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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
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International medical graduates78
How to advocate for vulnerable groups60
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?56
From JRSM Open48
Death Notices47
Learning the craft – own experience39
From JRSM Open36
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Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias34
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care33
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises29
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened29
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair26
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award22
Death Notices22
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’21
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?20
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland18
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective17
John Keats: the mystery years16
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Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic15
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?14
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure14
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT12
Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups12
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic12
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research12
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision11
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months11
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic11
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS11
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Death Notices11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death11
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?11
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative11
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis10
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 202110
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?10
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype9
The development of network meta-analysis9
Death Notices8
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway8
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
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
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding8
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator8
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval8
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction8
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
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages8
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks7
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies7
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education7
From JRSM Open6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis6
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials6
Death Notices6
Healthcare and feminism6
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading6
Death Notices6
Death Notices6
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
From JRSM Open5
Death Notices5
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing5
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’5
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From JRSM Open5
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 15
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records5
Death Notices4
If in doubt, think patient4
Death Notices4
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 14
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic4
From JRSM Open4
Death Notices4
From JRSM Open4
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
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GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons4
Death Notices3
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The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism3
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
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Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
From JRSM Open3
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments3
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom3
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope3
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
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?3
Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England3
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
Death Notices3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
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Death Notices3
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
Lessons from the pandemic: the award of honours2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review2
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform2
From JRSM Open2
‘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
From JRSM Open2
What’s medicine for?2
Response to Bowsher et al. (2021) veterinary intelligence2
From JRSM Open2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
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General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals2
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited2
Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea2
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Social care need in multimorbidity2
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