OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Immunoglobulin G ₄ -related breast disease: two cases treated successfully with rituximab	19
Evaluation of an individually tailored smoking-cessation intervention for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in an outpatient clinic	15
An unusual case of hip arthritis	14
Baseline serum levels of IgA anti-cyclic citrullinated protein antibodies in early rheumatoid arthritis predict radiographic progression after 11 years of treatment: a secondary analysis of the CIMEST	14
Rheumatoid arthritis with chylothorax: a case report	11
Special Issue on interstitial lung disease in the setting of rheumatic disorders	10
Editorial Board	10
Spontaneous fracture of the distal radius in a middle-aged woman with osseous sarcoidosis	10
Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and reliability of the EULAR Systemic Sclerosis Impact of Disease (ScleroID) questionnaire in a Danish population	10
A multidisciplinary lifestyle programme for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and metabolic syndrome-associated osteoarthritis: economic evaluation alongside the ‘Plants for Joints’ randomized contro	10
Retroperitoneal fibrosis requiring prompt nephrostomy in a case with immunoglobulin A vasculitis	9
How good is the agreement between clinical diagnoses and classification criteria fulfilment in axial spondyloarthritis? Results from the SPARTAKUS cohort	8
A tale of subcutaneous nodules of the hands	8
Successful treatment of rituximab in a steroid-dependent immunoglobulin A vasculitis patient with gastrointestinal involvement: a case report	8
Physical therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis: the patients’ perspective	8
Hyperlipidaemia-induced pancreatitis and infected intra-abdominal cysts in a boy with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report	8
Enthesitis in a European registry-based cohort of patients with psoriatic arthritis treated with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: clinical burden, patient-reported outcomes, and treatment response	8
Persistent shoulder pain as a first manifestation of vasculo-Behçet	8
The Symptoms in Persons At Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis (SPARRA) questionnaire: predicting clinical arthritis development	7
A preceptorship programme to learn ultrasonography for diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	7
Cardiovascular risk and cardiac involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: insights from a cross-sectional Swedish single-centre study	7
A case of normocalcaemic primary hyperparathyroidism misdiagnosed as ankylosing spondylitis	7
Dysregulated serum lipid profile and atherosclerosis in untreated female Takayasu arteritis patients: a propensity score-matched analysis	6
Adult-onset Still’s disease: analysis of a monocentric cohort of patients	6
Positive pregnancy outcome in an anti-SSA positive female with SLE and factor V Leiden following bimonthly IVIG administration	6

Organ-specific autoimmunity in primary Sjögren’s disease	6
Efficacy and safety of iguratimod combined with celecoxib in active axial spondyloarthritis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study	6
Validity of clinical psoriatic arthritis diagnoses made by rheumatologists in the Swedish National Patient Register	6
Sex distribution in psoriatic arthritis: a systematic literature review	6
Effect of monotherapy with conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or glucocorticoids on radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: a network meta-analysis of 64 treatment	6
Value of the chewing gum test for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis: a multicentre pilot study	6
Dantrolene, a ryanodine receptor stabilizer, is a candidate immunomodulator for treating rheumatic disease	6
Title Page	6
No association between vascular inflammation and estimated glomerular filtration rate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: secondary analysis of the TARGET trial	5
Lower limb pain as the initial manifestation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a case report	5
Real-world registry-based study on apremilast use in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in Finland	5
Incidence of seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis in Denmark: a nationwide population-based study	5
Elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte and monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratios are associated with increased flares and elevated cardiovascular disease risk in gout	5
‘Pencil-in-cup’ deformity may not be specific for psoriatic arthritis	5
Role of physical therapy in adult chronic non-bacterial osteitis: patients’ and therapists’ perspectives	5
Angioedema: hereditary or C1-inhibitor deficiency associated with systemic lupus erythematosus?	4
Cough as a clinical manifestation of giant cell arteritis	4
Effects of anti-interleukin-17 treatment on osteoblastic activity as assessed by ¹⁸ F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography in ankylosing	4
Case report: brucellosis with fever and eye pain as first symptoms	4
Correction	4
Generalized lichen sclerosus et atrophicus combined with ankylosing spondylitis responding to secukinumab	4
Exploring preferences of at-risk individuals for preventive treatments for rheumatoid arthritis	4
Late-onset Raynaud’s phenomenon in a 90-year-old male with polymyalgia rheumatica	4
Reduced prescription of TNF-inhibitors in chronic arthritis based on therapeutic drug monitoring: A randomized controlled trial	4
Differential diagnostics of polymyalgia rheumatica in a university hospital in Finland	4
Risk of cardiovascular diseases and gastrointestinal bleeding is comparable between celecoxib and non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a nationw	4
Two birds with one stone: a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and 17p + chronic lymphocytic leukaemia	4
Bridging the gap to arthroplasty: genicular artery embolization and semaglutide in a patient with severe obesity and refractory knee osteoarthritis	4
Multifocal native septic arthritis limited to peripheral small joints caused by Streptococcus pyogenes	4
Reviewer acknowledgement December 2022 – November 2023	4
Baricitinib for skin vasculitis in primary Sjögren’s disease: report of two cases	3
Methotrexate prolonged the shedding of replicable SARS-CoV-2 with re-increased antigens in a rheumatoid arthritis patient	3
Risk factors for shoulder pain and stiffness in adults aged 44 and older: an 11-year longitudinal population-based study	3
Unsupervised clustering to differentiate rheumatoid arthritis patients based on proteomic signatures	3
Self-limiting reactive disease mimicking polymyalgia rheumatica following Moderna COVID-19 vaccine	3
Atypical skin manifestations in late-onset lupus: challenging diagnosis	3
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus in normocalcaemic multiorgan sarcoidosis: a rare renal manifestation	3
Environmental and occupational factors in the aetiopathogenesis of systemic sclerosis: insights from a large multinational patient survey	3
Does lacrimal gland ultrasound discriminate between Sjögren’s disease and non-Sjögren’s sicca patients?	3
Rheumatoid arthritis complicated by sacroiliac joint infection: a case report	3
Van Neck–Odelberg disease in an elderly patient	3
Prognostic value of serum protein electrophoresis constituents for arthritis development in anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive patients with musculoskeletal pain	3
Development and validation of a patient knowledge questionnaire for rheumatoid arthritis (PKQ-RA-11) in Danish and German	3
Retention rates of different Janus kinase inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: experience from a large monocentric cohort	3
Comparing the safety and efficacy of nintedanib starting dose in patients with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases	3
A novel role for endoplasmic reticulum protein ERp72 in the pathogenesis of autoantibody-induced arthritis	3
Long-term association between physical activity and global functioning in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: results of a two-year prospective study	3
A case of relapsing polychondritis localized to the laryngeal cartilage in which FDG-PET/CT was helpful for diagnosis	3
Warthin tumour and IgG-₄-RD with pleural involvement: shared immunity or coincidence?	3
Limit of the detection of hip joint synovitis using ultrasound in a patient with polymyalgia rheumatica	2

Synovial chondromatosis in a patient with atypical rheumatoid arthritis confirmed by clinical, radiographic, and pathological evidence: a case report	2
Rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of major cardiometabolic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study	2
Evaluation of concomitant peripheral arthritis in early axial spondyloarthritis: results from a 24 month follow-up (Italian arm of SPACE study)	2
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and rheumatoid arthritis: severe exacerbations, pneumonia, and death in a population-based cohort	2
Cohort study of serological biomarkers for interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis	2
Von Willebrand factor: a possible biomarker for disease activity in vasculitis	2
Prevalence of survey-based criteria for fibromyalgia and impact on hospital burden: a 7 year follow-up study from an outpatient clinic	2
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in patients with COVID-19 like symptoms from the IENIMINI cohort	2
Exploratory study of predictors of decreased ability to perform activities of daily living in people living with hand osteoarthritis	2
KLF15 deficiency accelerates cartilage destruction in inflammatory arthritis	2
Immunoglobulin G/immunoglobulin M autoantibody ratios in incomplete systemic lupus erythematosus	2
Shoulder injection of platelet-rich plasma versus corticosteroids in rotator cuff tendinopathies	2
Danish translation and cultural adaptation of the Psoriatic arthritis UnclutteRed screening Evaluation (PURE-4) scale	2
Assessing cervical rotation in ankylosing spondylitis: iPhone Compass versus traditional tools	2
Assessment of colchicine adherence and influencing factors in paediatric familial Mediterranean fever	2
Similar gout flare incidence rates when using once- or twice-daily 0.5 mg colchicine prophylaxis after the start of xanthine oxidase inhibitors	2
Disease Activity Score in 28 joints using C-reactive protein based remission state and still residual swollen joints: theoretically possible, but does it occur in the real world?	2
Differentiating familial Mediterranean fever attacks from acute appendicitis in children: which laboratory parameters are useful?	2
Lupus profundus-associated SLE: complete remission with combination antimalarial therapy	2
‘Pencil-in-cup’ deformity in systemic sclerosis–rheumatoid arthritis overlap syndrome	2
Sequential ultrasound in arthralgia patients at risk for inflammatory arthritis: is it of added value in risk stratification?	2
Tomographic ultrasound for three-dimensional visualization of temporal arteries	2
The validity of the Danish version of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire – Revised applied in a clinical setting: a Rasch analysis	2
Patients with laboratory criteria of anti-phospholipid syndrome and ‘non-criteria’ manifestations: a multicenter cohort	2
SARS-CoV-2 test patterns in Danish patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Paradoxical Raynaud’s phenomenon following iloprost infusion in a patient with systemic sclerosis	2
Gout in Dalarna, Sweden – a population-based study of gout occurrence and compliance to treatment guidelines	2
Agreement between child- and parent-reported orofacial symptoms in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis	2
Impact of osteoarthritis disease severity on treatment patterns and healthcare resource use: analysis of real-world data	2
A rare encounter: Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease presenting atypically after BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination: a case report	2
Correction	2
Giant mass-like ankle pannus in rheumatoid arthritis	2
Thiemann’s disease: a very rare bone disorder	2
A patient with multiple sclerosis successfully treated with tofacitinib for rheumatoid arthritis	2
Evaluation of therapeutic plasma exchange in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis in real-life settings: long-term results of propensity score matching analysis in high-risk pati	2
Delayed-onset angioedema and urticaria during long-term hydroxychloroquine therapy in Sjögren’s disease	2
Psychometric evaluation of the Norwegian version of the Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire	2
Anti-thrombotics and major adverse cardiovascular events in anti-phospholipid syndrome: a cross-sectional study using the 2016–2018 National Inpatient Sample database	2