OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Disability and Rehabilitation is 26. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Body weight supported gait training on walking, quality of life and harm in adults with stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis	66
Exploring current practices and opportunities to address cognitive changes post-stroke: a qualitative study of health professionals	52
Correction	51
Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity study of the Turkish version of the “Spinal Cord Injury-Falls Concern Scale”	51
Efficacy of electrical stimulation in comparison to active training of pelvic floor muscles on stress urinary incontinence symptoms in women: a systematic review with meta-analysis	48
The effects of power exercises on body structure and function, activity and participation in children with cerebral palsy: an ICF-based systematic review	45
Moving from the clinic to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic – a pilot clinical trial comparing in-clinic rehabilitation versus telerehabilitation for persisting symptoms following a mild Traumat	40
Claimant and clinician perspectives on sources of claimant distress in interactions with Australian compensation schemes: a qualitative study	39
Recovery, coping, and service access after major trauma in regional, rural, and remote Tasmania, Australia	38
Patient and physical therapists’ views on physical rehabilitation exercise in the early phase after total hip arthroplasty: a qualitative interview study	35
Long-term impact of self-mobilization via telerehabilitation vs. manual therapy and home exercise on pain and function in cervical degenerative disease	34
Hearing disability and employment: a population-based analysis using the 2017 Canadian survey on disability	34
The COMbined Physical and somatoSEnsory (COMPoSE) training intervention to improve upper limb recovery after stroke: a single-case experimental study	34
The Dizziness Handicap Inventory and sickness absence: a cross-sectional study	31
Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and reliability of the Dutch version of the Lymphedema Symptom Intensity and Distress Survey-Head and Neck version 2.0 (LSIDS-H&N v2.0) in head and neck cancer	31
Social representations of gender and their influence in Supported Employment: employment specialists’ experiences in Sweden	30
A pilot implementation study of a chronic pain core outcome set and decision tree for children and young people with cerebral palsy	30
Empowerment through choice: the interplay of choice and control after spinal cord or brain injury	30
Assessing caregiving experience in COPD: content validity of the Zarit Burden Interview in Canadian and Portuguese caregivers	29
Postnatal depressive symptoms in mothers of infants at high risk of cerebral palsy: the role of delayed infant communicative development	29
Integrative medicine for hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS): a feasibility study	28
Intervention with the CO-OP Approach leads to a transfer effect over time to untrained goals for children with cerebral palsy or spina bifida	28
Transcranial direct current stimulation in the management of pain in oncology patients. A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression of randomized controlled trials	27
What are the views of musculoskeletal physiotherapists and patients on person-centred practice? A systematic review of qualitative studies	26
Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the meaningful use of speech scale (Arabic MUSS)	26

Stress and social isolation, and its relationship to cardiovascular risk in young adults with intellectual disability	26
The lived experience of physical exertion for persons with advanced multiple sclerosis: making connections with the world	26
Identifying and linking prosthetic outcomes to the ICF framework: a step to inform the benefits measured in prosthetic health economic evaluations	26
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the stroke upper limb capacity scale	26