OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Research Policy and Systems is 8. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production	146
Individual, health system, and contextual barriers and facilitators for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic metareview	137
Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: a systematic review of reviews	134
A review of reviews on principles, strategies, outcomes and impacts of research partnerships approaches: a first step in synthesising the research partnership literature	108
The opioid crisis: a contextual, social-ecological framework	88
From COVID-19 research to vaccine application: why might it take 17 months not 17 years and what are the wider lessons?	58
Managing COVID-19 within and across health systems: why we need performance intelligence to coordinate a global response	57
Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda	56
Strategies for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in public health: an overview of systematic reviews	56
Amplifying the role of knowledge translation platforms in the COVID-19 pandemic response	48
Future health spending forecast in leading emerging BRICS markets in 2030: health policy implications	45
Exploring why global health needs are unmet by research efforts: the potential influences of geography, industry and publication incentives	44
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”	44
Using natural experiments to improve public health evidence: a review of context and utility for obesity prevention	41
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	40
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education	38
Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review	36
The household financial burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	36
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks	35
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: tensions confronting large-scale CHW programmes	35
Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health	33
Learning from public health and hospital resilience to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: protocol for a multiple case study (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Mali)	32
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing	32
A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration	30

Making change last? Exploring the value of sustainability approaches in healthcare: a scoping review	29
Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders	29
Framing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research: priorities for strengthening rehabilitation	29
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era	28
Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform?	27
Strengthening the science of addressing antimicrobial resistance: a framework for planning, conducting and disseminating antimicrobial resistance intervention research	26
The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy	26
A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research	26
Adapting evidence-informed population health interventions for new contexts: a scoping review of current practice	25
Defining and classifying public health systems: a critical interpretive synthesis	25
Demographic forecasting of population aging in Greece and Cyprus: one big challenge for the Mediterranean health and social system long-term sustainability	25
Health provider perspectives on the implementation of the same-day-ART initiation policy in the Gauteng province of South Africa	25
Bridging the research–practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia	24
The state of health research governance in Africa: what do we know and how can we improve?	24
Measuring the resilience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a focus on community resilience	24
Using a co-design process to develop an integrated model of care for delivering self-management intervention to multi-morbid COPD people in rural Nepal	22
Intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to health policy: an umbrella review protocol	22
Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature	21
A systems approach to scale-up for population health improvement	21
How to strengthen a health research system: WHO’s review, whose literature and who is providing leadership?	20
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships	20
Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation	19
Lessons learned from descriptions and evaluations of knowledge translation platforms supporting evidence-informed policy-making in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	19
Development of the WHO Antenatal Care Recommendations Adaptation Toolkit: a standardised approach for countries	19
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries	18
Health research system resilience: lesson learned from the COVID-19 crisis	18
A critical interpretive synthesis of the roles of midwives in health systems	18
Financial risk protection from out-of-pocket health spending in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature	18
Developing a Thai national critical care allocation guideline during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review and stakeholder consultation	18
The added value of using the HEPA PAT for physical activity policy monitoring: a four-country comparison	17
War on Diabetes in Singapore: a policy analysis	17
Promoting knowledge to policy translation for urban health using community-based system dynamics in Brazil	17
Stakeholders’ experiences of the public health research process: time to change the system?	17
Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?	16
Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India	16
A landscape analysis of health technology assessment capacity in the Association of South-East Asian Nations region	16
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Recent advances in supervision	16
The opioid crisis: need for systems science research	15
Applied systems thinking: a viable approach to identify leverage points for accelerating progress towards ending neglected tropical diseases	15
Understanding the complexity of population health interventions: assessing intervention system theory (ISyT)	15
Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review	15
Community-led HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Lebanon: lessons learned and impact of COVID-19	14
Conducting decolonizing research and practice with Australian First Nations to close the health gap	14
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance	14
Evaluation of the performance and achievements of the WHO Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe	14
Workplace-based health research training: a qualitative study of perceived needs in a rural setting	14
A framework for preferred practices in conducting culturally competent health research in a multicultural society	14
Health system decision-makers at the helm of implementation research: development of a framework to evaluate the processes and effectiveness of embedded approaches	14
A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations	14
Unveiling and addressing implementation barriers to routine immunization in the peri-urban slums of Karachi, Pakistan: a mixed-methods study	13

Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability – a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers	13
Sex and gender analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions	13
Using health data for decision-making at each level of the health system to achieve universal health coverage in Ethiopia: the case of an immunization programme in a low-resource setting	13
Rethinking approaches of science, technology, and innovation in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: the challenge of translating knowledge infrastructures to public needs	13
Barriers to sustainable health research leadership in the Global South: Time for a Grand Bargain on localization of research leadership?	13
Domains and processes for institutionalizing evidence-informed health policy-making: a critical interpretive synthesis	13
Translating evidence into practice: a longitudinal qualitative exploration of allied health decision-making	13
Key factors for national spread and scale-up of an eConsult innovation	13
Defining key questions for clinical practice guidelines: a novel approach for developing clinically relevant questions	12
Implementation research training for learners in low- and middle-income countries: evaluating behaviour change after participating in a massive open online course	12
Fit for purpose. Co-production of complex behavioural interventions. A practical guide and exemplar of co-producing a telehealth-delivered exercise intervention for people with stroke	12
Integrated knowledge translation to advance noncommunicable disease policy and practice in South Africa: application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework	12
The role of community pharmacists in increasing access and use of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: examples from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon a	12
Noncommunicable diseases and health system responses in Saudi Arabia: focus on policies and strategies. A qualitative study	12
Flipping the paradigm: a qualitative exploration of research translation centres in the United Kingdom and Australia	12
Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research	12
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Programme performance and its assessment	11
The role of Allied Health Professions and Nursing Research Internships in developing a research culture: a mixed-methods exploration of stakeholder perspectives	11
Coordinating the research response to COVID-19: Mali’s approach	11
Uncovering the processes of knowledge transformation: the example of local evidence-informed policy-making in United Kingdom healthcare	11
Health technology assessment-informed pricing negotiation in China: higher negotiated price for more effective targeted anticancer medicines?	11
Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening	11
Aiming for quality: a global compass for national learning systems	11
Capacity building for implementation research: a methodology for advancing health research and practice	11
Self-care and remote care during pregnancy: a new paradigm?	11
Direct from the COVID-19 crisis: research and innovation sparks in Brazil	11
Challenges encountered in comparing international policy responses to COVID-19 and their effects	11
Developing pathways for community-led research with big data: a content analysis of stakeholder interviews	11
Barriers and enablers to source plasma donation by gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men under revised eligibility criteria: protocol for a multiple stakeholder feasibility study	10
Use of research evidence varied in efforts to expand specific pharmacist autonomous prescriptive authority: an evaluation and recommendations to increase research utilization	10
Prioritizing guideline recommendations for implementation: a systematic, consumer-inclusive process with a case study using the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management	10
Towards conceptualizing patients as partners in health systems: a systematic review and descriptive synthesis	10
Indicators to evaluate organisational knowledge brokers: a scoping review	10
Tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts: a systematic review	10
The crucible of COVID-19: what the pandemic is teaching us about health research systems	10
Using RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) to evaluate the reporting quality of WHO guidelines	10
Increased use of knowledge translation strategies is associated with greater research impact on public health policy and practice: an analysis of trials of nutrition, physical activity, sexual health,	10
A mixed-methods systematic review of suicide prevention interventions involving multisectoral collaborations	10
Learning sites for health system governance in Kenya and South Africa: reflecting on our experience	10
Prioritizing knowledge translation in low- and middle-income countries to support pandemic response and preparedness	10
A research agenda for non-communicable disease prevention and control in India	10
Co-production in local government: process, codification and capacity building of new knowledge in collective reflection spaces. Workshops findings from a UK mixed methods study	10
The MULTI-ACT model: the path forward for participatory and anticipatory governance in health research and care	10
Assessing how information is packaged in rapid reviews for policy-makers and other stakeholders: a cross-sectional study	9
The predictors of COVID-19 mortality among health systems parameters: an ecological study across 203 countries	9
Health technology assessment of biosimilars worldwide: a scoping review	9
Operationalising health systems thinking: a pathway to high effective coverage	9
COVID-19: protocol for observational studies utilizing near real-time electronic Australian general practice data to promote effective care and best-practice policy—a design thinking approach	9
Improving the availability of prescription drugs in Lebanon: a critical analysis of alternative policy options	9
Global research priorities for social, behavioural and community engagement interventions for maternal, newborn and child health	9
Strengthening the national health information system through a capacity-building and mentorship partnership (CBMP) programme: a health system and university partnership initiative in Ethiopia	9
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana through the lens of a policy analytical framework	9
Implementing performance-based financing in peripheral health centres in Mali: what can we learn from it?	9
Strategies to adapt and implement health system guidelines and recommendations: a scoping review	9
Policy context, coherence and disjuncture in the implementation of the Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance programme in the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa	9
Limitations of COVID-19 testing and case data for evidence-informed health policy and practice	9
Using developmental evaluation to enhance continuous reflection, learning and adaptation of an innovation platform in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare	9
Governing heatwaves in Europe: comparing health policy and practices to better understand roles, responsibilities and collaboration	9
The pragmatic, rapid, and iterative dissemination and implementation (PRIDI) cycle: adapting to the dynamic nature of public health emergencies (and beyond)	9
Trainee-led research using an integrated knowledge translation or other research partnership approaches: a scoping review	9
Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data	9
Rapid research response to the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre	8
Deconstructing design thinking as a tool for the implementation of a population health initiative	8
Inclusive planning: African policy inventory and South African mobility case study on the exclusion of persons with disabilities	8
Fundamental challenges in assessing the impact of research infrastructure	8
Investigating the influence of institutions, politics, organizations, and governance on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia, Canada: a jurisdictional case study protocol	8
Describing implementation outcomes for a virtual community of practice: The ECHO Ontario Mental Health experience	8
Health research capacity building of health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a scoping review of challenges, strengths, and recommendations	8
How to disseminate national recommendations for physical activity: a qualitative analysis of critical change agents in Germany	8
Investigating the nature and quality of locally commissioned evaluations of the NHS Vanguard programme: an evidence synthesis	8
The role of self-care interventions on men’s health-seeking behaviours to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights	8
Lessons from the pandemic on the value of research infrastructure	8
Bridging the gap: an economic case study of the impact and cost effectiveness of comprehensive healthcare intermediaries in rural Mexico	8
Co-creating physical activity interventions: a mixed methods evaluation approach	8
Pharmaceutical subsidy policy in Iran: a qualitative stakeholder analysis	8
An analysis of the strategic plan development processes of major public organisations funding health research in nine high-income countries worldwide	8
Using participatory action research to improve immunization utilization in areas with pockets of unimmunized children in Nigeria	8
Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model	8