OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health Action is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis	68
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)	60
“Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi	49
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis	42
Cluster analysis of social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS knowledge among Peruvian youths using Kohonen’s self-organized maps: a data-exploration study based on a Demographic and health survey	37
Strategies for supporting the implementation of a task-shared psychological intervention in South Africa’s chronic disease services: qualitative insights from health managers’ experiences of project M	32
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States	30
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications	28
Validation of the Child Development Card (KKA) as a growth and development tool for stunted and normal children in West Java, Indonesia	27
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 2019	24
Patient perspectives on group problem management plus for adults with major depressive disorder in rural Malawi	24
Applying a multi-layered, mixed methods approach to evaluate technology and workforce interventions in Kenyan neonatal units	24
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone	23
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis	23
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review	23
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health	23
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria	23
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021	23
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study	23
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol	23
Understanding the feasibility of yoga and compassion meditation for stress management in mothers of children with intellectual disabilities in Nepal: a qualitative exploration	22
Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China	22
Preparedness for treating injured patients at a single-centre trauma hospital in Ethiopia: a qualitative study	22
Livelihood dynamics and challenges to wellbeing in the drylands of rural East Africa – the Drylands Transform study population in the Karamoja border region	21
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study	20

Public health system response to emerging infectious respiratory outbreaks in Iran	20
Measuring the quality of mental health services from the patient perspective in China: psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the World Health Organization responsiveness performance questi	19
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives	19
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model	18
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries	18
“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia	18
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research	18
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios	17
Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions	16
Development and validation of the Healthcare Worker Stress Scale-Vietnamese: a culturally grounded instrument to assess work-related stress	16
The new administration in the USA: impact of policy changes in development assistance on low- and middle-income countries, with the example of Nepal	16
Disability inclusion in the Brazilian health system: results of a health system assessment	16
Facilitators and barriers to anemia prevention in the urban government childcare program for infants and young children in Peru	15
Hospital referral patterns amongst older adults in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study	15
Should disability-inclusive health be a priority in low-income countries? A case-study from Zimbabwe	15
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal	14
Strategies to increase rural maternal utilization of skilled health personnel for childbirth delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review	14
Exploring approaches to weighting estimates of facility readiness to provide health services used for estimating input-adjusted effective coverage: a case study using data from Tanzania	14
A decade of health research capacity building in Honduras: institutional transformation, challenges, and lessons learned	14
Comparison of a palm-based biometric solution with a name-based identification system in rural Bangladesh	14
The escalating health crisis in Gaza amidst armed conflict and heatwaves	13
Psychological distress 35 years after the Chornobyl accident in the Lithuanian clean-up workers	13
HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Sweden. A cross-sectional study concerning interest to use HIV self-tests	13
Implementation and evaluation of a family planning intervention engaging mothers-in-law of young women in India: a mixed methods pilot study	13
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	13
Behavioural and emotional comorbidities in school-aged children with neurological conditions in Kilifi, Kenya, and their long-term consequences	13
WHO’s structured process for creating health-conducive environments in countries: insights and examples from the African region	13
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru	13
Starting then stopping: a nationwide register-based study on the magnitude, predictors, and urban-rural patterns of under-vaccination variation across health centers in The Gambia	12
‘Condoms are hard to get by’: access to HIV prevention methods during lockdown of the COVID-19 epidemic in eastern Zimbabwe	12
Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia	12
Disease burden comparison and associated risk factors of early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis in China and the USA, 1990–2019	12
Effects of decentralization on the functionality of health facility governing committees in lower and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	12
Causes of death among older children and adolescents (5–19 years) in the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study, Tanzania, 1995–2022	12
Validating a modified instrument for measuring Demand-Control-Support among students at a large university in southern Sweden	11
The role of community health workers in influencing social connectedness using the household model: a qualitative case study from Malawi	11
Beyond supply and demand: a new ecological framework for understanding the access of young migrants to sexual and reproductive health services in Sweden	11
The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana	11
Navigating power, participation, and priorities: critical reflections for Global Financing Facility new strategy	11
Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda	11
Stakeholder views on the implementation of the UK’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) National Action Plan (2019–2024) in relation to AMR in the environment	11
Community-based hearing aid fitting model for adults in low-income communities facilitated by community health workers: a feasibility study	11
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens	11
The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods	11
Implementation matters: program impact pathway analysis of four sectoral nutrition-sensitive interventions in Anambra and Kebbi states, Nigeria	10
Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose: a scoping review of studies from 1981 - 2021	10
Bibliometric and visual analysis of global research on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and children’s health: evidence, emerging concerns, and research gaps	10
Using maternal sepsis patient journeys to map and prioritise barriers to quality maternal healthcare in Malawi: a multidisciplinary stakeholder consultation workshop	10
Understanding women’s decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women’s reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective	10
Interactive effects of atmospheric oxidising pollutants and heat waves on the risk of residential mortality	10

Does health insurance coverage improve cardiometabolic risk factor levels? Quasi-experimental evidence from India	10
Women’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its association with child stunting: findings from a population-based study in rural Rwanda	10
Social inequalities in social-emotional problems among preschool children: a population-based study in Sweden	10
A decade of designing and implementing electronic health records in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	9
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization	9
Empowering women: intimate partner violence and its association with unintended pregnancies, contraceptive use, and HIV infection among Ugandan women: a cross-sectional population-based study in Wakis	9
‘If her body responds then you know she wants it’: a qualitative study on how young people in Ecuador and Uganda understand and practice consent	9
Spatio-temporal patterns of health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in Volta region, Ghana: a repeated cross-sectional ecological study using health facility d	9
Mental health and substance use among international migrant workers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health	9
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi	9
Adapting a digital quality improvement system (Neotree) for newborn care in primary health centres and community hospitals: a mixed-methods implementation study in Malawi	9
Estimating the level and determinants of catastrophic expenditure related to hypertension management in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	9
Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa – a point of (no) return	9
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda	9
Spatial epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in Karnataka using GIS-based analysis	9
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study	9
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence	9
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania	8
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study	8
Depression, anxiety, and medication adherence among Sudanese refugees with chronic illnesses in Aftit refugee camp, northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	8
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents	8
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents	8
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review	8
Evaluation of care and clinical outcomes after the implementation of an electronic medical record system for type 1 diabetes management in Rwanda	8
Optimizing healthcare for blood donors at risk of transfusion-transmissible infections: pre-implementation mixed methods protocol	8
Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR	8
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health	8
Fiscal policies and regulations for healthy diets in Sri Lanka: an analysis of the political economy of taxation and traffic light labelling for sugar-sweetened beverages	8
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol	8
Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town: a descriptive study	8
Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Co	8
Assessment of adherence to the National Malaria Guidelines in treatment management of malaria among children under five in integrated community case management in the DRC	8
Determinants of outpatient healthcare-seeking behaviors among the rural poor affected by chronic conditions in India: a population-based cross-sectional study in seven states	8
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis	8
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis	8
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis	7
Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho	7
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned	7
Improving WASH facilities and practices in Bangladeshi schools: progress and challenges from 2014 to 2018	7
Community engagement to develop a dialogue-drama on adolescent pregnancy in a marginalised migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: an ethnographic approach to participatory action research	7
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
Client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South Ethiopian public health facilities: an institution-based cross-sectional survey	7
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa	7
Understanding the meanings of male partner support in the adherence to therapy among HIV-positive women: a gender analysis	7
Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study	7
The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review	7
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	7
Geographic and socioeconomic inequities in cesarean delivery rates at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: A secondary analysis of the national family health survey-5	7
Changes in self-reported risky sexual behaviour indicators among adults receiving regular risk reduction counselling and optional initiation of pre-exposure prophylaxis in an HIV vaccine preparedness	7
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment	7
The Health Innovation Impact Checklist: a tool to improve the development and reporting of impact models for global health innovations	7
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda	7