OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Respiratory Medicine 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Nasal effects of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children with allergic rhinitis	121
Cell free ACE2 RNA: A potential biomarker of COVID-19 severity	81
Editorial Board	66
End-tidal carbon dioxide, a point-of-care biomarker to assess severity in acute asthma: A systematic review	64
The clinical features of asthma exacerbations in early-onset and eosinophilic late-onset asthma may differ significantly	56
Smoking and the risk of sarcoidosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Effect of chronic kidney disease on survival in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	55
Longitudinal changes in lung function following post-9/11 military deployment in symptomatic veterans	52
Association of computed tomography-derived pectoralis muscle area and density with disease severity and respiratory symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A case-control stud	50
Variability in chest radiology interpretation between thoracic and non-thoracic radiologists: Implications for pulmonary fibrosis care	48
Effect of antifibrotic therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis undergoing lung transplant in the peri and post-operative period	46
Home-based intravenous treatment with reslizumab for severe asthma in the Netherlands – An evaluation	45
Impact of wearing a surgical facemask during exercise on dyspnea in patients with chronic pulmonary infections: A randomized crossover study	43
Prevalence, incidence, and clinical features of cardiac involvement in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis	43
A historical cohort study on predictors for successful weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation and up to 3-year survival follow-up in a rehabilitation center	43
Anatomical and histopathological approaches to asthma phenotyping	43
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in solid organ transplant recipients	42
Prevalence and significance of pulmonary hypertension among hospitalized patients with left heart disease	41
The effect of pleural drainage on pulse oximetry in a post-operative thoracic surgery population	41
Inhalers or nebulisation of salbutamol in childhood asthma exacerbations in emergency departments	41
Long-term air pollution exposure and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A UK-wide cohort study	40
Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: Clinical, radiological and histopathological features	40
The impact of demographic disparities in the presentation of sarcoidosis: A multicenter prospective study	38
Risk factors for hospitalization in subspecialty patients with severe persistent asthma	38
Neuromodulation of dyspnea – A literature review	37

COPD is a risk factor for COVID-19, but does not confer increased severity of the disease	36
Chest imaging classification in Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia is associated with its clinical features and outcomes	36
High-flow nasal cannula may prolong the length of hospital stay in patients with hypercapnic acute COPD exacerbation	36
High-intensity interval training improves the outcomes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	36
Factors associated with short- and medium-term mortality after hospitalization for COPD exacerbation	34
New updates on hepatopulmonary syndrome: A comprehensive review	34
Editorial Board	34
Integral mediastinal staging in patients with NON-SMALL cell lung cancer and risk factors for occult N2 disease	34
Global prevalence of fatigue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Interactions between microbiome and underlying mechanisms in asthma	33