OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 6. 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
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	84
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	80
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	74
Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	52
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	42
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	40
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	39
Seeing the invisible: extracurricular learning processes and learning outcome as experienced by student volunteers accompanying persons in a socially vulnerable situation to healthcare appointments—an	33
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	32
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	32
Mastery versus invention learning: impacts on future learning of simulated procedural skills	27
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	27
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	24
Trust, but verify	24
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	24
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	24
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	23
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	23
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	21
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	20
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	20
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	19
Go back to the original sources please!	19
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	19
Accounting for agency in structural competency	18

From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	18
A scoping review of the questionnaires used for the assessment of the perception of undergraduate students of the learning environment in healthcare professions education programs	17
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	17
What if we consider research teams as teams?	16
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	15
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	15
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	15
Giving effective feedback on writing	15
Game design elements of serious games in the education of medical and healthcare professions: a mixed-methods systematic review of underlying theories and teaching effectiveness	14
Designing a course for healthcare professionals: examining readiness for adopting emerging technologies into education and practice	14
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	14
What role does basic research have in an applied field?	14
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	14
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	13
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	13
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	13
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	12
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	12
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	12
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	12
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	12
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	12
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	12
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	12
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	12
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	12
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	12
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	11
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	11
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	11
Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: an international EPA-framed, modified Delphi study	11
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	11
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	10
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	10
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	10
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	10
Inclusion in an exclusive world? A two-country comparison of widening participation in medicine	10
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	10
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	10
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	9
Identifying the experience of geographical narcissism during medical education and training	9
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	9
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	9
Assessing the validity of test scores using response process data from an eye-tracking study: a new approach	9
Is ‘data science’ science?	9
Comparison of two different mindfulness interventions among health care students in Finland: a randomised controlled trial	9
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	9
Beyond mentorship: the promise and perils of sponsorship in health professions education research	8
Medical knowledge decline: the role of active usage	8
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	8

“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	8
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	8
Individual differences and self-regulatory factors are credible determinants of physiotherapy student performance on clinical placement: Insights from a measurement burst design study	8
Relationships between preadmission variables and academic outcomes for postbaccalaureate students in medical school	8
Can AI grade like a professor? comparing artificial intelligence and faculty scoring of medical student short-answer clinical reasoning exams	8
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	8
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	8
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	8
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	7
Commentary on Barradell and Bell (2021)—applying a critical lens to the role of students as partners in health professions education: challenges, risks, and potential	7
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	7
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	7
Inequity is woven into the fabric: a discourse analysis of assessment in pediatric residency training	7
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	7
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	7
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	7
Fostering interprofessional identity formation to support interprofessional collaboration – Identifying guidelines for educational design	7
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	7
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	7
Learning clinical skills: an ecological perspective	7
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	7
Expanding the advocacy lens: using photo-elicitation to capture patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about health advocacy	7
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	6
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	6
Opening the black box of school-wide student wellbeing programmes: a critical narrative review informed by activity theory	6
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	6
Towards a praxis of metacognitive reflection in medical education: a framework of inquiry, adaptive action, and pattern logic	6
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	6
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	6