OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalization and Health is 11. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
North Korea’s COVID-19 policy dilemma: epidemic prevention conflicting with trade	117
Cross-border utilization of cancer care by patients in the US and Mexico – a survey of Mexican oncologists	88
Implementation and challenges to preventing the re-establishment of malaria in China in the COVID-19 era	71
Intellectual property licensing of therapeutics during the COVID-19 crisis: lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and response	70
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest: critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking	62
Selective empathy and the genocide in Gaza: the silence of health and academic associations	56
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day: do climate variations enhance the spread of COVID-19?	55
National governance and excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis and perspectives on future pandemics	51
Capturing sources of health system legitimacy in fragmented conflict zones under different governance models: a case study of northwest Syria	46
Reserve antibiotics: overcoming limitations of evidence generated from regulatory approval trials	44
Characteristics and outcomes of the drug patent linkage system in China	44
Securing the rights and health of domestic workers: the importance of ratifying the ILO’s C189	43
Food industry degrowth as a public health strategy: the case of ultra processed baked goods	42
From isolation to revival: trade recovery amid global health crises	41
Back home, beyond borders: a bioecological study of returnee public health scholars in a globalized health system	40
The politics of glyphosate regulation: lessons from Sri Lanka’s short-lived ban	40
From proposal to compromise: the TRIPS waiver debate and the crisis of WTO decision-making	39
Global smoking-related deaths averted due to MPOWER policies implemented at the highest level between 2007 and 2020	38
Lobbying and nutrition policy in Canada: a quantitative descriptive study on stakeholder interactions with government officials in the context of Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy	38
Financing of health services for undocumented immigrants in Iran: common challenges and potential solutions	38
Future health expenditure in the BRICS countries: a forecasting analysis for 2035	36
Food insecurity, COVID-19 and diets in Fiji – a cross-sectional survey of over 500 adults	35
“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies	35
Learning from COVID-19: government leaders’ perspectives to improve emergency risk communication	33
Translating global evidence into local implementation through technical assistance: a realist evaluation of the Bloomberg philanthropies initiative for global Road safety	32

Challenges and barriers to effective COVID-19 screening at Iran’s air border crossings: a qualitative study and proposed solutions	32
Safeguarding health in bilateral investment treaties: the Uruguayan experience	31
“When there is no money, that is when I vomit blood”: the domino effect and the unfettered lethal exploitation of Black labor on Dominican sugar plantations	30
Incremental financial costs of strengthening large-scale child nutrition programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam: retrospective expenditure analysis	28
GDP per capita and physician migration across world regions, 2000–2021	27
Structure, functions, performance and gaps of event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan, 2021: a cross-sectional review	26
Experiences of violence while in insecure migration status: a qualitative evidence synthesis	24
AMR and Sustainable Development Goals: at a crossroads	24
COVID-19 crisis interlinkage with past pandemics and their effects on food security	24
Research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning in medicine: global characteristics, readiness, and equity	24
Geographical and practical challenges in the implementation of digital health passports for cross-border COVID-19 pandemic management: a narrative review and framework for solutions	24
Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	24
A monetary model of global peace and health	23
The discriminatory politics of knowledge production	23
Sugar, power and policy: The political economy of a health and economic ‘win–win’ in Fiji’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax	23
The successful scaling-up of antiretroviral therapy globally has many lessons for advancing universal health coverage: progress at risk	23
Correction: Mapping study for health emergency and disaster risk management competencies and curricula: literature review and cross-sectional survey	21
Health expenditure, governance and SDG3 nexus: a longitudinal analysis in BRICS economies	21
Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability?	21
A case-based approach to teaching epidemic and pandemic-related global health diplomacy and security in African countries	20
Safeguarding global health security amidst a scramble for Africa’s minerals for the clean energy transition	20
Comparative effectiveness of financing models in development assistance for health and the role of results-based funding approaches: a scoping review	20
Towards mission-driven investment in new antimicrobials? What role for Chinese strategic industrial financing vehicles in responding to the challenge of antimicrobial resistance?	19
“Favoring those who contributed to their political campaigns”: an analysis of the incentives received by the food industry in Colombia in the period of 2018—2020	19
Why do International Health Regulations self-assessment capacities (SPAR) scores not predict COVID-19 control outcomes? – analysis of the relationship between SPAR scores and COVID-19 resilience score	18
U.S. withdrawal from WHO and aid programs: implications and opportunities for Africa’s global health security	18
The biomedical securitization of global health	18
Tool for assessing food industry commitments and practices to address the double burden of malnutrition: a Delphi study	18
Exploring the perspectives and practices of humanitarian actors towards the Participation Revolution in humanitarian digital health responses: a qualitative study	18
Strategies to strengthen a climate-resilient health system: a scoping review	17
Designing legislative responses to restrict children’s exposure to unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing: a case study analysis of Chile, Canada and the United Kingdom	17
WHO’s 2026 emergency appeal and global health security	17
Redefining Debt-to-Health, a triple-win health financing instrument in global health	17
Association between Tobacco Industry Interference Index (TIII) and MPOWER measures and adult daily smoking prevalence rate in 30 countries	17
Health policy competencies in regional organizations: a retrospective analysis for 76 regional organizations from 1945 to 2015	16
Women and working in healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil: bullying of colleagues	16
Equity of National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) in Mainland China, 2019: a cross-sectional study based on the NEPHS database	16
Registering transparency: the making of the international clinical trial registry platform by the world health organization (2004–2006)	15
Does unequal economic development contribute to the inequitable distribution of healthcare resources? Evidence from China spanning 2001–2020	15
Comprehensive evaluation of community human settlement resilience and spatial characteristics based on the supply–demand mismatch between health activities and environment: a case study of downtown Sh	15
Canadian mines, global issues: examining health impacts, demanding action	15
Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study	15
Associated factors and global adherence of cervical cancer screening in 2019: a systematic analysis and modelling study	15
Food packaging: identifying the socio-economic drivers and reduction opportunities through system dynamics modelling	15
In the aftermath of the adoption of the landmark Pandemic Accord: what are the strategic options for its effective implementation in Africa?	14
The COVID-19 quandemic	14
How are sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) addressed in UN conventions, treaty bodies, and decisions: a scoping review	14
Are we happy with our work in globalization? Globalization experience, achievement motivation, and job seniority as predictors of work satisfaction in a group of office workers	14
Heatwaves: does global research reflect the growing threat in the light of climate change?	14
Constructing healthcare services markets: networks, brokers and the China-England engagement	14

Dynamics of factors associated with rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in African countries	13
Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan through $10 billion Afghani assets: what are the challenges and opportunities at hand?	13
The challenges in protecting public health interests in multisectoral governance in the context of small island developing states: the case of tobacco control in Fiji and Vanuatu	13
The multiple uses of telemedicine during the pandemic: the evidence from a cross-sectional survey of medical doctors in Brazil	13
Leveraging WHO’s Global Benchmarking Tool to strengthen capacity in clinical trials oversight for public health emergencies: the GHPP VaccTrain model	13
Pull me – push you? The disparate financing mechanisms of drug research in global health	13
Does structural form matter? A comparative analysis of pooled procurement mechanisms for health commodities	13
Cross-border precarity: the complex strain on expatriates and their families amidst public health crisis	13
Continuity of maternal and newborn health service provision among private sector players following donor transition. Hope amidst challenging implementation experiences in Uganda	13
Spatial–temporal trends in global childhood overweight and obesity from 1975 to 2030: a weight mean center and projection analysis of 191 countries	13
Health information management systems and practices in conflict-affected settings: the case of northwest Syria	12
The effect of COVID-19 on public confidence in the World Health Organization: a natural experiment among 40 countries	12
Health status assessment of a population of asylum seekers in Northern Italy	12
Examining the militarised hierarchy of Sierra Leone’s Ebola response and implications for decision making during public health emergencies	12
Faster and farther towards the abyss: global health accelerators instead of tangible changes	12
The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review	12
From knowledge to action: the role of professional health associations on public health well-being in Ukraine	12
Drivers of consumer food choices of multinational corporations’ products over local foods in Ghana: a maximum difference scaling study	11
Making Big Business Everybody’s Business: Aboriginal leaders’ perspectives on commercial activities influencing Aboriginal health in Victoria, Australia	11
Strengthening hospital infrastructure in a war context: the case of the Mopti regional hospital	11
Universal public health insurance for Afghan refugees in Iran: a contextual analysis	11
Digital activism in Kenya: moving from the digital center to the digital periphery of Long Covid experience	11
Management of health information of nepalese labour migrants	11
Resilience level and its association with maladaptive coping behaviours in the COVID-19 pandemic: a global survey of the general populations	11
Editorial: Whither globalization and health in an era of geopolitical uncertainty?	11
China’s global health diplomacy through the World Health Organization: a qualitative study	11
Evaluating the effect of health insurance reform on health equity and financial protection for elderly in low- and middle-income countries: evidences from China	11