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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	130
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	66
Editorial introduction	55
Urticarial vasculitis	50
Current views on lupus in children	44
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	38
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	37
The safety of glucocorticoids in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease: new evidence	36
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	34
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	32
Patient-reported outcomes in systemic sclerosis: insights into quality of life and disease burden	32
Editorial introductions	28
Optimizing reproductive health management in lupus and Sjogren's syndrome	27
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	26
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	26
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	25
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	25
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	25
Editorial introductions	24
Ribosome dysfunction in osteoarthritis	23
Updates on translational and clinical research in systemic sclerosis	22
VEXAS syndrome: an adult-onset autoinflammatory disorder with underlying somatic mutation	22