OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Rheumatology is 21. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Current views on lupus in children	142
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	67
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	55
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	53
Editorial introduction	45
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	41
The safety of glucocorticoids in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease: new evidence	39
Urticarial vasculitis	39
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	37
Patient-reported outcomes in systemic sclerosis: insights into quality of life and disease burden	34
Editorial introductions	29
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	29
Optimizing reproductive health management in lupus and Sjogren's syndrome	28
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	27
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	27
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	26
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	26
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	25
Editorial introductions	24
Ribosome dysfunction in osteoarthritis	23
Updates on translational and clinical research in systemic sclerosis	23
VEXAS syndrome: an adult-onset autoinflammatory disorder with underlying somatic mutation	21
The role of PET/CT in disease activity assessment in patients with large vessel vasculitis	21