OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sleep Medicine is 44. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The enemy who sealed the world: effects quarantine due to the COVID-19 on sleep quality, anxiety, and psychological distress in the Italian population	476
Efficacy of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	321
COVID-19, anxiety, sleep disturbances and suicide	233
Sleep problems among Chinese adolescents and young adults during the coronavirus-2019 pandemic	197
Insomnia, anxiety, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international collaborative study	180
The immediate impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on subjective sleep status	156
Sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: not one size fits all	128
Obstructive sleep apnea, depression and cognitive impairment	124
The evaluation of sleep disturbances for Chinese frontline medical workers under the outbreak of COVID-19	116
Sleep health early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States: integrating longitudinal, cross-sectional, and retrospective recall data	114
Changes in sleep patterns and disturbances in children and adolescents in Italy during the Covid-19 outbreak	111
Sleep quality in times of Covid-19 pandemic	111
The acute effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on insomnia and psychological symptoms	103
Perceived stress and sleep quality among the non-diseased general public in China during the 2019 coronavirus disease: a moderated mediation model	103
Sleep deprivation and its association with diseases- a review	99
Changes in sleep timing and subjective sleep quality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy and Belgium: age, gender and working status as modulating factors	90
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	89
Sleep quality and mental health in the context of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Morocco	88
Sleep disorders and COVID-19	85
A randomized controlled trial of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in pregnant women	81
School closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic – Impact on children's sleep	79
Sleep disturbances, fear, and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 shut down phase in Germany: relation to infection rates, deaths, and German stock index DAX	72
The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment	68
The association between sleep quality and quality of life: a population-based study	68
Validation of sleep stage classification using non-contact radar technology and machine learning (Somnofy®)	67

Sleep characteristics in health workers exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic	65
The associations of insomnia symptoms and chronotype with daytime sleepiness, mood symptoms and suicide risk in adolescents	62
Psychological correlates of poor sleep quality among U.S. young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	62
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and outcomes from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	59
Prevalence of sleep disturbances during COVID-19 outbreak in an urban Chinese population: a cross-sectional study	57
Normal sleep development in infants: findings from two large birth cohorts	57
Relationships between REM and NREM in the NREM-REM sleep cycle: a review on competing concepts	56
International study of the prevalence and factors associated with insomnia in the general population	53
Self-reported sleep quality is associated with gut microbiome composition in young, healthy individuals: a pilot study	52
The endless quarantine: the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on healthcare workers after three months of mandatory social isolation in Argentina	51
Associations of sleep duration and quality with incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: a prospective cohort study of 407,500 UK biobank participants	51
Pandemic dreams: quantitative and qualitative features of the oneiric activity during the lockdown due to COVID-19 in Italy	50
Delirium and sleep disturbances in COVID–19: a possible role for melatonin in hospitalized patients?	49
Sleep behaviours and multimorbidity occurrence in middle-aged and older adults: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)	47
Gut microbiota composition in children with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: a pilot study	46
Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in subjects with sleep disorders	46
Circadian disturbances, sleep difficulties and the COVID-19 pandemic	45
The importance of sleep and physical activity on well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: reunion island as a case study	44
COVID-19 and sleep patterns in adolescents and young adults	44
Altered resting-state thalamo-occipital functional connectivity is associated with cognition in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder	44