OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Infectious Diseases is 41. 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
Discriminant models for the prediction of postponed viral shedding time and disease progression in COVID-19	218
Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in a health care worker population during the early pandemic	122
State transitions across the Strep A disease spectrum: scoping review and evidence gaps	114
Patterns of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in different anatomical sites among Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) users in Brazil	100
Corticosteroid treatment in severe patients with SARS-CoV-2 and chronic HBV co-infection: a retrospective multicenter study	81
Prognostic significance of chronic kidney disease and impaired renal function in Japanese patients with COVID-19	76
Empirical cefepime+vancomycin versus ceftazidime+vancomycin versus meropenem+vancomycin in the treatment of healthcare-associated meningitis: results of the multicenter Ephesus study	75
Prevalence of blaOXA-48 and other carbapenemase encoding genes among carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in Egypt	71
Prior tuberculosis, radiographic lung abnormalities and prevalent diabetes in rural South Africa	70
YELLOW RoUTIne prospective cohort study protocol: insight in the dynamics of bacteria in the elderly bladder	69
Exploring antibiotic-induced persister formation and bacterial persistence genes in clinical isolates from Burkina Faso	66
Clinical characteristics, drug resistance and death risk factors of Burkholderia cepacia infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients	65
Health care consequences of hospitalization with Clostrioides difficile infection: a propensity score matching study	65
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study	64
Real-world effectiveness and safety of oral Azvudine versus Paxlovid for COVID-19 in patients with kidney disease: a multicenter, retrospective, cohort study	61
Incidence of serious respiratory tract infections and associated characteristics in a population exposed to immunosuppressive therapies: a register-based population study	57
Model correction of diagnostic coding-based RSV incidence for children 0–4 years in the US	55
Sciatica caused by spinal epidural abscess as the initial clinical presentation of colon cancer: a rare case report and review of literature	55
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	54
Atypical presentation of PJP: hypercalcemia and kidney injury in an allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient	54
A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial of sterile filtered human amniotic fluid for treatment of COVID-19	54
Atypical rat bite fever associated with knee joint infection in a Chinese patient: a case report	53
Molecular and serological investigation of hepatitis B virus in patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness at Tha Song Yang hospital, Tak Province, Thailand	52
Analysis of unsuccessful tests and the effect of prolonged clinical sample preprocessing in the GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay	51
Association between contextual factors and vaccine coverage against human papilomavirus in adolescents in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: global spatial regressions	49

Chronic disseminated candidiasis in a patient with acute leukemia - an illustrative case and brief review for clinicians	49
Correction to: Information about the natural history of acute infections commonly seen in primary care: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines	49
Correction to: Systematic review of invasive meningococcal disease epidemiology in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region	48
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	47
Impact of water physicochemical properties on the survival of Oncomelania hupensis snails, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum	46
The PEP++ study protocol: a cluster-randomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of an enhanced regimen of post-exposure prophylaxis for close contacts of persons affected by leprosy to prevent di	45
Inequalities in measles immunization coverage among two-year-olds in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019	45
Comparing artificial neural network training algorithms to predict length of stay in hospitalized patients with COVID-19	44
Effect of degalactosylated bovine glycoprotein formulations MAF and M сapsules on lymphopenia and clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a randomized clinical trial	44
Malaria exposure remodels the plasma proteome of Ghanaian children	44
Musculoskeletal actinomycosis in children: a case report	43
Can HIV self-testing reach first-time testers? A telephone survey among self-test end users in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal	42
Did you hear about HIV self-testing? HIV self-testing awareness after community-based HIVST distribution in rural Zimbabwe	42
Tropheryma whipplei in the stool samples of children with acute diarrhea: a study from Tehran, Iran	42
C-reactive protein velocity discriminates between acute viral and bacterial infections in patients who present with relatively low CRP concentrations	41
Long-term trends of visceral leishmaniasis incidence and mortality in India 1990–2019: an application of joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis	41