OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Infectious Diseases is 42. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Discriminant models for the prediction of postponed viral shedding time and disease progression in COVID-19	224
Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in a health care worker population during the early pandemic	132
Empirical cefepime+vancomycin versus ceftazidime+vancomycin versus meropenem+vancomycin in the treatment of healthcare-associated meningitis: results of the multicenter Ephesus study	118
Prior tuberculosis, radiographic lung abnormalities and prevalent diabetes in rural South Africa	101
YELLOW RoUTIne prospective cohort study protocol: insight in the dynamics of bacteria in the elderly bladder	85
Health care consequences of hospitalization with Clostrioides difficile infection: a propensity score matching study	78
Clinical characteristics, drug resistance and death risk factors of Burkholderia cepacia infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients	78
Real-world effectiveness and safety of oral Azvudine versus Paxlovid for COVID-19 in patients with kidney disease: a multicenter, retrospective, cohort study	77
Model correction of diagnostic coding-based RSV incidence for children 0–4 years in the US	76
Prevalence and multidrug resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens in wastewater and drinking water systems from hospital and non-hospital environments in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analy	74
Molecular and serological investigation of hepatitis B virus in patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness at Tha Song Yang hospital, Tak Province, Thailand	71
Atypical rat bite fever associated with knee joint infection in a Chinese patient: a case report	71
Correction to: Information about the natural history of acute infections commonly seen in primary care: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines	68
A longitudinal point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and resistance in tertiary care hospitals in Kerman: results from the national Iranian multicenter point prevalence survey of antimicrobials	66
Impact of water physicochemical properties on the survival of Oncomelania hupensis snails, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum	62
Malaria exposure remodels the plasma proteome of Ghanaian children	59
Effect of degalactosylated bovine glycoprotein formulations MAF and M сapsules on lymphopenia and clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a randomized clinical trial	58
Can HIV self-testing reach first-time testers? A telephone survey among self-test end users in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal	57
Tropheryma whipplei in the stool samples of children with acute diarrhea: a study from Tehran, Iran	56
Safety of a Novel ESAT6-CFP10 skin test compared with tuberculin skin test in a double-blind, randomized, controlled study	55
Stigma of People Affected by Leprosy and its determinants: a cross-sectional study in Sri Lanka	55
Optimizing identification of Lyme disease diagnoses in commercial insurance claims data, United States, 2016–2019	55
Skin infection by Mycobacterium farcinogenes–senegalense group in an immunocompetent patient: a case report	54
Applicability and adaptation of cognitive behavior therapy for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms: a review with insights from ME/CFS	52
Prevalence of diarrheal disease and its determinants among children under five in East Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis	52

Determining target populations for leprosy prophylactic interventions: a hotspot analysis in Indonesia	50
Development of an early prediction model for risk of influenza A and influenza B based on complete blood count examination	49
Correction: Cycle threshold values and SARS-CoV-2 variant associations with breakthrough infections: a retrospective study in Accra, Ghana	49
Inequalities in measles immunization coverage among two-year-olds in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019	48
A challenging case of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae-related pyogenic liver abscess with capsular polysaccharide hyperproduction: a case report	48
Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review	48
Long-term trends of visceral leishmaniasis incidence and mortality in India 1990–2019: an application of joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis	46
Characterizing patients with rare mucormycosis infections using real-world data	45
Bisphosphoglycerate mutase predicts myocardial dysfunction and adverse outcome in sepsis: an observational cohort study	44
The epidemiology of hepatitis b virus infection in Uganda after two decades of vaccination: a meta-analysis and meta-regression	44
A systematic review and meta-analysis of Plasmodium infections and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in relation to disease severity	44
Infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus sinensis diagnosed with next-generation sequencing: a case report and literature review	44
Demographic profile, unplanned status and intraoperative situations increase surgical site infection in cesarean delivery: conclusions from a prospective study in central India	43
Correction: Some virulence genes are associated with antibiotic susceptibility in Enterobacter cloacae complex	43
Epidemiology, resistance profiles, and risk factors of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: experience from a low- and middle-income country	43
Flow cytometry for screening and prioritisation of urine samples: a retrospective comparison with culture	42
Genetic variation of TLR3 gene is associated with the outcome of hepatitis b infection in mauritanian patients: case control study	42