OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Reproductive Health is 27. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Designing and validating an adaptation tool for endometriosis: an exploratory mixed method study protocol	226
Challenges and opportunities from using abortion harm reduction and value clarification and attitude transformation engagements for safe abortion advocacy in Uganda	111
Influence of socio-contextual factors on the link between traditional and new media use, and young people’s sexual risk behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: a secondary data analysis	62
Food aversion during pregnancy and its association with nutritional status of pregnant women in Boricha Woreda, Sidama Regional State, Southern Ethiopia, 2019. A community based mixed crossectional st	62
The thought that i could continue with school got lost: a qualitative exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the education and sexual and reproductive health of Malawi youth	60
Contextual determinants of generational continuation of female genital mutilation among women of reproductive age in nigeria: analysis of the 2018 demographic and health survey	58
A multilevel analysis of trends and predictors associated with teenage pregnancy in Zambia (2001–2018)	56
Strategies to enhance sexual health education for prevention of teenage pregnancy in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province: different stakeholder’s perspectives, a co-operative Inquiry qualitative protoco	52
Intimate partner violence after childbirth: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study protocol	51
Reproductive health literacy scale: a tool to measure the effectiveness of health literacy training	51
Machine learning analysis of the relationships between traumatic childbirth experience with positive and negative fertility motivations in Iran in a community-based sample	50
Fear of childbirth and psychiatric disorders decrease the likelihood of subsequent births: a retrospective register-based cohort study	49
Assessing parental marital quality and divorce related to youth sexual experiences and adverse reproductive health outcomes among 50,000 Chinese college students	48
Family planning service availability and readiness assessment of primary health care facilities in Delta State, Nigeria: a mixed methods survey	47
The association between childbirth-related fear, childbirth readiness, and fertility intentions, and childbirth readiness as the mediator	44
The long-term effects of reproductive health education among primary and secondary school students: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study in rural Tanzania	41
Exploring women’s interpretations of survey questions on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: cognitive interviews in Iganga Mayuge, Uganda	41
“It’s important to foster open discussion about the topic”: development, implementation, and evaluation of an ethics of abortion independent learning module for second year medical students	39
Contraceptive behavior of women in India after induced abortion	34
Socioeconomic and residence-based inequalities in adolescent fertility in 39 African countries	34
‘Baby mamas’ in Urban Ghana: an exploratory qualitative study on the factors influencing serial fathering among men in Accra, Ghana	33
The advancement of a gender ethics protocol to uncover gender ethical dilemmas in midwifery: a preliminary theory model	32
Social determinants of health pave the path to maternal deaths in rural Sri Lanka: reflections from social autopsies	31
A 20 year experience in the management of non-tubal ectopic pregnancies in a tertiary hospital – a retrospective review	31
Early union, ‘disgrasya’, and prior adversity and disadvantage: pathways to adolescent pregnancy among Filipino youth	30

Nutritional practice of pregnant women in Buno Bedele zone, Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study	28
Paternal smoking and preterm birth: a population-based retrospective cohort study among non-smoking women aged 20–49 years in rural China	28
Compliance with iron-folate supplementation among pregnant women in Southern Ethiopia: a multi-center cross-sectional study	27