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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Medical stereotypes that must be shaken and stirred649
Vaccinating children against Covid: the elusive goal of herd immunity104
99.53% and the history of probability65
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science58
Death Notices53
Death Notices48
Who makes a good leader?40
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm37
From JRSM Open35
COVID-19 and herd immunity34
The unwanted legacies of COVID-1932
Medicolegal consequences of altered COVID-19 vaccine administration27
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement25
Why RECOVERY is a milestone in medical research24
Death Notices24
Building back better, fairer, greener22
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study22
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard19
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study18
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions18
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 1: angina relief and suggestion18
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A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates16
From JRSM Open15
Purpose and limitations of carbon footprinting for healthcare15
From JRSM Open14
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records14
English parallels to socialism: 1984–202414
The difference in all-cause mortality between COVID-19 patients treated with standard of care plus placebo and those treated with standard of care alone: a network meta-analysis of randomised controll14
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study12
How to advocate for vulnerable groups11
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant11
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness11
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The Sovietisation of British medicine10
Advocate or not to advocate: what is the point?10
From JRSM Open10
Reflections on translating passages on ‘empirical’ and ‘dogmatic’ medicine in Celsus’s De medicina. Part 110
Reports of randomised control trials should begin and conclude with up-to-date systematic reviews of other relevant trials: a 25-year audit of the quality of trial reports9
Ethical versus psychological issues in paediatric organ donation: an analysis of UK and Swiss practice9
Human, all too human – why artificial intelligence cannot “author” papers8
What’s medicine for?8
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis8
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns8
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Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis8
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Death Notices7
Trusting in lived experience7
From JRSM Open7
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Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?7
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?7
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study7
Should we be so radical as to overlook facts?7
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study6
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 rev6
Trust in healthcare6
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study6
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes6
The best and worst of role models across the generations6
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic6
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update5
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects5
From JRSM Open5
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry5
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From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors5
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Why do doctors make poor decisions? Spotlighting ‘noise’ as an under-recognised source of error in clinical practice5
From JRSM Open5
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises5
International medical graduates5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon5
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned5
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 15
Death Notices4
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Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Authors' reply, naturalistic outcomes paper4
A world class health service in the quality of staff and cost effectiveness4
COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in people with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 4 million people4
Ethnic differences in success at application for consultant posts among United Kingdom physicians from 2011 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study4
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–20214
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health4
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice4
Death Notices3
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Calling the end of the COVID-19 pandemic3
Death Notices3
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Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis3
Death Notices3
Death Notices3
Food in Daniel 1:1-16: the first report of a controlled experiment?3
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?3
Death Notices3
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry3
Moral distress and the importance of data3
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?3
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GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons3
From JRSM Open3
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award3
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context3
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland3
Death Notices3
The Sovietisation of British medicine3
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study3
MacLean 1818: comparing like with like and recognising ethical double standards in therapeutic experimentation3
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Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study3
Why a medical student’s learning environment matters: the enabling effect of supportive social climates3
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Harnessing international collaboration in the space sector to innovate healthcare2
If in doubt, think patient2
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks2
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?2
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When is a screening test not a screening test?2
From JRSM Open2
Intensive versus standard blood pressure control in older persons with or without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials2
Reporting and representation of underserved groups in intervention studies for patients with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review2
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study2
From JRSM Open2
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair2
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care2
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-192
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects2
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The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?2
From JRSM Open2
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‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’2
What does medical professionalism mean?2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality2
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Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises2
From JRSM Open2
From JRSM Open2
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?2
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 20202
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