OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Forensic Science International is 25. 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
Violence against women in the Covid-19 pandemic: A review of the literature and a call for shared strategies to tackle health and social emergencies	107
Dimensionality reduction and visualisation of hyperspectral ink data using t-SNE	73
A DWT-SVD based robust digital watermarking for medical image security	72
The Sydney declaration – Revisiting the essence of forensic science through its fundamental principles	62
Recent advances in digital image manipulation detection techniques: A brief review	60
DNA methylation age estimation in blood samples of living and deceased individuals using a multiplex SNaPshot assay	41
Biowarfare, bioterrorism and biocrime: A historical overview on microbial harmful applications	41
Forensic soil analysis using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and Fourier transform infrared total attenuated reflectance spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR): Principles and case studies	39
Fatal poisoning in drug addicts in the Nordic countries in 2017	39
Providing illicit drugs results in five seconds using ultra-portable NIR technology: An opportunity for forensic laboratories to cope with the trend toward the decentralization of forensic capabilitie	38
The synthetic cannabinoid 5F-MDMB-PICA: A case series	37
Vitreous humor endogenous compounds analysis for post-mortem forensic investigation	36
Cannabidiol and tetrahydrocannabinol concentrations in commercially available CBD E-liquids in Switzerland	34
Strengthening the role of forensic anthropology in personal identification: Position statement by the Board of the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE)	34
Assessment of a portable quadrupole-based gas chromatography mass spectrometry for seized drug analysis	33
Fatal methemoglobinemia: A case series highlighting a new trend in intentional sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate ingestion as a method of suicide	29
Isotonitazene: Fatal intoxication in three cases involving this unreported novel psychoactive substance in Switzerland	28
Chemsex/slamsex-related intoxications: A case report involving gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and 3-methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) and a review of the literature	28
Contrasting insect activity and decomposition of pigs and humans in an Australian environment: A preliminary study	27
Automatic human identification from panoramic dental radiographs using the convolutional neural network	26
Carfentanil – from an animal anesthetic to a deadly illicit drug	26
Emergence of new psychoactive substance 2-fluorodeschloroketamine: Toxicology and urinary analysis in a cluster of patients exposed to ketamine and multiple analogues	26
A new LC-MS/MS confirmation method for the determination of 17 drugs of abuse in oral fluid and its application to real samples	26
Age estimation in the living: A scoping review of population data for skeletal and dental methods	25
Retrospective screening of synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic opioids and designer benzodiazepines in data files from forensic post mortem samples analysed by UHPLC-QTOF-MS from 2014 to 2018	25

Fatal intoxication related to two new arylcyclohexylamine derivatives (2F-DCK and 3-MeO-PCE)	25
Operationalising forensic genetic genealogy in an Australian context	25
Bitten or struck by dog: A rising number of fatalities in Europe, 1995–2016	25