Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 3. 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
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective17
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The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?17
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
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
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic13
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative12
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision12
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
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
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway8
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
Healthcare and feminism7
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
From JRSM Open6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis6
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
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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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Death Notices4
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people4
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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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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