OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Medical Library Association is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Researcher profiling systems: fostering collaboration on a regional medical campus and clinical and translational science award institution	421
Erratum to “How accurate are gender detection tools in predicting the gender for Chinese names? A study with 20,000 given names in Pinyin format,” 2021;110(2):205–11.	270
Succeeding in Academic Medicine: A Roadmap for Diverse Medical Students and Residents	124
Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians	108
Algorithmic indexing in MEDLINE frequently overlooks important concepts and may compromise literature search results	47
Health sciences library workshops in the COVID era: librarian perceptions and decision making	45
Effect of librarian collaboration on otolaryngology systematic review and meta-analysis quality	34
Revitalizing medical schools in late sixteenth-century China: Lü Kun and the medical reform program in his Shizheng Lu	34
Health sciences librarians’ engagement in open science: a scoping review	27
Automated indexing using NLM's Medical Text Indexer (MTI) compared to human indexing in Medline: a pilot study	25
Erratum to “Performance of gender detection tools: a comparative study of name-to-gender inference services,” 2021;109(3):414–21 and “Using genderize.io to infer the gender of first names: how to impr	23
Sharing of retracted COVID-19 articles: an altmetric study	22
Implementation science: why should we care?	22
Resource Review: EndNote 21 desktop version	20
Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War	16
Shaping the past: how donors influenced Becker Library’s rare book collections	16
Acute mental health concerns in emergency settings: development and validation of an Ovid MEDLINE search filter	15
Piloting a long-term evaluation of library data workshops	15
The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)	14
Imagine all you want, but…	13
A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era	11
Alexander Fleming: a second look	11
Non-clinician involvement in interprofessional health sciences education: educator experiences and attitudes	10
Stepping up to the moment: collaborating on a data management and sharing workshop series	10
Medical libraries and their complicated past: an exploration of the historical connections between medical collections and racial science	10

Systems Librarianship: A Practical Guide	9
Video killed the multiple-choice quiz: capturing pharmacy students’ literature searching skills using a screencast video assignment	9
Adapt and advance: the Medical Library Association's journey through innovation and change	9
Impacts of educational interventions of librarian instruction on health information seeking attitudes and behaviors in an employee wellness program	8
Creating information resources and trainings for farmworker-serving community health workers	8
Learning on the job: using Artificial Intelligence to support rapid review methods	8
COVID-19 Evidence Reviews website: a VA effort to catalog and curate COVID-19 evidence reviews	8
Identifying gaps in consumer health library collections: a retrospective review	7
Emerging Human Resource Trends in Academic Libraries	7
The veteran-centered care conferences: interprofessional education and community involvement facilitated by the health sciences librarian	7
Enabling discovery of the social determinants of health: using a specialized lens to see beyond the surface	7
A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned before and during a pandemic	7
Exploring librarians’ practices when teaching advanced searching for knowledge synthesis: results from an online survey	6
Designing for impact: a case study of UTHSC’s research impact challenge	6
Health sciences librarians of African heritage: an earnest entreaty for research	6
Integrating PICO principles into generative artificial intelligence prompt engineering to enhance information retrieval for medical librarians	6
The Clinical Medical Librarian’s Handbook	6
Using focus groups to evaluate a multiyear consumer health outreach collaboration	6
Insights from search summary tables for evidence and gap maps: a case study on peer support interventions	6
Sub-Saharan Africa's biomedical journal coverage in scholarly databases: a comparison of Web of Science, Scopus, EMBASE, MEDLINE, African Index Medicus, and African Journals Online	5
Great Library Events: From Planning to Promoting to Evaluation	5
MLA Colleague Connection: a transition to a virtual mentoring program	5
Unsolicited solicitations: identifying characteristics of unsolicited emails from potentially predatory journals and the role of librarians	5
Identifying diversity, equity, and inclusion enhancement opportunities through an online mixed methods library survey	5
Looking back, looking forward	5
How accurate are gender detection tools in predicting the gender for Chinese names? A study with 20,000 given names in Pinyin format	5
Determining COVID-19’s impact on an academic medical library’s literature search service	5
Discrepancies among Scopus and Web of Science, coverage of funding information in medical journal articles: a follow-up study	4
Visualizing diversity: the Oregon Health & Science University Educational Use Photo Diversity Repository	4
Integration of arts and humanities in medicine to develop well-rounded physicians: the roles of health sciences librarians	4
Development and validation of a modified LibQUAL scale in health sciences libraries: application of Structural Equation Modeling	4
Rosalind Farnam Dudden (1944-2023)	4
LGBTQ+ health research guides: a multi-institutional analysis of usage patterns and user information needs	4
LitCovid, iSearch COVID-19 portfolio, and COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease	4
The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century	4
Breathing life into learning about air quality: developing and implementing environmental health outreach with high school students	4
Open access and predatory publishing: a survey of the publishing practices of academic pharmacists and nurses in the United States	4
Searching for evidence in public health emergencies: a white paper of best practices	4
Analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using open data, Python, and Streamlit	4
Physical therapy students’ perceptions of embedded medical librarians within evidence-based practice courses: a mixed-methods pilot study	3
MEDLINE citation tool accuracy: an analysis in two platforms	3
A health literacy analysis of the consumer-oriented COVID-19 information produced by ten state health departments	3
A comparative evaluation of three point-of-care tools by registered nurses	3
Jot: guiding journal selection with suitability metrics	3
Partnership development of the COVID-19 Front Door: a best evidence resource	3
Advocacy is all of us: recommendations to enhance the Medical Library Association's advocacy initiatives	3
Demystifying COVID-19 publications: institutions, journals, concepts, and topics	3
Evaluating the discoverability of supporting research materials in ClinicalTrials.gov for US federally funded COVID-19 clinical studies	3
VOSviewer and Bibliometrix	3
Evidence-based biomedical research in Sub-Saharan Africa: how library and information science professionals contribute to systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3

Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework	3
Individual DOI minting for Open Repository: a script for creating a DOI on demand for a DSpace repository	3
Patient-based benefit-risk assessment of medicines: development, refinement, and validation of a content search strategy to retrieve relevant studies	3
Designing and assessing a data literacy internship program for graduate health sciences students	3
Sharing electronically and accessibly in library-led instruction	3
Large-scale systematic review support for guideline development in diabetes precision medicine	3
A decade of Does: celebrating the 125th anniversary of MLA through an annual meeting conversation with past Janet Doe lecturers	3
Striving for equity: An update from the Journal of the Medical Library Association	3
Evaluating a large language model’s ability to answer clinicians’ requests for evidence summaries	3
Except for my commute, everything is the same: the shared lived experience of health sciences libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic	3