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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	136
Antepartum risk factors and outcomes of massive transfusion for elective cesarean section: a nationwide retrospective cohort study	92
Investigating the association between metabolic syndrome conditions and perinatal mental illness: a national administrative claims study	82
Clinical relevance of SARS-CoV-2 infection in late pregnancy	75
“‘Oh gosh, why go?’ cause they are going to look at me and not hire”: intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting	68
Escherichia coli induced matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity and type IV collagen degradation is regulated by progesterone in human maternal decidual	64
Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be referred to an obstetrician during pregnancy and birth: results from a cohort study	64
Effect of antenatal use of high energy nutritional supplements on cardio metabolic risk markers in underweight primi gravidas; a randomized controlled trial	58
Rare spontaneous monochorionic dizygotic twins: a case report and a systematic review	58
Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) associated with pregnancy and SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report	55
Non-adherence to WHO’s recommended 8-contact model: geospatial analysis of the 2017 Maternal Health Survey	53
Improving the approach to assess impact of anaemia control programs during pregnancy in India: a critical analysis	52
Iranian midwives’ lived experiences of providing continuous midwife-led intrapartum care: a qualitative study	51
Revisiting fertility regulation and family ties in Tunisia	51
Association of epidural analgesia during labor and early postpartum urinary incontinence among women delivered vaginally: a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study	51
Community based screening for sickle haemoglobin among pregnant women in Benue State, Nigeria: I-Care-to-Know, a Healthy Beginning Initiative	49
Quality newborn care in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea: measuring early newborn care practices and identifying opportunities for improvement	48
Measurement of maternal morbidity during postpartum with the WHO-WOICE tools in Morocco	48
Optimization of programmed intermittent epidural bolus volume for different concentrations of ropivacaine in labor analgesia: a biased coin up-and-down sequential allocation trial	46
Impact of adenomyosis on perinatal outcomes: a large cohort study (JSOG database)	44
Exploring the implementation of an educational film within antenatal care to reduce the risk of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy: A qualitative study	44
The indicators for early blood transfusion in patients with placental abruption with intrauterine fetal death: a retrospective review	43
Determinants of childbirth care quality along the care continuum in limited resource settings: A structural equation modeling analysis of cross-sectional data from Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire	43
Health of singleton neonates in Switzerland through time and crises: a cross-sectional study at the population level, 2007-2022	41
The degree of risk factor and accumulation effect for large niche in individuals after cesarean section	41

Predicting the effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine uptake by pregnant women on birth weight using a generalized ordered partial proportional odds model	41
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	40
Pregnancy-specific stress and sensitive caregiving during the transition to motherhood in adolescents	40
Marginal cord insertion in the first trimester is associated with furcate cord insertion	39
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	39
Ghanaian women’s experiences of unsuccessful in-vitro fertilisation treatment, unravelling their meanings: a Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study	38
The yield of SNP microarray analysis for fetal ultrasound cardiac abnormalities	37
Trial of labour versus elective caesarean delivery for estimated large for gestational age foetuses after prior caesarean delivery: a multicenter retrospective study	37
Adherence to treatment for hypothyroidism in pregnancy and relationship with thyrotropin control: a retrospective observational cohort study	37
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	36
Distance matters: barriers to antenatal care and safe childbirth in a migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border from 2007 to 2015, a pregnancy cohort study	36
Predicting intraoperative hemorrhage during curettage treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy using free-breathing GRASP DCE-MRI	36