OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Rheumatology is 22. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Urticarial vasculitis	112
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	66
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	59
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	54
Editorial introduction	51
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	44
Current views on lupus in children	43
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	34
Editorial introductions	32
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	31
The safety of glucocorticoids in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease: new evidence	30
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	30
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	30
Optimizing reproductive health management in lupus and Sjogren's syndrome	30
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	28
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	26
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	25
Updates on translational and clinical research in systemic sclerosis	24
VEXAS syndrome: an adult-onset autoinflammatory disorder with underlying somatic mutation	24
The role of PET/CT in disease activity assessment in patients with large vessel vasculitis	24
Editorial introductions	24
Ribosome dysfunction in osteoarthritis	23
Update on gout management: what is old and what is new	22