OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Accreditation and Quality Assurance 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)-based approach for risk assessment of scientific processes in non-regulated research laboratories	22
European current landscape in laboratory accreditation	13
Meaningful expression of uncertainty in measurement	8
Getting started with uncertainty evaluation using the Monte Carlo method in R	8
Challenges for the estimation of uncertainty of measurements made in situ	7
Human health risk assessment of pesticide residues in pointed gourd collected from retail markets of Dhaka City, Bangladesh	7
True value, error, and measurement uncertainty: two views	6
Environmental monitoring of total mercury content in different marine compartments after cold vapor generation and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry determination	5
Reference measurement procedure for the determination of mass fraction of fat content in food	5
Total cow’s milk protein in cookies: the first interlaboratory comparison with a well-defined measurand fit for food allergen risk assessment	5
System proposal for implementation of risk management in the context of ISO/IEC 17025	5
A review of issues of quality assurance and quality accreditation for higher education institutions and the situation in Vietnam	5
Impact of the sampling process on the measurement uncertainty, a case study: physicochemical parameters in diesel	5
Inter-laboratory proficiency testing of the measurement of gypsum parameters with small numbers of participants	5
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on accredited conformity assessment bodies: insights from a multinational study	5
An accuracy-based proficiency testing programme with metrological reference values for the mass fraction of acesulfame potassium and sucralose in cake mix flour	4
Metrological technical specification for purity assessment of organic pure substance certified reference materials in China	4
Assessment of homogeneity and stability of new reference material of passion-flower fruits for proficiency testing: Pesticide residues in purple passion fruit (Passiflora pinnatistipula)	4
Comparing uncertainties—Are they really different?	4
Preparation of a reference material for tea containing five pesticide residues and its evaluation in an interlaboratory comparison study in China	4
Is harmonisation of performance assessment in non-quantitative proficiency testing possible/necessary?	4
Validation and measurement uncertainty of rapid and simultaneous determination of 19 elements in drinking water using ICP-MS	4
A proposal of model for a quality management system in research testing laboratories	4
Validation and measurement uncertainty evaluation of a GC/MS method for the quantification of nine phthalates in tattoo and PMU inks	3
Calculation of the expanded uncertainty for large uncertainties using the lognormal distribution	3

Quantification of total mercury in samples from cement production processing with thermal decomposition coupled with AAS	3
“State of the art” for competency assessment in Australian medical laboratories	3
The provision and use of traceability statements for reference materials	3
Accreditation in Croatia: What is the position of testing and calibration laboratories from the science and higher education system?	3
The path to continual improvement and business excellence: compliance to ISO standards versus a business excellence approach	3
Key issues related to the accreditation of academic laboratories	2
Bilateral comparison of primary reference materials (PRMs) containing methanol, ethanol and acetone in nitrogen	2
Complying with the resource requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in Indonesian calibration and testing laboratories: current challenges and future directions	2
External quality assessment (EQA) combined with on-site technical evaluation for capacity building in clinical microbiology laboratories in Pakistan	2
Interlaboratory comparisons of chemical measurements: Quo Vadis?	2
Assessment of liquids homogeneity in storage tanks in the oil industry through the comparison of uncertainties	2
GUM guidance on developing and using measurement models	2
Pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables in Indonesia: findings of five-year proficiency testing	2
Improved quantification of mass fraction of colorants in textile by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometric detector	2
Application of secondary pH measurement method for homogeneity and stability assessment of reference materials	2
Optimization of medium composition for production of a simulated urine sample containing Enterococcus faecalis	2
Development of low and elevated level multivitamin and mineral supplement certified reference materials: VITA-1 and VITB-1	2
A review of proficiency exercises offered by the Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN) and Moffett Proficiency Testing Laboratory from 2012 to 2018	2
Estimation of the measurement uncertainty, including the contribution arising from sampling, of water quality parameters in surface waters of the Loire-Bretagne river basin, France	2
Simultaneous determination of multi-class pesticide metabolites in fish (Siluriformes: Ariidae): protocol developed for human dietary risk in Ceará coast, Brazil	2
Some pitfalls in the uncertainty evaluation of isotope delta reference materials	2
Identifying risk management challenges in laboratories	2
Trends in the development of proficiency testing for chemical analysis: focus on food and environmental matrices	2
An empirical study: The multidimensionality of the quality management in determining university research laboratories performance	2
A new methodology for proficiency testing scheme interpretation based on residual analysis	2