OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Patient Education and Counseling is 33. 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.)

Article	Citations
Shared decision-making among non-physician healthcare professionals: Enhancing patient involvement in women’s reproductive health in community healthcare settings	219
A global collaboration: The Advisory Committee of EACH International Association for Communication in Healthcare	93
Effectiveness of a minimal virtual motivational interviewing training for first years medical students: differentiating between pre-test and then-test	88
Health Literacy throughout adolescence: Invariance and validity study of three measurement scales in the general population	85
The authors’ reply: Completing the picture on student performances in OSCEs: A mixed-methods study on integration of a standardized patient rating	84
Patient-centered innovation: Will it become as deep as it is broad?	84
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan	83
Parents’ information needs, treatment concerns, and psychological well-being when their child is diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A systematic review	81
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease	70
Shared decision making process measures and patient problems	63
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency	61
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective	58
The interaction of sexual orientation and provider-patient communication on sexual and reproductive health in a sample of U.S. women of diverse sexual orientations	57
The development of incorpoRATE: A measure of physicians’ willingness to incorporate shared decision making into practice	53
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy	51
Making decisions on your own: Self-administered decision aids about colorectal cancer screening – A systematic review and meta-analyses	51
New Associate Editor of Patient Education and Counseling	49
Associations between communication OSCE performance and admission interviews in medical education	46
The role of accountability in adherence programs	45
Warding off a tyranny of reliability and validity	44
Fragmented world, connected community: success factors of the first online EACH Summer School for early-career researchers	41
Australian patients’ perception of the efficacy of the physical activity referral scheme (PARS)	41
The role of social networks in prognostic understanding of older adults with advanced cancer	41
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations	39
Underlying mechanisms of diabetes knowledge influencing diabetes self-management behaviors among patients with type II diabetes in rural China: Based on health belief model	39

Editorial Board	38
Postpartum Blues	37
Taking pause: Drawing from the history of neurology during COVID-19	36
Found in translation	36
A special kind of stress: Assessing feelings of decisional distress for breast cancer treatment decisions	36
On multiple miscarriages	36
Health literacy in Switzerland: a representative study	35
Exploring types of conversational agents for resolving cancer patients’ questions and concerns: Analysis of 100 telephone consultations on breast cancer	35
Qualitative assessment of uptake retention and evaluation of prevention materials for skin cancer among Hispanics	33
Predictors of the likelihood that patients with rheumatoid arthritis will communicate information about rheumatoid arthritis risk to relatives: A quantitative assessment	33
More than just hair	33
Editorial Board	33