OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medicine is 60. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
NICE and NHS England leads the way to improve diabetes care with access to continuous glucose monitoring for people with type 1 diabetes	320
Does disease incite a stronger moral appeal than health?	258
Can we achieve better trial recruitment by presenting patient information through multimedia? Meta-analysis of ‘studies within a trial’ (SWATs)	219
Reduced risk of placental parasitemia associated with complement fixation on Plasmodium falciparum by antibodies among pregnant women	217
The relationship between community food environment around schools and student meal participation: the role of school CEP participation status	212
Estimating the health and economic effects of the voluntary sodium reduction targets in Brazil: microsimulation analysis	177
The impact of medication reviews by general practitioners on psychotropic drug use and behavioral and psychological symptoms in home-dwelling people with dementia: results from the multicomponent clus	170
What effect have commissioners’ policies for body mass index had on hip replacement surgery?: an interrupted time series analysis from the National Joint Registry for England	169
SARS-CoV-2 infection is detrimental to pregnancy outcomes after embryo transfer in IVF/ICSI: a prospective cohort study	169
Differences in intention to receive clinician-collected and self-collected samples for HPV DNA testing and its determinants between heterosexual males and females in Hong Kong, China: findings of a te	145
Correction: Antenatal steroids elicited neurodegenerative-associated transcriptional changes in the hippocampus of preterm fetal sheep independent of lung maturation	138
Between faces: childhood adversity is associated with reduced threat-safety discrimination during facial expression processing in adolescence	133
Adults prenatally exposed to the Dutch Famine exhibit a metabolic signature associated with a broad spectrum of common diseases	132
Value of cannabidiol as adjunctive treatment for Lennox Gastaut syndrome: cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis	130
Utility of shaking chills as a diagnostic sign for bacteremia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	122
Normal-weight central obesity and cardiometabolic disorders among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians	122
A cross-sectional study evidences regulations of leukocytes in the colostrum of mothers with obesity	114
Double-negative T cells in combination with ursodeoxycholic acid ameliorates immune-mediated cholangitis in mice	112
Functional genomics elucidates regulatory mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease-associated variants	109
Ketorolac in the perioperative management of acute type A aortic dissection: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial	109
Prognostic value of circulating tumor DNA in operable non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and reconstructed individual patient-data based meta-analysis	108
The role of estimated glucose disposal rate in predicting cardiovascular risk among general and diabetes mellitus population: a systematic review and meta-analysis	104
Analysis of host-pathogen gene association networks reveals patient-specific response to streptococcal and polymicrobial necrotising soft tissue infections	102
Discrepancies between general and central obesity in arterial stiffness: observational studies and Mendelian randomization study	102
Metabolic characteristics and pathogenesis of precocious puberty in girls: the role of perfluorinated compounds	100

Interstitial pneumonitis associated with combined regimen of immunotherapy and conventional therapies—pharmacovigilance database analysis with real-world data validation	99
Maximizing the cost-effectiveness of cervical screening in the context of routine HPV vaccination by optimizing screening strategies with respect to vaccine uptake: a modeling analysis	98
Real-time forecasting the trajectory of monkeypox outbreaks at the national and global levels, July–October 2022	97
Effect of chimeric antigen receptor T cells against protease-activated receptor 1 for treating pancreatic cancer	94
Associations between types and sources of dietary carbohydrates and liver fat: a UK Biobank study	94
Immunogenicity, efficacy, and safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dose fractionation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	93
Coronary microvascular function in male physicians with burnout and job stress: an observational study	93
Twenty-year trend in the prevalence of increased cardiometabolic risk, measured by abdominal obesity, among Spanish children and adolescents across body mass index categories	89
Transmission event of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant reveals multiple vaccine breakthrough infections	89
Association of ideal cardiovascular health with cardiovascular events and risk advancement periods in a Mediterranean population-based cohort	87
Alcohol consumption and hepatocellular carcinoma: novel insights from a prospective cohort study and nonlinear Mendelian randomization analysis	87
Hepatic artery infusion of FOLFOX chemotherapy plus camrelizumab combined with sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage C (Double-IA-001): a phase II tria	87
Prednisolone does not improve olfactory function after COVID-19: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial	81
Association between viral infections and glioma risk: a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis	80
Disease and mortality trajectories of cognitively able autistic individuals in mid- and later adulthood	80
A Pfs48/45-based vaccine to block Plasmodium falciparum transmission: phase 1, open-label, clinical trial	79
Association between patient ethnicity and prostate cancer diagnosis following a prostate-specific antigen test: a cohort study of 730,000 men in primary care in the UK	79
Changes in the critical nutrient content of packaged foods and beverages after the full implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling and Advertising Law: a repeated cross-sectional study	76
Integration of clinical and blood parameters in risk prognostication for patients receiving immunochemotherapy for extensive stage small cell lung cancer: real-world data from two centers	75
Central nervous system efficacy of furmonertinib (AST2818) in patients with EGFR T790M mutated non-small cell lung cancer: a pooled analysis from two phase 2 studies	73
Effects of non-pharmacological interventions for adults with subjective cognitive decline: a network meta-analysis and component network meta-analysis	73
ANXA4 restricts HBV replication by inhibiting autophagic degradation of MCM2 in chronic hepatitis B	72
Appraising the causal relationship between plasma caffeine levels and neuropsychiatric disorders through Mendelian randomization	72
Pharmacological treatment in autism: a proposal for guidelines on common co-occurring psychiatric symptoms	71
Population-based plasma lipidomics reveals developmental changes in metabolism and signatures of obesity risk: a mother-offspring cohort study	69
The regulatory variant rs1950834 confers the risk of depressive disorder by reducing LRFN5 expression	68
Connection between trajectory of primary cancer monitoring indicators and mortality after cancer in South Korea	68
Social connection and mortality in UK Biobank: a prospective cohort analysis	67
Is a voluntary healthy food policy effective? evaluating effects on foods and drinks for sale in hospitals and resulting policy changes	67
Effect of human papillomavirus infection on semen quality and assisted reproductive technology outcomes: a prospective observational cohort study	66
Patient outcomes following AKI and AKD: a population-based cohort study	65
Associations of the circulating levels of cytokines with risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a Mendelian randomization study	64
Mesenchymal stromal cells plus basiliximab improve the response of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease as a second-line therapy: a multicentre, randomized, controlled trial	62
Association of lifestyle with valvular heart disease progression and life expectancy among elderly people from different socioeconomic backgrounds	61
Characterising social contacts under COVID-19 control measures in Africa	61