OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 5. 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
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	74
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	71
Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	70
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	38
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	34
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	33
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	28
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	26
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	26
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	25
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	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
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	23
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	22
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	22
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	22
Trust, but verify	20
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	19
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	19
Mastery versus invention learning: impacts on future learning of simulated procedural skills	18
How does a move towards a coaching approach impact the delivery of written feedback in undergraduate clinical education?	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
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	17
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	17

Go back to the original sources please!	16
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	16
Using theory-informed data science methods to trace the quality of dental student reflections over time	16
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	16
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	15
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	15
Exploring complexities in the reform of assessment practice: a critical realist perspective	15
Accounting for agency in structural competency	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	15
What if we consider research teams as teams?	15
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	14
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	14
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	14
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	14
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	13
What role does basic research have in an applied field?	13
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	13
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	12
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	12
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	12
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	12
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	12
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	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
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	11
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	11
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	11
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	10
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	10
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	10
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	10
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	10
Conducting qualitative research through time: how might theory be useful in longitudinal qualitative research?	9
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	9
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	9
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	9
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	9
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	9
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	9
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	9
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	9
Identifying the experience of geographical narcissism during medical education and training	8
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	8
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	8
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	8
Not too little, not too much: supervisor perceptions of work-readiness of speech-language pathology graduates	8
Is ‘data science’ science?	8
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	8
Assessing the validity of test scores using response process data from an eye-tracking study: a new approach	8

Comparison of two different mindfulness interventions among health care students in Finland: a randomised controlled trial	8
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	8
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	8
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	7
Medical knowledge decline: the role of active usage	7
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	7
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	7
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	7
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	7
Beyond mentorship: the promise and perils of sponsorship in health professions education research	7
Relationships between preadmission variables and academic outcomes for postbaccalaureate students in medical school	6
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	6
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	6
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	6
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	6
Learning clinical skills: an ecological perspective	6
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	6
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	6
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	6
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	6
Creating synergies among education/research, practice, and policy environments to build capacity for the scholar role in occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Canadian context	5
Opening the black box of school-wide student wellbeing programmes: a critical narrative review informed by activity theory	5
Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	5
Inequity is woven into the fabric: a discourse analysis of assessment in pediatric residency training	5
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	5
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	5
How progress evaluations are used in postgraduate education with longitudinal supervisor-trainee relationships: a mixed method study	5
Modeling the social determinants of resilience in health professions students: impact on psychological adjustment	5
The anatomy of ontological ambiguity: exploring moral distress in cadaveric dissection	5
Three doors to the house of perspective-taking and self-reflection: Experiences of guided narrator exploration for healthcare education	5
An evaluation of programmatic assessment across health professions education using contribution analysis	5
Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?	5
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	5
Expanding the advocacy lens: using photo-elicitation to capture patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about health advocacy	5
Comparing the stress response using heart rate variability during real and simulated crises: a pilot study	5
Clinical educators can supervise students without increased stress: a study of interacting factors using insights from complexity theory	5
Basic science knowledge underlies clinical science knowledge and clinical problem solving: evidence from veterinary medicine	5
Implicit and inferred: on the philosophical positions informing assessment science	5
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	5
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	5
Beyond empathy decline: Do the barriers to compassion change across medical training?	5
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	5
Team science in interdisciplinary health professions education research: a multi-institutional case study	5
The impact of prior performance information on subsequent assessment: is there evidence of retaliation in an anonymous multisource assessment system?	5
A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education	5
Simulated learning interventions to improve communication and practice with deaf and hard of hearing patients: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis	5