OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Research Policy and Systems is 27. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A systemic approach to identifying sustainable community-based interventions for improving adolescent mental health: a participatory group model building and design protocol	116
Lessons from the pandemic: Relationship between patient visits and patient length of stay in California’s health system	66
Evaluating the impact, implementation experience and political economy of primary care networks in Kenya: protocol for a mixed methods study	66
The value and promise of embedded research	61
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research	61
Facilitators, barriers and strategies for health-system guidance implementation: a critical interpretive synthesis protocol	59
Tracking global resources and capacity for health research: time to reassess strategies and investment decisions	58
A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations	58
Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature	58
A scoping review of the roles of stakeholders and coordination mechanisms for enhanced multi-sectoral and multi-level interventions in COVID-19 response in Nigeria	56
Comprehensive HIV knowledge and associated factors among reproductive-age women: analysis of the Gambia Demographic and Health Survey 2019/2020	49
Do targeted intergovernmental fiscal transfers improve health outcomes? Evidence from Kenyan decentralization using the difference-in-differences technique	48
Building a virtual community of practice: experience from the Canadian foundation for healthcare improvement’s policy circle	46
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks	44
Concept analysis of health system resilience	41
Early career researchers in health policy and systems research: insights from freelancers in a non-profit organization in the Philippines	40
“They don't have the luxury of time”: interviews exploring the determinants of public health research activity that contextualise embedded researcher roles in local government	39
Understanding healthcare professionals’ responses to patient complaints in secondary and tertiary care in the UK: A systematic review and behavioural analysis using the Theoretical Domains Framework	38
European health regulations reduce registry-based research	38
Building bridges: evaluating policymakers' research capacities, engagement, and utilization in health policymaking within the Kuwaiti context: a cross-sectional study	36
A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
What do end-users want to know about managing the performance of healthcare delivery systems? Co-designing a context-specific and practice-relevant research agenda	35
Institutional-level drivers of gender-inequitable scientific career progression in sub-Saharan Africa	34
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	30
How to set the agenda for hepatitis C: a theory-driven policy analysis	29

Exploring static and dynamic relationships between burden of disease and research funding in the United States	28
An analysis of how health systems integrated priority-setting in the pandemic planning in a sample of Latin America and the Caribbean countries	27