OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Audiology is 4. 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
An evaluation of newborn hearing screening brochures and parental understanding of screening result terminology	59
Simplification and validation of the spectro-temporal ripple direction discrimination test in children	38
Automated pure-tone audiometry using true wireless stereo earbuds with active noise control	33
Integrated bimodal fitting and binaural streaming technology outcomes for unilateral cochlear implant users	28
Validation of a tablet-based application for hearing self-screening in an adult population	18
An adaptive short form of the tinnitus handicap inventory (THI) applicable for slight and mild tinnitus, facilitating online tinnitus treatment triage	17
Remote programming of cochlear implants: a mixed-methods study of audiologist experiences and patient satisfaction	17
Objective measures of auditory temporal resolution with ABR	17
A new objective method to estimate the charge integration efficiency in cochlear implant users	16
Ear and hearing outcomes in Aboriginal infants living in an urban Australian area: the Djaalinj Waakinj birth cohort study	16
Immediate test-retest reliability and agreement of wideband absorbance results in infants	16
A qualitative investigation of the hearing and hearing-aid related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss	15
Difference in characteristics between tinnitus patients with and without hyperacusis according to three different definitions of hyperacusis	15
Synchronous remote fine-tuning and follow-up within aural rehabilitation: a randomised controlled trial	15
Accuracy of automated pure-tone audiometry in population-based samples of older adults	15
Feasibility of implementing a school entry hearing screening programme in the South-East District, Botswana	15
Monaural and binaural speech-recognition curves for the freiburg monosyllabic speech test in quiet	13
Exploring age-dependent speech recognition in noise for children with hearing loss: insights from hearing Aid or cochlear Implant rehabilitation	13
Remote assessment of music perception in pediatric cochlear implant recipients	12
Impedance development after implantation of hybrid-L24 cochlear implant electrodes	12
Associated factors for parent-reported otitis media in 12-month-old infants	12
French adaptation and validation of the Chronic Otitis Media Questionnaire-12 (COMQ-12)	12
The potential of electrocochleography in explaining the variability in cochlear implant outcomes: a scoping review	12
Hearing care services for adults with hearing loss in Malaysia: a scoping review	11
An accessible Image-Based Questionnaire for Hearing (IBQ-H): Item selection	10

Similar performance in sound localisation with unsynchronised and synchronised automatic gain controls in bilateral cochlear implant recipients	10
COVID-19 and tinnitus: an initiative to improve tinnitus care	10
User-operated audiometry – an evaluation of expert vs. non-expert headphone placement	10
Reasons for the non-use of hearing aids: perspectives of non-users, past users, and family members	10
Quality of life improvement in Cochlear implant outpatients: a non-randomized clinical trial of an auditory music training program	10
Establishing equivalence between acoustic and electrical auditory thresholds: a first step towards hearing via electrostimulation	10
How do adults with hearing loss, family members, and hearing care professionals respond to the stigma of hearing loss and hearing aids?	10
Acoustic reflexes: should we be paying more attention?	10
A systematic review of barriers and facilitators for ethnically diverse communities in accessing adult and paediatric hearing services	9
The effects of face masks on speech-in-speech recognition for children and adults	9
Electrodermal activity and subjective annoyance in speech recognition tasks with noise as stress indicators	9
Sex-specific differences in self-reported speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing abilities	9
Development of a family-centred intervention for families and children with hearing loss transitioning into early intervention: application of the Behaviour Change Wheel	9
Extended scope audiology clinic – a review of its outcomes and re-presentation to the ear nose and throat service	9
Machine learning-enhanced behavioural approach to detecting reactions to sound in infants and toddlers: proof-of-concept study	9
Predicting perceived communication difficulty from behavioural measures during dyad conversations affected by noise or hearing attenuation	9
Reference Speech-recognition curves for a German monosyllabic test in noise: effects of loudspeaker configuration and room acoustics	9
To tell or not to tell? Exploring the social process of stigma for adults with hearing loss and their families: introduction to the special issue	8
Do we need audiogram-based prescriptions? A systematic review	8
An overview of World Health Organization guidance aiming to increase global access to critical hearing aid services	8
Multimodal assessment of tinnitus using functional near-infrared spectroscopy and psychophysiological measures	8
Responses to listening difficulty in in-person conversation: a survey-based synthesis of communication strategies used by people with hearing loss, communication partners, and hearing-care professiona	8
Online-administered hearing handicap inventory: evaluation of reliability and item-order effects	8
Psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the international outcome inventory – alternative interventions (IOI-AI) – ear surgery (IOI-AI ^op )	8
Validating the Parent-evaluated Listening and Understanding Measure (PLUM): caregiver observations reliably reflect long-term otitis media-related hearing status in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait	7
Association between personal attenuation rating with types of earplugs and noise exposure levels in a textile factory in China	7
Contralateral hearing aid use in adult cochlear implant recipients: retrospective analysis of auditory outcomes	7
The development of a clinical practice guideline for the audiological management of infants and young children with permanent unilateral hearing loss using an integrated knowledge translation approach	7
Consumer and audiologist perspectives on hearables: a qualitative study	7
The validity of using a self-report single question as a means to detect hearing loss in an adolescent population	7
“I’ve always felt in the middle of hearing people and the deaf community.” What is it like to grow up with hearing loss?	7
What’s in a name? A systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effectiveness of non-medical amplification devices in adults with mild and moderate hearing losses	7
Rising-frequency chirp stimuli effectively enhance the amplitude and shorten the latency of 40-hz auditory steady-state response	7
The impact of aging on masseter vestibular evoked myogenic potentials	7
Prevalence of ear and hearing-related disorders among school children in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Pre-employment hearing threshold levels of 59,601 Australian male coal miners compared to an otologically normal international male population (ISO7029:2019)	7
Integrated speech audiometry: objective and subjective performance of elderly listeners	7
Gap detection responses modelled using the Hill equation in adults with well-controlled HIV	6
Methods for comparing hearing-aid programs in group conversations: paired comparisons and ratings	6
Migraine associated with tinnitus and hearing loss in adults: a systematic review	6
A comparison of automated verification using paediatric hearing aids	6
Digits in noise testing in a multilingual sample of Asian adults	6
Barriers and facilitators to air travel among adults with hearing loss: a scoping review	6
Clinical and genetic characterisation of childhood-onset sensorineural hearing loss reveal associated phenotypes and enrichment of pathogenic founder mutations in the Finnish population	6
Social determinants of health associated with attitudes towards hearing loss and hearing aids in older adults fitted in a Latin American country: validation of the ALHQ questionnaire into Spanish	6
Associations of frailty, self-reported balance problems, hearing abilities, and posturography in a sample of older adults	6
Data standards in audiology: a mixed-methods exploration of community perspectives and implementation considerations	6
Validation of an integrated pressure level measured earmold wideband real-ear-to-coupler difference measurement	6
Dizziness in adults with chronic otitis media at two otology referral centres in Colombia: a cross-sectional study in a middle-income country	6
Hearing difficulties and memory problems: the mediating role of physical health and psychosocial wellbeing	6

Work absence and ability in tinnitus patients: the role of hyperacusis and tinnitus severity	6
Sensorineural hearing loss alters auditory discrimination of natural soundscapes	6
The impact of using the Ida “My Hearing Explained” tool on audiologists’ language and patient understanding of hearing test results: a comparison with standard audiogram explanations	6
The positive side of living with tinnitus: a cross-sectional study	6
Psychoacoustic characterisation of linguistically balanced, Danish sentences for speech-in-noise experiments	6
Evaluating the user-operated audible contrast threshold test as a language-independent proxy of speech-in-noise perception	6
Adults’ recollections of discussions with their audiologist: a qualitative study of what was and was not successfully communicated about listening difficulties	6
Simplified frequency selectivity measure as a potential candidate for hearing screening: changes with masker level and test-retest reliability of self-administered testing	6
Remote microphone performance in exercise environments: an effectiveness–implementation study	6
Hearing aid wear time and its impact on vocabulary in preschoolers with moderately severe to profound hearing loss	6
“Can physical activity reduce the risk of having tinnitus?”	6
Three-dimensional scan versus conventional mould of outer ear in fabricating earmolds for hearing aids: a randomized controlled trial	5
Objective verification of audibility in bone conduction devices	5
Usability and desirability of a hearing health chatbot: an explorative study	5
Investigation of the relationship between severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss and vestibulo-ocular reflex using objective vestibular tests	5
Difference in SII provided by initial fit and NAL-NL2 and its relation to self-reported hearing aid outcomes	5
Development of audiology in Ghana: past, present, and future	5
The value of headphone accommodations in Apple Airpods Pro for managing speech-in-noise hearing difficulties of individuals with normal audiograms	5
Otoacoustic emissions for the preliminary screening of otitis media in children: a systematic review using a diagnostic test accuracy approach	5
Interventions to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in farmworkers: a scoping review	5
Correction	5
Auditory processing disorder: an online survey of hearing healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices	5
The relationship and interdependence of auditory thresholds, proposed behavioural measures of hidden hearing loss, and physiological measures of auditory function	5
Cortical auditory evoked potentials (P1 latency) in children with cochlear implants in relation to clinical language tests	5
Barriers and facilitators to tele-audiology service delivery in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of hearing healthcare clinicians	5
Conformities and gaps of clinical audiological data with the international classification of functioning disability and health core sets for hearing loss	5
A qualitative exploration of the assessment process to cochlear implantation for children with hearing loss	5
“It’s just another sign of getting older”: Exploring experiences of hearing loss using the awareness of age-related change framework	5
The pediatric misophonia and hyperacusis questionnaire (PMHQ): a screening tool inspired by the MisoQuest and hyperacusis questionnaire	5
Hearing acuity in nonagenarians aged 90 and 95 assessed in a home setting using standardized pure-tone audiometry	5
Effects of remote work and hearing loss status on well-being and communication in individuals with hearing loss before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective survey study	5
Maximum stable gain and fitting range of percutaneously applied bone conduction devices	5
Understanding the correlates of hearing-specific empowerment in a clinical hearing loss population	5
Role of the medial olivocochlear efferent auditory system in speech perception in noise: a systematic review and meta-analyses	5
Auditory cortical potentials indices in phonological awareness: a systematic review	5
Estimates of interaural attenuation in children and the implications for masking in clinical audiometry	4
Developing effective communication skills in audiology using anonymous patient feedback	4
Cochlear implant wear time and speech perception outcomes in adults: recommendation for minimum daily wear time	4
Central auditory testing in young Tanzanian children: feasibility and relationship to cognition	4
Consonant and vowel confusions in well-performing adult cochlear implant users, measured with a nonsense syllable repetition test	4
Classification performance of Spanish and English word recognition testing to identify cochlear implant candidates	4
Parameters influencing auditory fatigue among professionals working in the amplified music sector: noise exposure and individual factors	4
Acoustic analysis of the effect of personal protective equipment on speech understanding: lessons for clinical environments	4
Leisure noise exposure and hearing outcomes among Canadians aged 6 to 79 years	4
Accuracy of automated and non-audiologist-operated audiometry compared to gold-standard testing	4
Auditory brainstem response thresholds and functional hearing: implications for cochlear implant candidacy	4
Risky leisure noise exposure during the transition to adulthood and the impact of major life events – results of the OHRKAN cohort study	4
Masseter and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in individuals with auditory neuropathy	4
Conventional hearing aid amplification, notch therapy, or increased gain at tinnitus pitch: a randomised controlled multicentre study	4
The role of working memory in speech recognition by hearing-impaired older listeners: does the task matter?	4
The acoustic change complex evoked by location-change sounds in the elderly	4
Central auditory processing and cognitive abilities after mild traumatic brain injury in school-aged children	4
Spectral ripple discrimination and use of speech context factors in relation to speech perception in noise in single-sided deaf cochlear implant users	4
Psychometric validation of the Spanish-versions of the Vanderbilt fatigue scales for adults	4
Targeting NLRP3 inflammasome activation in styrene-induced ototoxicity: comparative efficacy of rosmarinic acid and anakinra in mitigating oxidative and inflammatory damage	4
Reasons for hearing aid uptake in the United States: a qualitative analysis of open-text responses from a large-scale survey of user-perspectives	4
Recordability of the vestibular cerebellar evoked potential	4
Cochlear-implant simulated spectral degradation attenuates emotional responses to environmental sounds	4
Automated wave labelling of the auditory brainstem response using machine learning	4
Analysis of tinnitus severity and associated factors in patients with chronic otitis media in a low- to middle-income country	4
Revisiting the transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions passing criteria used for newborn hearing screening	4
Assessing otolith dysfunction in Meniere’s disease: insights from multi-frequency vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing	4
Remote hearing aid renewal using pre-existing audiograms during the covid-19 pandemic	4
Associations between medical conditions and auditory dysfunction in US Veterans	4
Input-related demands: vocoded sentences evoke different pupillometrics and subjective listening effort than sentences in speech-shaped noise	4