OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalization and Health is 12. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Comprehensive Medical Support in Complex Emergencies (CMSCE): pilot course review	108
North Korea’s COVID-19 policy dilemma: epidemic prevention conflicting with trade	80
Correction: Assessing the effects of mining projects on child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis	74
Cross-border utilization of cancer care by patients in the US and Mexico – a survey of Mexican oncologists	72
National governance and excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis and perspectives on future pandemics	69
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day: do climate variations enhance the spread of COVID-19?	65
Intellectual property licensing of therapeutics during the COVID-19 crisis: lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and response	63
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest: critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking	57
The alcohol industry’s involvement with road safety NGOs	54
Capturing sources of health system legitimacy in fragmented conflict zones under different governance models: a case study of northwest Syria	54
Implementation and challenges to preventing the re-establishment of malaria in China in the COVID-19 era	51
Securing the rights and health of domestic workers: the importance of ratifying the ILO’s C189	41
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	40
From isolation to revival: trade recovery amid global health crises	39
Reserve antibiotics: overcoming limitations of evidence generated from regulatory approval trials	38
Universal coverage of the first antenatal care visit but poor continuity of care across the maternal and newborn health continuum among Nepalese women: analysis of levels and correlates	38
Disclosure, transparency, and accountability: a qualitative survey of public sector pharmaceutical committee conflict of interest policies in the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region	38
Characteristics and outcomes of the drug patent linkage system in China	37
The politics of glyphosate regulation: lessons from Sri Lanka’s short-lived ban	36
Global smoking-related deaths averted due to MPOWER policies implemented at the highest level between 2007 and 2020	35
Financing of health services for undocumented immigrants in Iran: common challenges and potential solutions	34
“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies	34
Vaccine nationalism will persist: global public goods need effective engagement of global citizens	33
Learning from COVID-19: government leaders’ perspectives to improve emergency risk communication	33
Food insecurity, COVID-19 and diets in Fiji – a cross-sectional survey of over 500 adults	33

Future health expenditure in the BRICS countries: a forecasting analysis for 2035	32
“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
Safeguarding health in bilateral investment treaties: the Uruguayan experience	30
Translating global evidence into local implementation through technical assistance: a realist evaluation of the Bloomberg philanthropies initiative for global Road safety	29
Experiences of violence while in insecure migration status: a qualitative evidence synthesis	29
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	29
Structure, functions, performance and gaps of event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan, 2021: a cross-sectional review	28
Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons towards a more effective response to public health emergencies	28
Incremental financial costs of strengthening large-scale child nutrition programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam: retrospective expenditure analysis	28
Strengthening the WHO in the pandemic era by removing a persistent structural defect in financing	27
Correction: Mapping study for health emergency and disaster risk management competencies and curricula: literature review and cross-sectional survey	26
Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	25
How are global health policies transferred to sub-Saharan Africa countries? A systematic critical review of literature	25
Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability?	24
AMR and Sustainable Development Goals: at a crossroads	23
Research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning in medicine: global characteristics, readiness, and equity	23
Does international trade and investment liberalization facilitate corporate power in nutrition and alcohol policymaking? Applying an integrated political economy and power analysis approach to a case	23
Sugar, power and policy: The political economy of a health and economic ‘win–win’ in Fiji’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax	23
Health expenditure, governance and SDG3 nexus: a longitudinal analysis in BRICS economies	23
A case-based approach to teaching epidemic and pandemic-related global health diplomacy and security in African countries	22
COVID-19 crisis interlinkage with past pandemics and their effects on food security	22
A monetary model of global peace and health	22
Comparative effectiveness of financing models in development assistance for health and the role of results-based funding approaches: a scoping review	22
Safeguarding global health security amidst a scramble for Africa’s minerals for the clean energy transition	21
The biomedical securitization of global health	20
Exploring the perspectives and practices of humanitarian actors towards the Participation Revolution in humanitarian digital health responses: a qualitative study	20
“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	20
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	20
Association between Tobacco Industry Interference Index (TIII) and MPOWER measures and adult daily smoking prevalence rate in 30 countries	19
Towards mission-driven investment in new antimicrobials? What role for Chinese strategic industrial financing vehicles in responding to the challenge of antimicrobial resistance?	18
Strategies to strengthen a climate-resilient health system: a scoping review	18
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
Registering transparency: the making of the international clinical trial registry platform by the world health organization (2004–2006)	17
Redefining Debt-to-Health, a triple-win health financing instrument in global health	17
Does unequal economic development contribute to the inequitable distribution of healthcare resources? Evidence from China spanning 2001–2020	17
Global health diplomacy in Mexico: insights from key actors in the field	17
Equity of National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) in Mainland China, 2019: a cross-sectional study based on the NEPHS database	17
Women and working in healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil: bullying of colleagues	16
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	16
Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study	16
Implementation of a non-randomized controlled trial of yoga-based intervention to reduce behavioural issues in early adolescent school-going children in Sri Lanka	16
Health policy competencies in regional organizations: a retrospective analysis for 76 regional organizations from 1945 to 2015	16
Associated factors and global adherence of cervical cancer screening in 2019: a systematic analysis and modelling study	16
Constructing healthcare services markets: networks, brokers and the China-England engagement	15
The COVID-19 quandemic	15
In the aftermath of the adoption of the landmark Pandemic Accord: what are the strategic options for its effective implementation in Africa?	14
Cross-border precarity: the complex strain on expatriates and their families amidst public health crisis	14
Spatial–temporal trends in global childhood overweight and obesity from 1975 to 2030: a weight mean center and projection analysis of 191 countries	14
Dynamics of factors associated with rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in African countries	14
Pull me – push you? The disparate financing mechanisms of drug research in global health	14

Informal employment and poor self-perceived health in Latin America and the Caribbean: a gender-based comparison between countries and welfare states in a pooled analysis of 176,786 workers	14
Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan through $10 billion Afghani assets: what are the challenges and opportunities at hand?	14
Heatwaves: does global research reflect the growing threat in the light of climate change?	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
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 health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review	13
The multiple uses of telemedicine during the pandemic: the evidence from a cross-sectional survey of medical doctors in Brazil	13
Health information management systems and practices in conflict-affected settings: the case of northwest Syria	13
Faster and farther towards the abyss: global health accelerators instead of tangible changes	13
Leveraging WHO’s Global Benchmarking Tool to strengthen capacity in clinical trials oversight for public health emergencies: the GHPP VaccTrain model	13
The effect of COVID-19 on public confidence in the World Health Organization: a natural experiment among 40 countries	13
Examining the militarised hierarchy of Sierra Leone’s Ebola response and implications for decision making during public health emergencies	13
Does structural form matter? A comparative analysis of pooled procurement mechanisms for health commodities	13
From knowledge to action: the role of professional health associations on public health well-being in Ukraine	12
Universal public health insurance for Afghan refugees in Iran: a contextual analysis	12
Drivers of consumer food choices of multinational corporations’ products over local foods in Ghana: a maximum difference scaling study	12
Health status assessment of a population of asylum seekers in Northern Italy	12
The development of a method for the global health community to assess the proportion of food and beverage companies’ sales that are derived from unhealthy foods	12
Strengthening hospital infrastructure in a war context: the case of the Mopti regional hospital	12
Evaluating the effect of health insurance reform on health equity and financial protection for elderly in low- and middle-income countries: evidences from China	12
Management of health information of nepalese labour migrants	12