OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Implementation Science is 32. 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
Models and frameworks for assessing the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review	1339
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health	313
Optimizing vaccine uptake in sub-Saharan Africa: a collaborative COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Madagascar using an adaptive approach	294
Publisher Correction: A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-2022	217
Scale-up of prevention programmes: sustained state-wide use of programme delivery software is explained by normalised self-organised adoption and non-adoption	179
Scaling up Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams (QIST)—avoiding surgical site infection and anaemia at the time of surgery: a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of quality impr	119
Reviews of attitude research in implementation science require comprehensiveness, accuracy, and specificity	108
Optimizing responsiveness to feedback about antibiotic prescribing in primary care: protocol for two interrelated randomized implementation trials with embedded process evaluations	106
Changing the preschool setting to promote healthy energy balance-related behaviours of preschoolers: a qualitative and quantitative process evaluation of the SuperFIT approach	104
Barriers, frameworks, and mitigating strategies influencing the dissemination and implementation of health promotion interventions in indigenous communities: a scoping review	99
Effect of a tailored sepsis treatment protocol on patient outcomes in the Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: results of an interrupted time series analysis	98
The MOHMQuit (Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking) Trial: protocol for a stepped-wedge implementation trial to improve best practice smoking cessation support in public antenata	92
The role of implementation organizations in scaling evidence-based psychosocial interventions	90
Stepped implementation-to-target: a study protocol of an adaptive trial to expand access to addiction medications	83
Partnered implementation of the veteran sponsorship initiative: protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 effectiveness—implementation trial	66
SciComm Optimizer for Policy Engagement: a randomized controlled trial of the SCOPE model on state legislators’ research use in public discourse	65
Effect of core versus enhanced implementation strategies on adherence to a clinical pathway for managing anxiety and depression in cancer patients in routine care: a cluster randomised controlled tria	64
Cluster-randomized implementation trial of two facilitation strategies to implement a novel information and communications technology at the Veterans Health Administration	59
Implementation of state health insurance benefit mandates for cancer-related fertility preservation: following policy through a complex system	58
Exploring the content and delivery of feedback facilitation co-interventions: a systematic review	55
Sustaining the collaborative chronic care model in outpatient mental health: a matrixed multiple case study	54
Family cascade screening for equitable identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type III randomized controlled trial	50
Design of a dual randomized trial in a type 2 hybrid effectiveness—implementation study	44
Improving measurement-based care implementation in youth mental health through organizational leadership and climate: a mechanistic analysis within a randomized trial	44
Scaling up a brief alcohol intervention to prevent HIV infection in Vietnam: a cluster randomized, implementation trial	40

A living critical interpretive synthesis to yield a framework on the production and dissemination of living evidence syntheses for decision-making	40
Systems analysis and improvement to optimize opioid use disorder care quality and continuity for patients exiting jail (SAIA-MOUD)	39
De-implementation strategy to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for ambulatory HIV-infected patients with upper respiratory tract infections in Mozambique: a study protocol of a cluster rand	37
What validated instruments, that measure implementation outcomes, are suitable for use in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) setting? A systematic review of systematic reviews	36
Can an evidence-based mental health intervention be implemented into preexisting home visiting programs using implementation facilitation? Study protocol for a three variable implementation effectiven	36
Reducing asthma attacks in disadvantaged school children with asthma: study protocol for a type 2 hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial (Better Asthma Control for Kids, BACK)	36
Protocol for a hybrid type 3 cluster randomized trial of a technical assistance system supporting coalitions and evidence-based drug prevention programs	32
Operational and organizational variation in determinants of policy implementation success: the case of policies that earmark taxes for behavioral health services	32
“Our Choice” improves use of safer conception methods among HIV serodiscordant couples in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating two implementation approaches	32