OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Radiological Protection 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Combined radiation burn injuries: A note	96
Low doses of ionising radiation: definitions and contexts	40
Eye lens dosimetry: does the direction of rotation (vertical or horizontal) play a role in type testing?	40
Radiological safety assessment for transportation of reactor pressure vessel during decommissioning of a nuclear power plant in Korea	32
Absorbed dose coefficients for pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer patients undergoing radioiodine therapy	31
Object and person tracking systems to enable extremity dosimetry in nuclear medicine using computational methods	26
JRODOS customization for Pakistan and assessment of the consequences of a hypothetical nuclear accident	25
Approaches to the definition of potentially exposed groups and potentially exposed populations of biota in the context of solid radioactive waste	21
Urban working groups in the IAEA’s model testing programmes: overview from the MODARIA I and MODARIA II programmes	20
Towards an ecological modelling approach for assessing ionizing radiation impact on wildlife populations	19
Political issues encouraging discrimination and prejudice associated with radiation exposure in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) incident for political purposes: a case of five former	17
Development and inference of disability-adjusted life years attributable to prolonged radiation exposure based on the calculation method of radiation detriment	17
UK audit of variation in nuclear medicine occupational exposure calculations in 2021	16
The scientific basis for the use of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model at low doses and dose rates in radiological protection	16
Estimation of population exposure to terrestrial gamma rays in Canada	16
Regulation the medical uses of ionising radiation during the full-scale Russian invasion to Ukraine	16
Effective doses and risks from medical diagnostic x-ray examinations for male and female patients from childhood to old age	15
Raman spectroscopy of x-ray irradiated blood plasma: a pilot study	15
Establishment of national diagnostic reference levels for computed tomography procedures in Sri Lanka: first nationwide dose survey	15
Potential harm to the skin from unfiltered krypton chloride ‘far-ultraviolet-C’ lamps, even below an occupational exposure limit	15
Lead aprons and thyroid collars: to be, or not to be?	14
Comparison of shielding effects of over-glasses-type and regular eyewear in terms of occupational eye dose reduction	14
Health risks from radioactive particles on Cumbrian beaches near the Sellafield nuclear site	13
Proposal and validation of weighting factors for the weighted computed tomography dose index in dual-energy computed tomography	13
A review of radiation doses and associated parameters in Western Australian mining operations (2020-23)	13

Jan Olof Snihs (1932–2025)	12
Richard Haylock and the nuclear test veterans	12
Basic characteristics of Vision badge and its performance as an eye lens dosimeter for endoscopists	12
Reducing risks through regulatory cooperation: a review of bilateral regulatory cooperation between the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority and corresponding authorities in countries of t	12
Regional diagnostic reference levels in paediatric interventional cardiology in Latin America and the Caribbean countries	12
Survey on the distribution of medical imaging frequencies and dose levels for CT examinations in a comprehensive hospital in Shanghai	12
Obituary for Wolfgang Weiss	11
Radiation detriment calculation methodology: summary of ICRP Publication 152	11
Demonstrating the use of a framework for risk-informed decisions with stakeholder engagement through case studies for NORM and nuclear legacy sites	11
Eye lens dose for medical staff assisting patients during computed tomography: comparison of several types of radioprotective glasses	11
Cardiologist’s exposure to radiation in cath lab measured with Instadose^TM dosimeter	10
Assessment of the total SBO accident progression after extended shutdown of VVER-1000	10
Lessons being learned from the Covid-19 pandemic for radiological emergencies and vice versa: report from expert discussions	10
Trends and evolution in computed tomography radiation dose from 2018 and 2023: a Swiss perspective of the medical radiation exposure^*	10
Eye lens dose and shielding efficacy of radiation-protective eyewear in C-arm–guided cervical and lumbar epidural blocks: a phantom study	10
A machine learning approach for correcting glow curve anomalies in CaSO₄:Dy-based TLD dosimeters used in personnel monitoring	9
Ionizing radiation and skin cancer—a review of current evidence	9
Responding to radiation accidents: what more do we need to know?	9
Cutaneous and local radiation injuries	9
Evaluation of consumer digital radon measurement devices: a comparative analysis	9
Epidemiologic contributions to radiation risk assessment	8
How much resources are reasonable to spend on radiological protection?	8
Surface-clearance levels for the normal reuse of objects for 413 radionuclides	8
Thorium bioassay of miners revisited	8
Synthesis of the European ALARA network 20th workshop ‘ALARA for interventional radiology and nuclear medicine’	7
External radiation spatial distribution and safety assessment of yttrium-90 resin microsphere selective hepatic radioembolisation therapy	7
Progress with the regulation of radiation safety during recovery and removal of spent nuclear fuel from the site for temporary storage at Andreeva Bay on the Kola Peninsula	7
Twenty-first annual Warren K. Sinclair keynote address: challenges faced by studies of nuclear industry workers ^*	7
Review of assessment of prospective cancer risks from occupational exposure to ionising radiation (IAEA-TECDOC-1985)	7
Methodological developments and practice in characterisation of unconventional and legacy waste	7
British nuclear test veteran family trios for the study of genetic risk	7
An analytical tool for calculating kerma-to-dose equivalent average conversion coefficients (H _p(10), H _p(3), H	7
Personal dosimetry for positron emitters, and occupational exposures from clinical use of gallium-68	7
X-ray spectrometry for calculating conversion coefficients from air kerma to operational quantities in radiation protection	6
Tritium dispersion analysis using HotSpot code: a comparative study across reactor types and environmental conditions	6
Radiation dose aspects and establishment of diagnostic reference levels for ⁹⁰Y radioembolisation during angiographic procedure	6
Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis (the Goldacre review)	6
Practical guidance on the assessment of radiation risks for diagnostic radiological examinations	6
Design and development of a detector system and software tool installed on a mobile laboratory to provide both radiological characterisation of large areas and a simple tool for localising radioactive	6
Practical application of international recommendations and safety standards in the systematic planning and implementation of remediation of sites or areas with residual radioactive material	6
¹³¹I dose coefficients for a reference population using age-specific models	6
Influence of tube and patient positioning in thoracoabdominal CT examinations on radiation exposure–towards a better patient positioning	6
Are we being prudent, precautionary, or both?	6
Conversion from dose-length product to effective dose in computed tomography venography of the lower extremities	6
Numerical assessment of induced electric fields in a worker’s hand with commonly used metallic implants under exposure to low frequency magnetic fields	6
Development of a method to use standard hospital gamma cameras as triage whole body monitors in UK emergencies	6
Comparing benefit and detriment from medical diagnostic radiation exposure using disability-adjusted life years: towards quantitative justification	6
Development of a military-specific mesh-type computational phantom library and its application to internal dosimetry and in-field radiological triage screening	6
Monitoring of surgical staff x-ray exposure in the operating room with DosiBadge	6
Long-term impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster on confidence in giving birth or caring for a child: a stratified analysis by family structure and prefecture	6

Applicability of ‘Toolkit for Safety Assessment’ tool to interventional radiology using probabilistic risk assessment techniques	6
Chernobyl consequences are coming	6
A body-size-dependent series of Chinese adult standing phantoms for radiation dosimetry	6
Evaluation of dose distribution and shielding efficiency in portable intraoral x-ray device	6
Impact of follow-up record grouping on radiation epidemiology studies	6
Impact of shield location on staff and caregiver dose rates for I-131 radiopharmaceutical therapy patients	6
Study on the radiation detriment	5
Radiological risk assessment of outdoor ²²²Rn and ²²⁰Rn around rare earth element and uranium mines from northern Vietnam	5
Optimizing Ca-DTPA/Zn-DTPA therapy for internal decorporation: transitioning from intravenous to oral route with insights on safety and toxicity	5
Radiation exposure, organ and effective dose of CT-guided liver biopsy as a function of lesion depth and size	5
Losing the balance in risk-benefit analysis	5
M-FISH evaluation of chromosome aberrations to examine for historical exposure to ionising radiation due to participation at British nuclear test sites	5
Reconstructed lung doses for the million person study cohort of 26,650 Tennessee Eastman corporation workers employed between 1942 and 1947	5
Reimagining exclusion zones for enabling SMR deployment in India’s nuclear future	5
Book review: Attribution of radiation health effects and inference of radiation risks—considerations for application of the IAEA safety standards, IAEA Safety Reports Series No. 122	5
Book Review: The Environmental Behaviour of Uranium, IAEA Technical Reports Series No. 488	5
Corrigendum: Optimizing whole body computed tomography doses for paediatric trauma patients: a Swiss retrospective analysis (2022 J. Radiol. Prot. 42 021521)	5
Estimation and sensitivity analysis of operational intervention levels for the early phase of radiological emergencies involving radioactive releases	5
Benchmarking point-kernel method against Monte Carlo simulations for an ALARA case study in occupational radiation protection	5
Keeping the ICRP recommendations fit for purpose	5
Special issues and computational techniques: the Bernard Wheatley Award for 2021	5
Corrigendum: Medical management of heavily exposed victims: an experience at the Tokaimura criticality accident (2021 J. Radiol. Prot. 41 S391)	5
Trend of locally produced food avoidance among the guardians with school children in Minamisoma City after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster	5
Factors affecting radiographers’ use of dose-reduction measures	5
Estimation and analysis of S values for ¹³¹I using paediatric mesh type reference computational phantoms	5
On the value and costs of protective actions in a nuclear emergency	5
Studies large and small: the Bernard Wheatley Award for 2022	5
Variations in size-specific effective dose with patient stature and beam width for kV cone beam CT imaging in radiotherapy	5
Residential radon exposure in Astana and Aqsu, Kazakhstan	5
Radiation risks of lymphoma and multiple myeloma incidence in the updated NRRW-3 cohort in the UK: 1955–2011	5
In memory of Leonid Ilyin (1928–2023)	5
Computational dose evaluation on children exposed to natural radioactivity from granitic rocks used as architectural materials	5
Diagnostic reference levels in digital mammography: a systematic review	5
Survey of the publics’ preferences for communication of medical radiation risk ^*	5
Transfer functions for Q_A /Q_B international regulatory limits for the safe transport of radioactive materials	4
Integrated experimental and FLUKA simulation for enhanced radiation safety in open-ceiling radiographic testing facilities	4
Mathematical solutions in internal dose assessment: A comparison of Python-based differential equation solvers in biokinetic modeling	4
Efficacy of radiation attenuating caps in reducing radiation doses received at the cerebral level in interventional physicians: a systematic review	4
What about the workers?	4
Thorium ore dust research applicable to mineral sands industry workers	4
Distribution of radon in large workplaces: an analysis performed on radon levels measured in UK schools	4
Modelling the atmospheric dispersion of radiotracers in small-scale, controlled detonations: validation of dispersion models using field test data	4
Simulation of the distribution of radioactive materials in urban areas—radiation protection perspectives based on local conditions and the Swedish legal framework	4
Artificial intelligence model GPT4 narrowly fails simulated radiological protection exam	4
Reflection on the proposed changes to dose quantities—an industrial perspective	4
Spectrometry of pulsed photon radiation	4
Air kerma reference field with high energy photons using a 15 MeV electron beam from a clinical linear accelerator	4
A simulation system of radiation field and its detection for nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and response training	4
Corrigendum: Analysis of radon mitigation methods: 10-year review (2024 J. Radiol. Prot. 44 031503)	4
Scientific consensus views are useful, but dangerous, without a code of ethics	4
Nonsinusoidal in situ electric field caused by magnetic deactivator device for EAS labels—assessment of field strength inside a detailed anatomical hand model	4
The LNT risk model and radiological protection	4
Approaches to harmonize mortality data sets in three diverse radiation worker cohorts	4
The acute radiation syndrome—need for updated medical guidelines	4
Preventing tissue reactions: a review of the ICRP approach	4
Resilience after a nuclear accident: readiness in using mobile phone applications to measure radiation and health indicators in various groups (SHAMISEN SINGS project)	4
A highly scalable and autonomous spectroscopic radiation mapping system with resilient IoT detector units for dosimetry, safety and security	4
Report from the IRPA task group on awareness of tissue reactions in the eye lens, cardiovascular system and skin	4
Chronic inflammation in a radium dial painter cohort: elevated neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and radiation-induced hearing loss	4
Investigating the impact of new dosimetric quantities recommended by ICRU 95 on the OSLD individual monitoring system at OAP, Thailand	4
RadField3D: a data generator and data format for deep learning in radiation-protection dosimetry for medical applications	4