OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Policy is 30. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 vaccine challenges: What have we learned so far and what remains to be done?	202
United but divided: Policy responses and people’s perceptions in the EU during the COVID-19 outbreak	140
12 Lessons learned from the management of the coronavirus pandemic	137
Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities	94
A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America	69
European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave	58
Strengthening vaccination programmes and health systems in the European Union: A framework for action	54
A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea: Policy lessons for aging countries	51
Lean thinking in healthcare – Findings from a systematic literature network and bibliometric analysis	50
Interventions promoting employee “speaking-up” within healthcare workplaces: A systematic narrative review of the international literature	49
When fear backfires: Emergency department accesses during the Covid-19 pandemic	44
The best person (or machine) for the job: Rethinking task shifting in healthcare	44
Practicing Corona – Towards a research agenda of health policies	44
Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic	42
Providing health services effectively during the first wave of COVID-19: A cross-country comparison on planning services, managing cases, and maintaining essential services	42
Overview and transparency of non-research payments to healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals from pharmaceutical companies in Japan: Analysis of payment data in 2016	41
The impact of price transparency on consumers and providers: A scoping review	41
New integrated care models in England associated with small reduction in hospital admissions in longer-term: A difference-in-differences analysis	39
Population density index and its use for distribution of Covid-19: A case study using Turkish data	38
A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe	37
Transformations in the landscape of primary health care during COVID-19: Themes from the European region	36
The impact of patient and public involvement in health research versus healthcare: A scoping review of reviews	36
Integration of health services for the elderly in Asia: A scoping review of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia	35
Early health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mediterranean countries: A tale of successes and challenges	34
School openings and the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A provincial-level analysis using the synthetic control method	34

Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame	34
Impact of interprofessional collaboration on chronic disease management: Findings from a systematic review of clinical trial and meta-analysis	33
Online alcohol sales and home delivery: An international policy review and systematic literature review	33
Do health systems cover the mouth? Comparing dental care coverage for older adults in eight jurisdictions	32
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control COVID-19	30
Reimbursement models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials: Approaches taken in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States	30