OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is 36. 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
Prevalence of neurotoxicity symptoms among postpartum women on isoniazid preventive therapy and efavirenz-based treatment for HIV: an exploratory objective of the IMPAACT P1078 randomized trial	138
Antepartum risk factors and outcomes of massive transfusion for elective cesarean section: a nationwide retrospective cohort study	84
Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be referred to an obstetrician during pregnancy and birth: results from a cohort study	80
Escherichia coli induced matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity and type IV collagen degradation is regulated by progesterone in human maternal decidual	76
Effect of antenatal use of high energy nutritional supplements on cardio metabolic risk markers in underweight primi gravidas; a randomized controlled trial	66
Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) associated with pregnancy and SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report	60
Rare spontaneous monochorionic dizygotic twins: a case report and a systematic review	60
Non-adherence to WHO’s recommended 8-contact model: geospatial analysis of the 2017 Maternal Health Survey	57
Revisiting fertility regulation and family ties in Tunisia	56
Association of epidural analgesia during labor and early postpartum urinary incontinence among women delivered vaginally: a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study	54
Measurement of maternal morbidity during postpartum with the WHO-WOICE tools in Morocco	53
Quality newborn care in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea: measuring early newborn care practices and identifying opportunities for improvement	53
Impact of adenomyosis on perinatal outcomes: a large cohort study (JSOG database)	50
The indicators for early blood transfusion in patients with placental abruption with intrauterine fetal death: a retrospective review	50
Exploring the implementation of an educational film within antenatal care to reduce the risk of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy: A qualitative study	50
Predicting the effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine uptake by pregnant women on birth weight using a generalized ordered partial proportional odds model	49
The degree of risk factor and accumulation effect for large niche in individuals after cesarean section	48
Health of singleton neonates in Switzerland through time and crises: a cross-sectional study at the population level, 2007-2022	47
The association between dietary, physical activity and the DNA methylation of PPARGC1A, HLA-DQA1 and ADCY3 in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a nest case-control study	46
Short stature and vaginal dinoprostone as independent predictors of composite maternal-newborn adverse outcomes in induction of labor after one previous cesarean: a retrospective cohort study	42
Marginal cord insertion in the first trimester is associated with furcate cord insertion	42
Ghanaian women’s experiences of unsuccessful in-vitro fertilisation treatment, unravelling their meanings: a Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study	41
Predicting intraoperative hemorrhage during curettage treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy using free-breathing GRASP DCE-MRI	41
The yield of SNP microarray analysis for fetal ultrasound cardiac abnormalities	41
How to estimate the probability of a live birth after one or more complete IVF cycles? the development of a novel model in a single-center	40

Validating the use of the revised childbirth experience questionnaire in Hong Kong	40
Life after medicalised conception: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study exploring the experiences of pregnancy and transition to parenthood	40
Factors associated with the intention of pregnant women to give birth with epidural analgesia: a cross-sectional study	40
Development and validation of a machine learning model for predicting intrapartum fever using pre-labor analgesia clinical indicators: a multicenter retrospective study	39
Uptake of antepartum care services in a matrilineal-matrilocal society: a study of Garo indigenous women in Bangladesh	39
Antibiotic susceptibility and risk factors for listeriosis in women with spontaneous abortion in Ugandan tertiary hospitals: a cross-sectional study	38
Prenatal diagnosis of a severe form of frontonasal dysplasia with severe limb anomalies, hydrocephaly, a hypoplastic corpus callosum, and a ventricular septal defect using 3D ultrasound: a case report	37
Examining provider practice-level disparities in delivery outcomes among patients with a history of Cesarean Delivery	36
Alternative approach to monitoring labor: purple line	36
Late antenatal care booking and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: evidence from 2019 performance monitoring for action data analysis	36
Birth satisfaction in different social contexts and the challenges of ensuring measurement validity	36
Association between dietary intakes and pregnancy complications: a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis	36