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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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International medical graduates74
How to advocate for vulnerable groups58
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?55
From JRSM Open44
Death Notices41
Learning the craft – own experience39
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement35
From JRSM Open34
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias33
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Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened29
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care29
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises26
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair22
Death Notices21
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award20
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?18
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’18
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland17
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective16
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John Keats: the mystery years14
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic13
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure12
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT12
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?12
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 Initiative11
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic11
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research11
Death Notices11
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic11
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death10
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?10
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS10
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The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months9
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
Death Notices8
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
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
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype8
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis8
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding8
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages7
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance7
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
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks7
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials6
From JRSM Open6
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education6
Death Notices6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis6
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies6
Death Notices6
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading6
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 15
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’5
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Healthcare and feminism5
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing5
From JRSM Open5
Death Notices5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
From JRSM Open4
From JRSM Open4
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records4
Death Notices4
Death Notices4
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis4
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 14
From JRSM Open3
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
Death Notices3
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism3
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
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 rev3
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons3
Death Notices3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England3
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security3
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An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia3
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic3
Death Notices3
If in doubt, think patient3
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Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope3
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
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James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
From JRSM Open3
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Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm2
Response to Bowsher et al. (2021) veterinary intelligence2
General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
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From JRSM Open2
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
Social care need in multimorbidity2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
From JRSM Open2
Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea2
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
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited2
Death Notices2
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments2
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
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals2
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Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?2
Death Notices2
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