OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Resources for Health is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Are doctors from the complementary and alternative systems of medicine less equal than their allopathic counterparts? Public sector doctors’ experiences of recruitment from two Indian states	296
Self-reported continuing professional development needs of medical laboratory professionals in Ghana	70
Activity-based planning of primary care utilization in a model of prospective demand for workforce	68
Primary health care coverage in Portugal: the promise of a general practitioner for all	58
Strategies for maintaining and strengthening the health care workers during epidemics: a scoping review	56
Mitigating health workforce migration in Romania: policy lessons for Europe	52
The professionalisation paradox: retaining the health advantages of community-based providers in task shifting and task sharing initiatives	50
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review	48
Understanding the scope of practice of physician associate/physician associate comparable professions using the World Health Organization global competency and outcomes framework for universal health	48
Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India	47
Feasibility and effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction programs on relieving burnout of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot randomized controlled trial in China	46
Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies	41
Prestige of disciplines within the field of nursing: a cross-sectional study	40
Assessing competence of mid-level providers delivering primary health care in India: a clinical vignette-based study in Chhattisgarh state	39
Capacity building models for managing multiple long-term conditions in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and gap analysis	36
Effectiveness of interventions by non-professional community-level workers or family caregivers to improve outcomes for physical impairments or disabilities in low resource settings: systematic review	33
Global estimate of burnout among the public health workforce: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
The influence of hospital accreditation on nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture	31
Exploring financial difficulty and help-seeking behaviour among medics in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional survey	30
Equivalence between physicians and associate clinicians in the frequency of iatrogenic urogenital fistula following cesarean section in Tanzania and Malawi	29
Love over gold and mind over matter? Identifying capabilities that preserve medical assistants’ sustainable employability	26
Mismatch between registration possibilities and patients’ local health needs, a simulated patient survey in the Paris metropolitan area	26
Consistency and quality in written accreditation protocols for pediatrician training programs: a mixed-methods analysis of a global sample, and directions for improvement	26
Resilience, sense of danger, and reporting in wartime: a cross-sectional study of healthcare personnel in a general hospital	24
Development of the WHO eye care competency framework	24

Ophthalmology workforce over a decade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: demographics, distribution, and future challenges	24
Development of an impact evaluation framework and planning tool for field epidemiology training programs	23
Promotion or prevention: regulatory foci as moderators in the job demands–resources model	22
The layered crisis of the primary care medical workforce in the European region: what evidence do we need to identify causes and solutions?	22
Leveraging community health workers as vaccinators: a case study exploring the role of Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistants in delivering routine immunization services	21
Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008–2021	21
Building health systems resilience in Central Asia through nursing and midwifery: evidence to inform policy action	21
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia	21
The roles and involvement of global health partners in the health workforce: an exploratory analysis	20
Exploring perceptions of work motivation through the experiences of healthcare professionals who provided end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic (PRECA-C project): a qualitative study	20
Doctors’ alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis	20
Global migration and factors influencing retention of Asian internationally educated nurses: a systematic review	19
Associations between medical education reforms and trends in the ophthalmology workforce and cataract surgery performance in Kazakhstan	19
Area remoteness and the distribution and attrition of the rural health workforce in Australia	19
Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time	19
Neonatal unit human resources: coverage for six cadres and trends for staff-to-baby ratios in 65 neonatal units implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania	19
Malaysian Medical Students’ Career Intention (MMSCI): a cross-sectional study	19
A scoping review of research capability building: impact on health workforce attraction and retention in rural and remote Australia	19
Self-sufficiency in the healthcare workforce: a system dynamics model of the domestic and foreign educated nursing and midwifery workforce in Ireland	19
The first wave of COVID-19 and mental distress of physician residents in Brazil: a comparison between two cohorts	18
Developing a competency model for Chinese general practitioners: a mixed-methods study	18
The impact of incentive scheme on rural healthcare workforce availability: a case study of Kazakhstan	18
The determinants of health workers’ job satisfaction in the Saudi Arabian health facilities	17
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries	17
Causes and effects of hospital nursing shortages to consider potential feedback effects: an umbrella review	17
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study	17
Gender gap in medicine: a call to action for Latin America	17
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
A qualitative study of the experiences of Syrian physicians in Türkiye: the need to strengthen integration	17
Trends in the geographic inequality of advanced practice nursing workforce in cancer care in Japan from 1996 to 2022: a panel data analysis	16
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review	16
Correction: Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada	16
Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study	16
Increasing the number of midwives is necessary but not sufficient: using global data to support the case for investment in both midwife availability and the enabling work environment in low- and middl	16
Physician turnover in China, 2011–2021: a nationwide longitudinal study	16
HRM issues and practices in internal stakeholder management for healthcare: a bibliometric and systematic literature analysis	16
Human and financial resource needs for universal access to WHO-PEN interventions for diabetes and hypertension care in Eswatini: results from a time-and-motion and bottom-up costing study	15
The faces behind vaccination: unpacking the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of staff of Cameroon’s Expanded program on Immunization	15
Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study	15
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule	15
Evaluating the effectiveness of Uganda’s Supranational TB Reference Laboratory quality management system training program	15
Factors influencing work performance and prospective mobile health applications among village health support groups: a formative study for i-MoMCARE development to enhance maternal, newborn, and child	15
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis	15
Methylphenidate use and misuse among medical residents in Israel: a cross-sectional study	15
“The emotions were like a roller-coaster”: a qualitative analysis of e-diary data on healthcare worker resilience and adaptation during the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore	14
The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce	14
Reducing maternal, neonatal, and child mortality and improving quality of health care through a national task-shifting program for public hospitals in Liberia	14
Evolution of physician resources in China (2003–2021): quantity, quality, structure, and geographic distribution	14
Development and validation of a competency-based assessment tool for public health workers in Shanghai community health centers: a population-based study	14
Future doctors, future scholars: factors influencing China-educated international medical students’ career intentions in primary care and academic medicine	14

Job satisfaction among postgraduate dental students and its contributing factors: a cross-sectional analysis	14
Increasing the ethnic diversity of senior leadership within the English National Health Service: using an artificial intelligence approach to evaluate inclusive recruitment strategies in hospital sett	13
Characterizing worker compensation claims in long-term care and examining the association between facility characteristics and severe injury: a repeated cross-sectional study from Alberta, Canada	13
Evaluation of a continuing professional development strategy on COVID-19 for 10 000 health workers in Ghana: a two-pronged approach	13
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes	13
Evaluation of the first two Frontline cohorts of the field epidemiology training program in Guinea, West Africa	13
Correction: Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries	13
Healthcare workers knowledge of cholera multi-stranded interventions and its determining factors in North-East Nigeria: planning and policy implications	12
Managing uncertainty in forecasting health workforce demand using the Robust Workforce Planning Framework: the example of midwives in Belgium	12
Effect of COVID-19 response work experience on turnover intention among employees of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in Seoul	12
Work experiences, burnout, and psychological distress of frontline health professionals during the COVID-19 omicron epidemic: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Southern China	12
Labour precariousness in the Mexican health workforce: taking to the surface a neglected problematic issue	12
A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India	12
Correction: Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan	12
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) workforce in Canada: a mixed methods study	12
Career trajectories of master of public health graduates from South African universities	12