role of risk factors (11 December, 2009)

  Romain Silhol, Marie Zins, Pierre Chauvin, Basile Chaix
• Social disparities in periodontitis among US adults: the effect of allostatic load (8 December, 2009)

  L N Borrell, N D Crawford
• Public good, personal privacy: a citizens' deliberation about using medical information for pharmacoepidemiological research (29 November, 2009)

  Lianne Parkin, Charlotte Paul
• The effect of influenza vaccination on the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations in the immediate postvaccination period (8 December, 2009)

  S C H Ting, S W Crooks, G South
• Minutes, MET minutes, and METs: unpacking socio-economic gradients in physical activity in adolescents (11 December, 2009)

  C A Maher, T S Olds
• Social inequalities in health among adolescents in a large southern European city (8 December, 2009) Free

  T Duarte-Salles, M I Pasarín, C Borrell, M Rodríguez-Sanz, L Rajmil, M Ferrer, F Pellisé, F Balagué