OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Medical Screening is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Aptima HPV E6/E7 mRNA and cytology cross-sectional performance as primary screening tests for detection of high-grade cervical lesions in HIV positive and negative women in South Africa	40
“DNA tests for every baby on the NHS”	35
Validation of a monoclonal unconjugated estriol antibody for use in prenatal maternal serum screening	32
Acceptability of alternative technologies compared with faecal immunochemical test and/or colonoscopy in colorectal cancer screening: A systematic review	24
An economic scenario analysis of implementing artificial intelligence in BreastScreen Norway–Impact on radiologist person-years, costs and effects	22
Simulated arbitration of discordance between radiologists and artificial intelligence interpretation of breast cancer screening mammograms	22
When primary prevention replaces screening	20
Risk stratification in medical screening	18
Carrier rate of thalassemia among 25,910 high school students in Shaoguan area, China	16
Comparing screening based on the NHS Health Check and Polypill Prevention Programmes in the primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes	15
Timely adherence to follow-up after high-risk lung cancer screenings	15
Interval cancers in a national colorectal screening programme based on faecal immunochemical testing: Implications for faecal haemoglobin concentration threshold and sex inequality	14
Percentage mammographic density or absolute breast density for risk stratification in breast screening: Possible implications for socioeconomic health disparity	13
Applying the healthcare failure mode and effects analysis approach to improve the quality of an organised colorectal cancer screening programme	12
The Risk-Screening Converter: Use of multiple risk factors	11
Response to the letter: “Ethics of screening promotion: A slippery slope to forced marketing?”	11
Systematic review and meta-analysis of colon capsule endoscopy accuracy for colorectal cancer screening. An alternative during the Covid-19 pandemic?	11
Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer screening: A 6-year cohort study	10
Screening asymptomatic men for prostate cancer: A comparison of international guidelines on prostate-specific antigen testing	10
Implementation of a centralized HPV-based cervical cancer screening programme in Tuscany: First round results and comparison with the foregoing Pap-based screening programme	10
Screen-detected ductal carcinoma in situ, 2008–2020: An observational study	8
The Risk-Screening Converter	8
Evaluation of benefits and harms of adaptive screening schedules for lung cancer: A microsimulation study	8
Public cervical cancer screening recommendations from US cancer centers: Assessing adherence to national guidelines	8
Cancer screening programs in Japan: Progress and challenges	7

Folic acid and neural tube defects: Discovery, debate and the need for policy change	7
Cancer screening after the age of 75: Nationwide population-based trends	7
“It's cancer screening after all”. Barriers to cervical and colorectal cancer screening and attitudes to promotion of self-sampling kits upon attendance for breast cancer screening	6
Effects of health education on screening rate of first-degree relatives of cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Factors associated with women's supplemental screening intentions following dense breast notification in an online randomised experimental study	6
Trends in colorectal cancer screening in the United States, 2012 to 2020	5
Differential impact of test performance characteristics on burden-to-benefit tradeoffs for blood-based colorectal cancer screening: A microsimulation analysis	5
Association between time to colonoscopy after positive fecal testing and colorectal cancer outcomes in Alberta, Canada	5
Age at breast cancer screening in women with intellectual disability	5
Interval cancer after two rounds of a Swedish population-based screening program using gender-specific cut-off levels in fecal immunochemical test	5
Including the method of detection for breast cancer in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database is long overdue	4
Comments on “Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer screening” by Huang et al. https://doi.org/10.1177/09691413251338456	4
Skin cancer screening recommendations by U.S. cancer centers: Inconsistency with national guidelines	4
Attitudes towards being offered a choice of self-sampling or clinician sampling for cervical screening: A cross-sectional survey of women taking part in a clinical validation of HPV self-collection de	4
Quality indicators for cervical screening in Sweden	4
Feasibility of population-based screening of sickle cell disease through the primary health care system in tribal areas of India	4
The Consensus Project: Participation in cervical cancer screening by the first cohorts of girls offered HPV vaccination at age 15–16 years in Italy	3
Beneficial effect of repeated participation in breast cancer screening upon survival	3
Door-to-door hepatitis C screening in Georgia: An innovative model to increase testing and linkage to care	3
Participation and cancer detection after reminders versus ordinary invitations in BreastScreen Norway	3
Prevalence of colorectal cancer and breast cancer screening according to history of diabetes in 2010–2019	3
Is GP practice bowel, breast and cervical cancer screening coverage correlated with GP practice list inflation?	3
Age-specific differences in tumour characteristics between screen-detected and non-screen-detected breast cancers in women aged 40–74 at diagnosis in Sweden from 2008 to 2017	3
Why are most colorectal cancers diagnosed outside of screening? A retrospective analysis of data from the English bowel screening programme	3
Colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical test: Patterns of participation	3
The impact on clinical outcomes and healthcare resources from discontinuing colonoscopy surveillance subsequent to low-risk adenoma removal: A simulation study using the OncoSim-Colorectal model	3
Risk or chance	3
Response to Editorial: ‘Risk or chance’	3
Factors associated with private or public breast cancer screening attendance in Queensland, Australia: A retrospective cross-sectional study	2
Is it feasible to enhance quality assurance of cervical cancer screening in Latin America? A regional expert consensus	2
The new NHS England ‘ping and book’ screening service is set to exclude thousands of women	2
Colonoscopy may be weak link in organised colorectal cancer screening programme with faecal immunochemical test	2
Long-term colorectal cancer incidence in a post-endoscopic screening cohort, accounting for surveillance, by baseline polyp group, anatomic subsite, and sex	2
Thanks to reviewers	2
Awareness and knowledge about HPV and primary HPV screening among women in Great Britain: An online population-based survey	2
Improving access to cervical cancer screening: The impact of a Saturday pap smear clinic	2
Anxiety and disease awareness in individuals with heredity for abdominal aortic aneurysm	2
Multi-marker risk-based screening for prostate cancer	2
COVID-19 disruption to cervical cancer screening in England	2
Combining genetic and non-genetic risk factors to predict disease, and reporting the screening performance of risk models	2
Lymphoproliferative disease detected by breast cancer screening	2
The polypill in the primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes: Overcoming barriers to implementation	2
Primary care outreach and decision counseling for lung cancer screening	2
The recalibration and redevelopment of a model to calculate patients’ probability of completing a colonoscopy following an abnormal fecal test	2
‘Risk or chance’: Authors’ response	2
Improved use of faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin in the Scottish bowel screening programme	2
Thanks to reviewers	2
Primary human papillomavirus testing by clinician- versus self-collection: Awareness and acceptance among cervical cancer screening-eligible women	2
Assessment of the value of polygenic risk scores in the prevention of disease	2
Overcoming barriers to lung cancer screening using a systemwide approach with additional focus on the non-screened	2

The impact of cumulative colorectal cancer screening delays: A simulation study	2
Evaluation of the Call for a Kit intervention to increase bowel cancer screening uptake in Lancashire, England	1
Advanced disease at presentation for Canadian patients with colorectal cancer despite provincial screening programs: A call to action	1
Ethics of screening promotion: A slippery slope to forced marketing?	1
Newborn screening for abnormal haemoglobins in Jamaica: Practical issues in an island programme	1
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer screening and diagnosis rates: A rapid review and meta-analysis	1
The impact of age at initial HPV vaccination on cervical cancer screening participation in a nationally representative cohort of women in the United States	1
Risk of cancer versus risk of cancer diagnosis? Accounting for diagnostic bias in predictions of breast cancer risk by race and ethnicity	1
Cost-effectiveness of low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening in India: A Markov modelling study	1
Examining the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on population-based breast cancer screening in Ireland	1
Racial and ethnic disparities in prostate cancer screening following the 2018 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement	1
Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in colorectal cancer screening in a large organization with universal insurance before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	1
Overview of organisational methods of primary cervical lesion screening programmes that use human papillomavirus testing	1
Investigating the acceptability of cervical screening, using conventional clinician-taken cervical samples or urine self-sampling, at 6 weeks postnatal: A cross-sectional questionnaire	1
Examining breast cancer screening recommendations in Canada: The projected resource impact of screening among women aged 40–49	1
Retrospective analysis of clinician and patient factors associated with unsatisfactory Pap tests	1
Impact of frailty and comorbidity on initial response to lung cancer screening invitation and low-dose CT screening uptake: Findings from the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial	1
Re-attendance to mammographic screening after a false positive screening result	1
Ripple effect of temporary self-sampling HPV test on screening uptake in the next round: A secondary analysis of the ACCESS randomized controlled trial	1
All-cause mortality in multi-cancer screening trials	1
Clinical performance and utility: A microsimulation model to inform the design of screening trials for a multi-cancer early detection test	1
On the role and limitations of ChatGPT-based models in breast cancer detection with mammography	1
Postscript to ‘Folic acid and neural tube defects: Discovery, debate and the need for policy change’	1
Newborn screening for biliary atresia using direct bilirubin: An implementation science study	1
A retrospective cohort study investigating factors affecting recommendation for continued low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening in the national lung cancer screening trial	1
Recovery of the breast screening programme following pandemic-related delays: Should we focus on round length or uptake?	1
Availability of data for cost-effectiveness comparison of child vision and hearing screening programmes	1
Factors affecting young women's participation in organized cervical cancer screening and non-organized testing – A population-based survey study	1
Optimising recruitment to a lung cancer screening trial: A comparison of general practitioner and community-based recruitment	1
Variation in fecal hemoglobin concentrations: Cross-sectional analysis of a screening trial and a screening program in Sweden	1
Guidance on terminology	1
Long-term cause of death patterns and mode of breast cancer detection in The Netherlands, 2004−2019	1
Couple screening for autosomal recessive inherited diseases: Current and historical perspectives	1
Participation in the national cervical screening programme among women from New South Wales, Australia, by place of birth and time since immigration: A data linkage analysis using the 45 and up study	1
How follow-up rates in cervical cancer screening depend on organizational factors: A comparison of two population-based organized screening programmes	1
The randomized trial of mammography screening that was not—A cautionary tale	1