Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?88
From JRSM Open81
Death Notices65
International medical graduates50
How to advocate for vulnerable groups50
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Learning the craft – own experience40
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care39
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias36
From JRSM Open33
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Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises28
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’24
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?24
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award22
Death Notices20
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened18
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair18
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?17
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective17
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John Keats: the mystery years16
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure15
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT14
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic14
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic13
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research13
Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups13
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision12
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative12
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS11
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?11
Death Notices11
Pharmaceutical industry payments to healthcare professional organisations in the United Kingdom: a seven-year cross-sectional analysis of the Disclosure UK database from 2015 to 202111
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Confronting three great men of cardiology This is an extract from Dr Samways Writes to the Editor, The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician (1857–1931) by Tom Treasure11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death11
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months11
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis10
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks10
The development of network meta-analysis10
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype10
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?10
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages9
Death Notices9
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 3: the double blind and the rise of ‘clinical pharmacology’9
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval9
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance9
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway8
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education8
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding8
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator8
Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study8
Healthcare and feminism7
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials7
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading7
From JRSM Open6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis6
From JRSM Open6
Death Notices6
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Death Notices6
Death Notices6
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’6
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
From JRSM Open5
Death Notices5
Death Notices5
If in doubt, think patient5
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 15
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis5
From JRSM Open5
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The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing5
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records5
Racial, ethnic and regional differences in the effect of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists on cardiovascular and renal outcomes: a systematic rev5
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 15
Death Notices4
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people4
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Death Notices4
From JRSM Open4
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope4
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons4
Long term sequelae of COVID-19: new data4
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia4
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Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’3
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review3
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?3
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
Death Notices3
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Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
Death Notices3
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots3
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform3
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom3
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments3
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Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
From JRSM Open3
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
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What’s medicine for?2
Trusting in lived experience2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm2
General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health2
Social care need in multimorbidity2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
From JRSM Open2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?2
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study2
From JRSM Open2
From JRSM Open2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?2
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‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism2
Lessons from the pandemic: the award of honours2
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
Death Notices2
Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals2
Death Notices2
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis1
Retraction Notice: “Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study”1
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Learning the craft – general practice stories1
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice1
The constitution, functions and skill sets of teams1
From JRSM Open1
From JRSM Open1
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries1
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 21
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 2: the advent and expansion of randomised controlled trials1
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study1
60th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: ethical challenges in the 10th amendment1
Death Notices1
How can the NHS be funded?1
Death Notices1
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How doctors think about their role in transgender care: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners and endocrinologists1
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health1
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health1
‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science1
Death Notices1
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned1
From JRSM Open1
Vaccination in pregnancy: the vaccine bit is easy, the behaviour is hard1
Underpowered trials at trial start and informed consent: action is needed beyond the COVID-19 pandemic1
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 20201
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 21
Death Notices1
Death Notices1
The craft of medicine1
ReSPECT at the bedside – between design and reality1
Bad decision making on Earth and in space1
Using national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of a parsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19–a data-driven retrospective cohort study1
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness1
From JRSM Open1
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 20211
How I came to write papers for clinicians in the late 1980s about improving the quality of reviews1
From JRSM Open1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?1
From JRSM Open1
Death Notices1
Declaration of Helsinki: a new revision at sixty years1
English parallels to socialism: 1984–20241
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon1
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates1
When was randomisation first used in educational research? A brief historical methodological perspective1
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?1
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry1
Global burden of malaria and neglected tropical diseases in children and adolescents, 1990–2019: a population-based, cross-sectional study1
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland1
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare1
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study1
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model1
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question1
From JRSM Open1
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health1
Are we selecting the right medical students?1
Death Notices1
Robotic techniques benefit anaesthesia too1
Death Notices1
The need for patient rights in AI-driven healthcare – risk-based regulation is not enough1
Doctors working in teams1
A decade of deprioritisation? Ethnicity and health in the 10-year NHS plan1
Arts, literature, and witchcraft: medicine’s many personalities1
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update1
Chairing a committee for what purpose? Chairing online and conferences?1
99.53% and the history of probability1
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study1
COVID-19 and herd immunity1
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study1
Death Notices0
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics Part 2: the origin, use and limitations of his method0
Financial difficulty in the medical profession0
Better health for vulnerable groups, better health for all0
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency0
COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in people with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 4 million people0
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns0
The difference in all-cause mortality between COVID-19 patients treated with standard of care plus placebo and those treated with standard of care alone: a network meta-analysis of randomised controll0
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From JRSM Open0
Once a doctor, always a doctor0
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Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues0
Death Notices0
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?0
From JRSM Open0
From JRSM Open0
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?0
From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors0
Failing to learn? The NHS is losing its capacity for system-wide safety investigation0
Who makes a good leader?0
What makes a good doctor – and who gets to decide?0
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We still know little about long COVID0
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity0
Regulating reliably: building high-reliability regulators in healthcare0
The dilemmas of investing in health and humanity0
Why better interpretation of science leads to better care0
Do patients matter in the age of AI?0
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Death Notices0
Death Notices0
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