OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Rural Health is 4. 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
Use of electronic health records to manage tobacco screening and treatment in rural primary care	94
Rural‐urban differences in social and emotional protective factors and their association with child health and flourishing	67
Urban–rural differences in cancer mortality: Operationalizing rurality	66
Improving colorectal cancer screening in rural primary care: Preliminary effectiveness and implementation of a collaborative mailed fecal immunochemical test pilot	44
Rural/urban differences in access to paid sick leave among full‐time workers	33
Who produces and funds rural health research?	26
“Live your life cuz everybody's terminal”: Describing emotions and coping behaviors of rural advanced cancer patients	25
Farm vehicle crashes on public roads: Analysis of farm‐level factors	25
Higher prevalence of hysterectomy among rural women than urban women: Implications for measures of disparities in uterine and cervical cancers	24
Rural disparities in end‐of‐life care for patients with heart failure: Are they due to geography or socioeconomic disparity?	22
The Journal of Rural Health Reviewers, July 2020‐June 2021	20
Nurse practitioner scope of practice and the prevention of foot complications in rural diabetes patients	19
Communities with an anchor institution have higher coronavirus vaccination rates	18
Evaluation of treatment access and scope of a multistate hepatitis C virus Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes telehealth service in the US Indian Health System, 2017‐2021	17
Medicare accountable care organization characteristics associated with participation in 2‐sided risk	17
Changes in transmucosal buprenorphine utilization for opioid use disorder treatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Kentucky	17
Effect of residence in nonmetropolitan counties on stage and tumor size at diagnosis in patients with breast cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis	17
Issue Information	16
Medical education for African American communities in the rural South: A focus group approach to identify fundamental considerations	16
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Factors associated with quality of life, depressive symptoms, and perceived stress among rural older adults living with HIV in the United States	15
Development and initial validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale	14
Efforts by critical access hospitals to increase health equity through greater engagement with social determinants of health	14
Rural Veterans with HIV and Alcohol Use Disorder receive less video telehealth than urban Veterans	13
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Issue Information	12
Comparative effectiveness of two interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening among females living in the rural Midwest	12
Patient reports of cancer care coordination in rural Hawaii	12
Rural‐specific identity and associations with lifestyle behaviors and well‐being among rural cancer survivors	12
Geographic disparities in late HIV diagnoses in Tennessee: Opportunities for interventions in the rural Southeast	12
Racial and gender differences in relapse potential and treatment acceptance among rural residents in a substance use disorder treatment program	12
State health disparities research in Rural America: Gaps and future directions in an era of COVID‐19	12
Anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and professional quality of life among the hospital workforce during a global health pandemic	11
Rural‐urban differences in uptake of diabetes self‐management education among Medicare beneficiaries: Results from the 2016 to 2018 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey	11
Erratum	10
Is being there enough? Postgraduate nurse practitioner residencies in rural primary care	9
Drug disposal deserts: An assessment of receptacle availability in Kentucky community pharmacies	9
Farm Dinner Theater: Testing an innovative health and safety intervention among older farmers and their families	9
Cancer disparities in Appalachian Kentucky	9
Rural/urban differences in the prevalence of stroke risk factors: A cross‐sectional analysis from the REGARDS study	9
An assessment of the rural‐urban differences in the crash response time and county‐level crash fatalities in the United States	9
Impact of Medicaid expansion on stage of diagnosis of lung cancer for rural and urban patients in New Hampshire	8
A new model‐based approach for estimating rural hospital markets	8
Travel burden in a rural primary care behavioral weight loss randomized trial: Impact on visit attendance and weight loss	8
An updated model of rural hospital financial distress	8
Ambulatory care utilization in the first 24 months’ postpartum by rurality and pregnancy‐related conditions: A prospective cohort study from Maine	8
Rural–urban movement and stability in relation to minority stress‐related factors, tobacco norms, and tobacco use among a sample of US sexual minority‐identifying young adults	8
Individual‐ and environmental‐level determinants of fruit and vegetable intakes in rural Georgia	8
Patient perspectives of the impact of a rural health center closure: A cross‐sectional survey	8
Well‐being interventions for rural health professionals: A scoping review	8
Medicare Advantage and rural hospital profitability	8
Clinical outcomes and profitability following rural hospital mergers and acquisitions	8
Medication treatment for opioid use disorder among rural primary care patients	7
The role of digital health technology in rural cancer care delivery: A systematic review	7
Changes in access to community health services among rural areas affected and unaffected by hospital closures between 2006 and 2018: A comparative interrupted time series study	7
Community responses and adaptations following the closure of a rural pharmacy and primary care facility	7
Association between the geographic accessibility of PrEP and PrEP use among MSM in nonurban areas	7
Trends in and factors associated with family physician‐performed screening colonoscopies in the United States: 2016‐2021	7
Availability of hospital‐based cancer services before and after rural hospital closure, 2008‐2017	7
Rural‐urban differences in informal caregiving and health‐related quality of life	7
Supporting Critical Access Hospital operational and financial improvement through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program	6
Syringe services programs in the Bluegrass: Evidence of population health benefits using Kentucky Medicaid data	6
Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action	6
The struggles that are faced with a rural cancer diagnosis: My personal story	6
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and long COVID among California farmworkers	6
Telephone veteran peer coaching for mental health treatment engagement among rural veterans: The importance of secondary outcomes and qualitative data in a randomized controlled trial	6
Issue Information	6
Prenatal substance use in the rural and Appalachian state: Project WATCH study 2020‐2022	6
Rural/urban differences in receipt of governmental rental assistance: Relationship to health and disability	6
We are all in this together: Rurality, Social cohesion, and COVID‐19 prevention behaviors	6
Incidental sun exposures as a source of sunburn among rural compared to urban residents in the United States	6
Associations of tobacco use and consumption with rurality among patients with psychiatric disorders: Does smoke‐free policy matter?	6
Rural disparities in the quality of clinical care are notable and larger for males	6
The Breast‐Imaging Operations, Practices and Systems Inventory: A framework to examine mammography facility effects on screening in rural communities	6
Cross‐sectional survey study of primary care clinics on evidence‐based colorectal cancer screening intervention use	6

Impact of higher payments for rural home health episodes on rehospitalizations	5
The effect of broadband access on electronic patient engagement activities: Assessment of urban‐rural differences	5
Barriers and facilitators to HIV care engagement: Recommendations from people with HIV in rural Arkansas	5
The impact of patient–provider relationships on choosing between VA and VA‐purchased care: A qualitative study of health care decision‐making among rural veterans	5
Rural‐urban trends in health care utilization, treatment, and mortality among US veterans with congestive heart failure: A retrospective cohort study	5
Heightened interest in rural health: The Journal of Rural Health moves into the top 10 ranked health policy and services publications	5
Trends in patient perceptions of care toward rural and urban hospitals in the United States: 2014‐2019	5
Nursing turnover in a large, rural health system	5
Perspectives of cancer prevention and control resources from stakeholders in rural southern Illinois	5
Assessing the relationship between census tract rurality and severe maternal morbidity in California (1997‐2018)	5
Rural‐urban differences in hospitalizations for opioid use‐associated infective endocarditis in Kentucky, 2016‐2019	5
Exploring COVID‐19 census burdens by US hospital characteristics: Implications of quality reporting at rural and critical access hospitals	5
Telehealth among substance using justice‐involved persons on community supervision: Benefits, challenges, and suggestions for future use	5
Broadband access within Medically Underserved Areas and its implication for telehealth utilization	5
Stress and suicidal ideation among first‐generation farmers: A cross‐sectional study with 1,288 farmers in Georgia	5
Empowering our people: Predictors of retention in an STI risk reduction program among rural Native Americans with binge substance use	5
Farmer Suicide in Wisconsin: A Qualitative Analysis	5
Geographic differences in contraception provision and utilization among federally funded family planning clinics in South Carolina and Alabama	5
Issue Information	5
The uneven impact of Medicaid expansion on rural and urban Black, Latino/a, and White mortality	4
Rural‐urban divide in risk perception of LSD: Implications for psychedelic‐assisted therapy	4
Rural–urban differences in mental health and psychotherapy use among veterans with military sexual trauma: A retrospective cohort study	4
“It was a good opportunity for us to be in touch with public health”: Independent community pharmacists’ experiences working with public health before and during COVID‐19	4
Understanding the relationship between social capital, health, and well‐being in a southern rural population	4
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on rural and urban cancer patients' experiences, health behaviors, and perceptions	4
A cross‐sectional study of alcohol, opioid use, and anxiety in agriculturally based occupations	4
Drive time to care and retention in HIV care: Rural–urban differences among Medicaid enrollees in the United States South	4
Health care access barriers among metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations of eight geographically diverse states, 2018	4
Expanding the opioid use disorder medication treatment workforce in rural communities through the RCORP initiative	4
The influence of rurality on self‐reported physical therapy utilization among patients with severe chronic back pain in the United States	4
Sleep well and live well: Impact of sleep hygiene intervention on sleep duration in a rural community: A randomized controlled trial (THE SWELL STUDY)	4
“I'm tired of seeing my friends die”: Barriers and facilitators to participating in clinical trials among rural people who use drugs in the United States	4
Sleep disorders among rural Veterans: Relative prevalence, comorbidities, and comparisons with urban Veterans	4
Understanding opioid use within a Southwestern American Indian Reservation Community: A qualitative study	4
I offer “Ambulatory Surgical Center‐as‐Collaborator” to expand availability of colonoscopy with family physicians	4
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Adult perceptions of mental health access barriers facing youth in rural Washington State: A group concept mapping study	4
Correction to “Rural–urban disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality vary by poverty level and region”	4
Issue Information	4
Substance use disorders in the farming population: Scoping review	4
Antibiotic prescribing to Kentucky Medicaid children, 2012‐2017: Prescribing is higher in rural areas	4
How rural is All of Us? Comparing characteristics of rural participants in the National Institute of Health's All of Us Research Program to other national data sources	4
Missed opportunities for human papillomavirus vaccination using Iowa's Immunization Registry Information System	4