OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Rural Health is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
National analysis of the Modified Monash Model, population distribution and a socio‐economic index to inform rural health workforce planning	57
Mental health and well‐being impacts of COVID‐19 on rural paramedics, police, community nurses and child protection workers	28
Remote health service vulnerabilities and responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic	27
Co‐designing the InnoWell Platform to deliver the right mental health care first time to regional youth	21
COVID‐19 puts the spotlight on food insecurity in rural and remote Australia	19
COVID‐19, leadership and lessons from physics	19
Position statement: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in rural health journals	17
Utility and outcomes among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous patients requiring domiciliary oxygen therapy in the regional and rural Australian population	17
Expecting the unexpected? Improving rural health in the era of bushfires, novel coronavirus and climate change	17
Destinations of nursing and allied health graduates from two Australian universities: A data linkage study to inform rural placement models	17
Effectiveness of patient activation interventions on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease self‐management outcomes: A systematic review	16
Next steps for drowning prevention in rural and remote Australia: A systematic review of the literature	15
‘Re‐placing’ professional practice	15
Graduate rural work outcomes of the first 8 years of a medical school: What can we learn about student selection and clinical school training pathways?	15
Telehealth—Improving access for rural, regional and remote communities	15
‘We walked side by side through the whole thing’: A mixed‐methods study of key elements of community‐based participatory research partnerships between rural Aboriginal communities and researchers	13
Why do doctors work in rural areas in high‐income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention	13
Services for children with hearing loss in urban and rural Australia	12
Differences in psychosocial distress among rural and metropolitan health care workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Importance of attachment to place in growing a sustainable Australian Rural Health Workforce: A rapid review	11
Profile and rural exposure for nursing and allied health students at two Australian Universities: A retrospective cohort study	11
Interprofessional education in the rural environment to enhance multidisciplinary care in future practice: Breaking down silos in tertiary health education	11
Conducting community rehabilitation review sessions via videoconference: A feasibility study	11
The role of the peer support worker in increasing rural mental health help‐seeking	10
Protecting the future: Fatal incidents on Australian farms involving children (2001‐2019)	9

Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical student placements in rural Queensland: A survey study	9
Retention of General Practitioners in remote areas of Canada and Australia: A meta‐aggregation of qualitative research	9
Systematic review of quantitative studies assessing the relationship between environment and mental health in rural areas	9
Studying nursing at Australian satellite university campuses: A review of teaching, learning and support	9
Assessing cultural safety in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health	9
The psychosocial experiences and supportive care preferences of organ transplant recipients and their carers who live in regional Australia	9
What are the perspectives of speech pathologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists on using telehealth videoconferencing for service delivery to children with developmental delays? A syste	9
Predictors of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in health care workers providing health and rehabilitation services in rural and remote locations: A scoping review	9
What shapes research and research capacity building in rural health services? Context matters	9
Agricultural health and medicine education—Engaging rural professionals to make a difference to farmers' lives	8
Addressing the lack of research in rural communities through building rural health service research: Establishment of a research unit in Colac, a medium rural town	8
Return of the unexpected: Rural workforce recruitment and retention in the era of COVID‐19	8
Allied health service–learning student placements in remote northern Australia during COVID‐19	8
Workplace locations of allied health and nursing graduates who undertook a placement in the Northern Territory of Australia from 2016 to 2019: An observational cohort study	8
Impact of COVID‐19 on rural and remote student placements in Australia: A national study	8
Personalised music for residents with dementia in an Australian rural aged‐care setting	8
Survival of rural telehealth services post‐pandemic in Australia: A call to retain the gains in the ‘new normal’	8
Connecting with social and emotional well‐being in rural Australia: An evaluation of ‘We‐Yarn’, an Aboriginal gatekeeper suicide prevention workshop	7
The evolution of the teledentistry landscape in Australia: A scoping review	7
Why are some drought‐affected farmers less distressed than others? The association between stress, psychological distress, acceptance, behavioural disengagement and neuroticism	7
Rural emergency departments: A systematic review to develop a resource typology relevant to developed countries	7
Navigating the space between co‐design and mahitahi: Building bridges between knowledge systems on behalf of communities	7
Impact of an outpatient telestroke clinic on management of rural stroke patients	7
Community co‐produced mental health initiatives in rural Australia: A scoping review	7
Building a rural workforce through identifying supports for rural, mature‐aged nursing and allied health students: A systematic scoping review	7
Co‐design with aboriginal and torres strait islander communities: A journey	7
What do dental students value about their rural placements—Is clinical experience enough?	7
Rural emergency care facilities may be adapting to their context: A population‐level study of resources and workforce	7
Nursing in a different world: Remote area nursing as a specialist–generalist practice area	7
Aboriginal dental assistants can safely apply fluoride varnish in regional, rural and remote primary schools in New South Wales, Australia	6
Australia's Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program: Preparing for the rural health workforce that Australia needs	6
New‐graduate physiotherapists' perceptions of their preparedness for rural practice	6
Patterns of emergency department use in rural and metropolitan New South Wales from 2012 to 2018	6
‘Biggest factors in having cancer were costs and no entitlement to compensation’—The determinants of out‐of‐pocket costs for cancer care through the lenses of rural and outer metropolitan Western Aust	6
Evaluation of a young adult renal and transplant transition clinic in a regional setting: Supporting young adults and parents' transition to self‐management	6
Rural and remote dental care: Patient characteristics and health care provision	6
Marŋgithirri guŋga’yunarawu ga guŋga’yunyarawu marŋgithinyarawu Learning to connect and connecting to learn: Preparing the rural and remote allied health workforce through a co‐created student‐	6
Psychological impact of neonatal intensive care unit admissions on parents: A regional perspective	6
Individuals of refugee background resettled in regional and rural Australia: A systematic review of mental health research	6
Benefits of and barriers to telehealth for the informal caregivers of elderly individuals in rural areas: A scoping review	6
Comparing rivers to lakes: Implications for drowning prevention	6
Evaluation of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Program 2017‐2019	5
Factors that influence workplace location choices in the different allied health professions: A systematic review	5
Does undertaking rural placements add to place of origin as a predictor of where health graduates work?	5
The impact of introducing Palliative Care Needs Rounds into rural residential aged care: A quasi‐experimental study	5
Job satisfaction of rural medical interns: A qualitative study	5
Developing the geographic classification for health, a rural‐urban classification for New Zealand health research and policy: A research protocol	5
Clinician and consumer perceptions of head and neck cancer services in rural areas: Implications for speech pathology service delivery	5
Multimorbidity, health‐related quality of life and health service use among individuals with mental health problems: Urban‐rural differences in South Australia	5
A systematic review of the preferences of rural and remote youth for mental health service access: Telehealth versus face‐to‐face consultation	5

Promoting positive development: Coaches as trainers in sports‐based resilience programs	5
Understanding and addressing psychological distress experienced by farmers, from the perspective of rural financial counsellors	5
Towards more effective health workforce governance: The case of overseas‐trained doctors	5
Design, development and implementation of the virtual, coordination, access, referral and escalation service in western New South Wales	5
Rural placements during undergraduate training promote future rural work by nurses, midwives and allied health professionals	5
Cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of North Queensland: How well are we doing?	4
Importance of cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of Australia	4
Critically reviewing the policies used by colleges to select doctors for specialty training: A kink in the rural pathway	4
Starting from scratch: Developing and sustaining a rural research team lessons from a nutrition and dietetics case study	4
Optimising medical retrieval processes and outcomes in remote areas in high‐income countries: A scoping review	4
Rural pharmacists and stakeholders perspectives of expanded pharmacy practice: A descriptive study	4
Geographical distribution of 3 allied health professions in South Australia: A summary of access and disadvantage	4
Workforce supply of pharmacists in Queensland communities from James Cook University Pharmacy Graduates	4
Factors associated with medical students’ interest in remote and very remote practice in Australia: A national study	4
Decision‐making capacity assessment for confused patients in a regional hospital: A before and after study	4
Rural employment: A get‐go for recent nursing and allied health graduates?	4
How might access to postgraduate medical education in regional and rural locations be best improved? A scoping review	4
Group clinical supervision for allied health professionals	4
COVID‐19 and mental health and well‐being in rural Australia	4
Guide for community leaders to meet the challenges of personal preparation in the event of a disaster	4
Aged care in rural Australia	4
Intuitive eating is positively associated with indicators of physical and mental health among rural Australian adults	4
‘Empowering clinicians in smaller sites’: A qualitative study of clinician's experiences with a rural Virtual Paediatric Feeding Clinic	4
‘I can't go, I can't afford it’: Financial concern amongst health students undertaking rural and remote placements during COVID‐19	4
Farm‐related injury deaths in Australia (2001–20)	4
Rethinking access for minority segments in rural health: An LGBTQI+ perspective	4
Evaluation of a culturally sensitive social and emotional well‐being program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders	4
Road traffic fatalities in rural and remote Australia from 2006 to 2017: The need for targeted action	4
Strength of cross‐sector collaborations in co‐designing an extended rural and remote nursing placement innovation: Focusing on student learning in preference to student churning	4
Reviewing papers for Australian Journal of Rural Health—The benefits and the mechanics	3
Local evaluation of the Tasmanian component of the National Suicide Prevention Trial—Preliminary learnings	3
Barriers and enablers to structured care delivery in Australian rural primary care	3
Worse than a low‐income country: Broadband access in rural and remote Australia	3
Characteristics of nursing and allied health student placements in the Northern Territory over time (2017‐2019) and placement satisfaction	3
Models of remote professional supervision for psychologists in rural and remote locations: A systematic review	3
Community awareness of speech pathology: A regional perspective	3
Rural health is a crisis that can be solved, here and now	3
Geographic variation in health system performance in rural areas of New South Wales, Australia	3
Social prescribing: A new paradigm with additional benefits in rural Australia	3
Prevention pays: COVID‐19 tells us it's time for a Sovereign Health Fund for disease prevention	3
Collaborative care: Primary health workforce and service delivery in Western New South Wales—A case study	3
Importance of research higher degree training availability in rural and remote regions	3
Co‐design of a nurse‐led model of care to increase access to medical abortion and contraception in rural and regional general practice: A protocol	3
Preferences and pathways of the next generation of rural doctors	3
Scoping review: Language assessment practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia and guidelines for clinical practice	3
Effects of employing primary care doctors in hospital to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of rural patients: A systematic scoping review	3
Effects of a family dyadic partnership program for people with hypertension in a rural community: A pilot randomised controlled trial	3
Co‐designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, elders and cultural healers	3
‘It all comes back to community!’: A qualitative study of Aboriginal Elders promoting cultural well‐being	3
Sustaining rural interprofessional initiatives in the current landscape: A short report on interprofessional education in rural health services in Queensland	3
Use of a quality improvement strategy to introduce co‐design of the mental health discharge plan in rural and remote New South Wales	3
Low back pain presentations to rural, regional, and metropolitan emergency departments	3
Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island	3
Responding to rural allied health workforce challenges in the public health system: Evaluation of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway pilot in western New South Wales	3
Rural disability workforce perspective on effective inter‐disciplinary training—A qualitative pilot study	3
Effect of depression awareness and management training on the attitudes of rural primary health care workers	3
Selection, training and employment to encourage early‐career doctors to pursue a rural postgraduate training pathway	3
Increasing interest of students from under‐represented groups in medicine—A systematised review	3
How rural is rural? The relationship between rural background of medical students and their career location intentions	3
Understanding the elements of a quality rural/remote interprofessional education activity: A rough guide	3
Rapid multi‐professional training for COVID‐19 in rural hospitals	3
Perspectives of supervisors of allied health and nursing students undertaking work‐integrated learning placements in the Northern Territory: The view from here	3
Co‐designing community‐focused rural placements for collaborative practice	3
Predictors of dementia knowledge in a rural general public sample	3
From co‐design to co‐production: Approaches, enablers, and constraints in developing a public health, capacity‐building solution	3
Evaluation of the Spring Seedling Project—Zhaotong Program: A study of a novel continuing medical education program for rural doctors in China	3
Delivering introductory physiotherapy clinical placements incorporating simulated learning experiences in rural settings	3
Investigating first‐year graduate paramedics’ reason for current work location: A cross‐sectional, data linkage study	3
Five years on: Influences on early career health professionals from a rural interprofessional pre‐registration immersion program	3
Building rural health research and scholarship – NHMRC Open access revisions and impact on rural health outcomes	3
Perceptions, concerns and reported behaviours in response to the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic across metropolitan, regional, rural and remote Australian communities	3
Revised model for evaluating visiting health care services in rural and remote settings	3