OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Biomedical Informatics is 39. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Leveraging heterogeneous tabular of EHRs with prompt learning for clinical prediction	207
Detection of valvular heart diseases combining orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization and convolutional neural networks in PCG signals	188
A self-supervised language model selection strategy for biomedical question answering	113
One-shot distributed algorithms for addressing heterogeneity in competing risks data across clinical sites	100
A robust phenotype-driven likelihood ratio analysis approach assisting interpretable clinical diagnosis of rare diseases	95
Development of a 3-Step theory of suicide ontology to facilitate 3ST factor extraction from clinical progress notes	89
A multimodal machine learning algorithm improved diagnostic accuracy for otitis media in a school aged Aboriginal population	86
ViPal: A framework for virulence prediction of influenza viruses with prior viral knowledge using genomic sequences	77
Graph-based abstractive biomedical text summarization	74
Integrating Mendelian randomization and literature-mined evidence for breast cancer risk factors	67
Predicting relations between SOAP note sections: The value of incorporating a clinical information model	66
Joint modeling of mixed outcomes using a rank-based sparse neural network	65
Measuring disease burden with individual cumulative incidence in patients with cirrhosis	63
Corrigendum to “A pipeline for harmonising NHS Scotland laboratory data to enable national-level analyses” [J. Biomed. Inform. 2025 Feb;162:104771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104771. Epub 2025	63
From centralized to ad-hoc knowledge base construction for hypotheses generation	60
Creating a computer assisted ICD coding system: Performance metric choice and use of the ICD hierarchy	58
Discontinuous named entities in clinical text: A systematic literature review	57
Multi-agent norm perception and induction in distributed healthcare	56
Realistic 3D infant head surfaces augmentation to improve AI-based diagnosis of cranial deformities	53
From translational bioinformatics computational methodologies to personalized medicine	53
A Syntax-enhanced model based on category keywords for biomedical relation extraction	51
Deep neural networks for neuro-oncology: Towards patient individualized design of chemo-radiation therapy for Glioblastoma patients	51
Identifying cancer sub-types from genomic scale data sets using confidence based integration (CBI)	50
Cover 1/Spine	50
Towards a unified search: Improving PubMed retrieval with full text	50

Learning the progression patterns of treatments using a probabilistic generative model	49
Informative missingness: What can we learn from patterns in missing laboratory data in the electronic health record?	49
Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health using multimodal sensing of multiple situations of interest: A Systematic Literature Review	49
TransDiffECG: Semantically controllable ECG synthesis via transformer-based diffusion modeling	48
MAM: Flexible Monte-Carlo Agent based model for modelling COVID-19 spread	47
Introducing the BlendedICU dataset, the first harmonized, international intensive care dataset	45
A fuzzy-based framework for diagnosing esophageal mobility disorder using high-resolution manometry	44
Hypothesis-driven modeling of the human lung–ventilator system: A characterization tool for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome research	44
fmi-ii: Table of Contents	43
Cover 1/Spine	43
Using a clinical narrative-aware pre-trained language model for predicting emergency department patient disposition and unscheduled return visits	40
Network-based analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease genes using multi-omics network integration with graph diffusion	39
Digital twins in increasing diversity in clinical trials: A systematic review	39
Automatic categorization of self-acknowledged limitations in randomized controlled trial publications	39