Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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International medical graduates108
How to advocate for vulnerable groups69
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?65
From JRSM Open55
Death Notices53
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement42
Learning the craft – own experience39
From JRSM Open37
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias34
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Death Notices31
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises29
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care29
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair25
Death Notices24
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award21
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened20
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’19
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?18
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study17
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective16
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland16
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?15
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John Keats: the mystery years13
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic12
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure12
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research11
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT11
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review11
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic11
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
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative10
Young people and COVID-19: emerging mental health concerns10
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic10
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision10
Death Notices10
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?9
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months9
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis9
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death9
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS9
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
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 Treasure8
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?8
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction8
The development of network meta-analysis8
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Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype8
Death Notices8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages7
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
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’7
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator7
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance7
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway7
Death Notices6
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading6
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks6
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Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis6
Death Notices6
Healthcare and feminism6
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies6
From JRSM Open6
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials6
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 15
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?5
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’5
From JRSM Open5
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing5
Death Notices5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
Death Notices5
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
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records4
Death Notices4
From JRSM Open4
From JRSM Open4
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 14
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis4
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An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people3
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’3
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Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
Death Notices3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
Death Notices3
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons3
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
From JRSM Open3
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism3
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Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
Death Notices3
If in doubt, think patient3
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security3
From JRSM Open3
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia3
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
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Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England2
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots2
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Lessons from the pandemic: the award of honours2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited2
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?2
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom2
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There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
Response to Bowsher et al. (2021) veterinary intelligence2
Social care need in multimorbidity2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
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Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform2
Death Notices2
Death Notices2
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm2
From JRSM Open2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism2
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic2
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From JRSM Open2
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments2
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