OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of General Internal Medicine is 42. 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
Biliary Ascites	1017
COVID-19 Vaccination and Mental Health Distress	159
From the Editor’s Desk: Shared Decision-Making Cases in Clinical Practice—a New JGIM Series	149
Health Equity Insights from Machine Learning Models	142
Reply to the Letter to Editor by Lacout and colleagues: Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of COVID-19: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	115
An Exploratory Investigation of Heritage and Educational Language Exposures as Factors in Medical Student Spanish Language Proficiency	107
Prescription Patterns for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and SGLT2 Inhibitors by Physicians’ Years in Practice	97
Why Do Residents Discontinue Metformin on Admission? Exploring a Contestable Standard of Care	96
Identifying Core Functions and Forms of “Discharge by Noon” Interventions	89
A Proposed Framework to Aid Primary Care Clinicians in Promoting Cardiovascular Health	86
Screening and Referral for Social Needs Among Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Trial	86
Impact of Patient-Physician Language Concordance on Healthcare Utilization	85
Challenges and Policy Considerations of the Medicaid Unwinding for People with Disabilities	78
Comparing Quality, Costs, and Outcomes of VA and Community Primary Care for Patients with Diabetes	76
Impact of Referring High-Risk Patients to Intensive Outpatient Primary Care Services: A Propensity Score–Matched Analysis	75
What the Patient Considered Essential	75
A Novel Automated Algorithm to Identify Lung Cancer Screening from Free Text of Radiology Orders	67
Housing Status and Cancer Screening in US Veterans	66
Eight Ways General Internists Can Practice High-Value, Low-Carbon Care: The Canadian Society of Internal Medicine’s Climate Conscious Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendations	66
Are Newer Potassium Binding Agents Truly Better? Rethinking Sodium Polystyrene Sulfate and Emerging Therapies for Hyperkalemia	63
Relationship Between White Blood Cell Count and Bacteremia Using Interval Likelihood Ratios in Hospitalized Patients	60
Lead aVR, Forget Me Not	57
Physicians’ Conscience-Based Barriers to MAiD	57
Trends in Medicare Advantage Plans’ Adoption of Nonmedical Transportation Benefits	56
The Experience of Undocumented Individuals Denied Stem Cell Transplant for Hematologic Malignancies	53

New Frontiers in Diabetes Care	51
The Society of General Internal Medicine’s Recommendations to Improve LGBTQ + Health	51
Healthcare Worker Mental Health After the Initial Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a US Medical Center Cross-Sectional Survey	50
Relief in Sight? Chatbots, In-baskets, and the Overwhelmed Primary Care Clinician	50
EBM BLS: Ticagrelor without aspirin one month after percutaneous coronary intervention reduces bleeding without worse cardiovascular outcomes	50
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health, Occupational Functioning, and Professional Retention Among Health Care Workers and First Responders	48
Improving Veteran Engagement with Virtual Care Technologies: a Veterans Health Administration State of the Art Conference Research Agenda	47
Achieving Large-Scale Quality Improvement in Primary Care Annual Wellness Visits and Hierarchical Condition Coding	47
Travel Burden as a Measure of Healthcare Access and the Impact of Telehealth within the Veterans Health Administration	46
Estimating the Primary Care Workforce for Medicare Beneficiaries Using an Activity-Based Approach	45
Experiences of Patients and Their Caregivers Admitted to a Hospital-at-Home Program in Singapore: a Descriptive Qualitative Study	45
Long-term Psychoactive Medications, Polypharmacy, and Risk of Suicide and Unintended Overdose Death Among Midlife and Older Women Veterans	44
Building an Inclusive Future: Equity in Health and Health Services Research Workforce	44
Investments in Hospitalist Research Could Deliver Financial Returns to Academic Medical Centers	42
Perspectives on Medical Education Scholarship in 2025	42
Diagnosis Documentation Done Right: Cross-Specialty Standard for the Diagnosis Section in German Discharge Summaries — A Mixed-Methods Study	42
Why Clinicians Do Not Counsel Patients for More Road Traffic Safety	42