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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?110
From JRSM Open92
Death Notices84
How to advocate for vulnerable groups75
International medical graduates57
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From JRSM Open38
A multivariate analysis to identify the relationship between sociodemographic differences and examination performance in UK postgraduate medical examinations34
Learning the craft – own experience26
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care20
From JRSM Open20
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Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises19
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?17
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair17
The value of a good doctor16
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened16
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’15
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias15
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award14
Mainland’s Elementary Medical Statistics (1952): a pivotal text in statistical pedagogy13
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective13
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure12
Re: Interpretation of neuropsychiatric outcomes in trials of hypoglycaemic agents12
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?12
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT12
John Keats: the mystery years12
Death Notices11
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death11
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision11
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 1: presumption and confusion on the road to randomisation11
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Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative11
Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups11
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 Treasure10
Thinking about the thinking doctor9
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS9
From JRSM Open9
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research9
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis9
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?9
Death Notices8
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 20218
The development of network meta-analysis8
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance8
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’8
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval8
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype8
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education7
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding7
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 study7
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages6
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies6
Forgetting is the clinical skill that separates human doctors from AI6
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Geopolitical tension as an emerging structural determinant of population mental health6
Death Notices5
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis5
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 15
A novel on the making of the Lancet and of Thomas Wakley, ‘the medical Florence Nightingale’5
Death Notices5
Death Notices5
Healthcare and feminism5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
From JRSM Open5
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading5
From JRSM Open5
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’5
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis5
International medical graduates: a crisis of political choice5
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 14
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records4
From JRSM Open4
Death Notices4
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 rev4
Death Notices4
The unsolved complexities inherent in informed patient choice4
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Death Notices4
Death Notices3
Death Notices3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people3
From JRSM Open3
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Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
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Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons3
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Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
Death Notices3
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Long term sequelae of COVID-19: new data3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia3
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Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?2
From JRSM Open2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant2
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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
How does mortality compare between different countries/regions of birth for the population of England and Wales, 2007 to 2021? A descriptive, observational study2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism2
From JRSM Open2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom2
From JRSM Open2
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Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
Death Notices2
Medical education at the crossroads. Part II: postgraduate training and the future of clinical expertise2
Social care need in multimorbidity2
General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health2
Death Notices2
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots2
Beyond expansion: workforce absence, administration and the persistence of NHS elective backlogs2
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments2
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Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review2
Non-training grades in the NHS workforce: the lost tribe?2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited2
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question1
From JRSM Open1
Are we selecting the right medical students?1
From JRSM Open1
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis1
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 2: the advent and expansion of randomised controlled trials1
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
Learning the craft – general practice stories1
Death Notices1
Robotic techniques benefit anaesthesia too1
What’s medicine for?1
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 20201
Doctors working in teams1
Vaccination in pregnancy: the vaccine bit is easy, the behaviour is hard1
From JRSM Open1
Bad decision making on Earth and in space1
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 3: Mainland, Hill and the future of RCTs1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 21
When was randomisation first used in educational research? A brief historical methodological perspective1
The constitution, functions and skill sets of teams1
From JRSM Open1
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland1
Beyond clinical toxicology: protecting our poisoned patients1
From JRSM Open1
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries1
A decade of deprioritisation? Ethnicity and health in the 10-year NHS plan1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare1
Death Notices1
From JRSM Open1
Death Notices1
‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’1
From JRSM Open1
Death Notices1
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry1
ReSPECT at the bedside – between design and reality1
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study1
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm1
The concentration-dependent protective effects by new generation hypoglycemic agents on delirium, depression, dementia and coma: evidence from a network meta-analysis1
How I came to write papers for clinicians in the late 1980s about improving the quality of reviews1
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Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon1
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study1
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update1
Medical education at the crossroads. Part I: undergraduate education and the erosion of professional identity1
When red flags become rules: managing diagnostic uncertainty in primary care1
Death Notices1
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 2: Hill’s ‘pragmatic’ view of randomisation and its origins1
Chairing a committee for what purpose? Chairing online and conferences?1
How doctors think about their role in transgender care: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners and endocrinologists1
How can the NHS be funded?1
The craft of medicine1
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree1
From JRSM Open1
Arts, literature, and witchcraft: medicine’s many personalities1
Trusting in lived experience1
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 21
From JRSM Open1
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Declaration of Helsinki: a new revision at sixty years1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness1
Death Notices1
The need for patient rights in AI-driven healthcare – risk-based regulation is not enough1
Global burden of malaria and neglected tropical diseases in children and adolescents, 1990–2019: a population-based, cross-sectional study1
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice1
Fail to learn, learn to fail: a warning for the NHS1
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned1
Death Notices1
Medical misinformation and the crisis of professional authority1
From JRSM Open1
Death Notices1
From JRSM Open0
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency0
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From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors0
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From JRSM Open0
We still know little about long COVID0
From JRSM Open0
Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues0
Regulating reliably: building high-reliability regulators in healthcare0
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?0
The history of controlled clinical trials in China. Part 1: from the advent of clinical trials through the conduct of single-centre or small-sample RCTs0
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Why better interpretation of science leads to better care0
Failing to learn? The NHS is losing its capacity for system-wide safety investigation0
Promoting informed health choices: the long and winding road – response0
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Death Notices0
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives0
From JRSM Open0
From JRSM Open0
Death Notices0
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The value of a good doctor0
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Death Notices0
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Who makes a good leader?0
Death Notices0
Promoting informed health choices: the long and winding road0
Death Notices0
Do patients matter in the age of AI?0
From JRSM Open0
Once a doctor, always a doctor0
What makes a good doctor – and who gets to decide?0
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Legal principles of shared decision-making for healthcare: what are we required to do?0
Financial difficulty in the medical profession0
Clinical failure: the unaddressed challenge0
Better health for vulnerable groups, better health for all0
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