OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Preventive Medicine is 40. 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
Is there a difference in preventive health checks and healthy lifestyle practices based on preconception status? Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health	234
‘Snacktivity™’ to increase physical activity: Time to try something different?	158
Precarious employment and mental health in the United States: Results from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), 2008–2021	151
Editorial Board	145
The impact of health literacy on psychosocial and behavioural outcomes among people at low risk of cardiovascular disease	125
Trends in sexual orientation disparities in cigarette smoking: Intersections between race/ethnicity and sex	116
The relationship between cannabis use and legalization frameworks: A cross-sectional analysis using a nationally representative survey	112
Editorial Board	102
The longitudinal association between asthma severity and physical fitness among new York City public school youth	101
Editorial Board	97
Editorial Note Acknowledging our Reviewers	93
What rate of Iranian women perform Pap smear test? Results from a meta-analysis	91
Digital screen time and suicidality during high school: How important is cyberbullying? A mediation analysis using the youth risk behavioral surveillance survey, 2011–2019	89
Using an experimental tobacco marketplace to pilot test the substitutability of JUUL e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine and tobacco products for conventional cigarettes among vulnerable popul	88
Societal values and mask usage for COVID-19 control in the US	87
A new metabolic syndrome prediction model for self-evaluation as a primary screening tool in an apparently MetS-free population	82
Association of social vulnerability and influenza vaccination rates for Annual Medicare Enrollees at the county-level in the United States	80
Relationship between communicative and critical health literacy, health information sources, and participation in health checkups among middle-aged Japanese community residents	80
Genetic testing for suicide risk assessment: Theoretical premises, research challenges and ethical concerns	80
Household food insecurity and in-utero and early life smoke exposure: Data from NHANES 2003–2016	79
Pulmonary function, genetic predisposition, and the risk of cirrhosis: A prospective cohort study	72
Smoking and pulmonary health in women: A narrative review and behavioral health perspective	63
Loneliness and its cross-sectional associations with health, health behaviours, and perceptions in Finnish patients with overweight or obesity taking part in the Healthy Weight Coaching	62
Life course weight transitions from birth to childhood to midlife and risk of cardiovascular diseases and its subtypes	61
Benefits and harms of structured outdoor physical activity for people with somatic or mental diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis	58

Curative effect of medicine cake sticking ultrasound drug penetration combined with body training on hemiplegia after stroke: An in vitro ultrasound targeted drug controlled release technology	55
Prolongation of disease-free life: When is the benefit sufficient to warrant the effort of taking a preventive medicine?	54
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research priorities to support the development of incentive-based treatments for substance use disorders	54
It takes a village: Preventive Medicine and Preventive Medicine Reports in the last decade	52
Metabolically healthy obesity increases the prevalence of stroke in adults aged 40 years or older: Result from the China National Stroke Screening survey	45
Social distancing attitudes, national context, and health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a global survey	45
Promoting health equity through poverty alleviation policy: Factors associated with receipt of the 2021 U.S. Child Tax Credit in a nationwide sample	45
Editorial Board	44
Violence perpetration prevalence among Colorado (United States) high school students across gender, racial/ethnic, and sexual identities	43
Editorial Board	43
Health prevention intervention for chronic tissue fibrosis: Based on the specific expression of CCL19/21 + mast cell	43
Preventive Medicine: Topical diversity and rigour 50 years on	42
The noblest among noble public health goals: Preventing suicide	42
Patterns of household gun ownership and firearm suicide among black men compared to white men	41
Editorial Board	40
Reprint of “Using multiple imputation by super learning to assign intent to nonfatal firearm injuries”	40
Editorial Board	40