OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Informatics for Health & Social Care is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Residents’ subjective mental workload during computerized prescription entry	58
Usability testing of a mobile health application to support individuals with active tuberculosis: a mixed methods study	50
Predicting COVID-19 new cases in California with Google Trends data and a machine learning approach	39
A digital health application for managing pediatric asthma: Use and benefits	24
“Alexa, did the pandemic make you smarter?” A follow up content analysis of a virtual assistant’s responses to a prenatal query	19
Usability testing of a palliative care information resource - outcomes from the formative evaluation of the CarerHelp Toolkit prototype	18
The effects of extrinsic reward that affect a user’s continuous intention to use a fitness application	18
Implementation of a patient-centered mobile shared decision making platform and healthcare workers’ evaluation: a case in a medical center	16
Empowering the digital health workforce in Latin America in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the Peruvian case	15
A critical review of geriatric care in India with regard to the needs, challenges and opportunities: a wearable care approach	14
Security, privacy, and healthcare-related conversational agents: a scoping review	13
Validation of the eHealth literacy scales: comparison between the shorter and longer versions	12
Perceptions of patients and nurses regarding the use of wearables in inpatient settings: a mixed methods study	11
Maternal health expert feedback on the attributes of a predictive analytics tool to improve pregnancy-related cardiovascular and mental health outcomes in the United States	11
Social welfare professionals willing to participate in client information system development – Results from a large cross-sectional survey	7
Key factors of clinicians’ acceptance of CPOE system and their link to change management	6
Telemedicine solutions for patients with mental disorders: a Delphi study and review of mobile applications in virtual stores	5
Machine learning models to predict the COVID-19 reproduction rate: combining non-pharmaceutical interventions with sociodemographic and cultural characteristics	5
Impact of data visualization on decision-making and its implications for public health practice: a systematic literature review	4
A response to comparison of different predicting models to assist the diagnosis of spinal lesions, Chu et al. 2021	4
Identifying the underlying factors associated with antidepressant drug discontinuation: content analysis of patients’ drug reviews	4
Automatic user sentiments extraction from diabetes mobile apps – An evaluation of reviews with machine learning	4
Persuasive features for patient engagement through mHealth applications in managing chronic conditions: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	4
SLB - SMOTE logistic blending hybrid machine learning model for chronic polycystic ovary syndrome prediction with correlated feature selection	4
The effect of m-health applications on self-care improvement in older adults: A systematic review	4

Perceptions and Attitudes toward a Proposed Digital Health Physical Activity Program among Older Family Caregivers of Persons with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study	4
Adherence, acceptability, and usability of a smartphone app to promote physical exercise in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication	4
Computer vision-based system for early diagnosis of stereoscopic vision alterations	3
Intelligent type 2 diabetes risk prediction from administrative claim data	3
Fibromyalgia in social media: content and quality of the information analysis of videos on the YouTube platform	3
Multimorbidity in neurodegenerative diseases: a network analysis	3
Facilitating family centred care: the co-design development of text messages for fathers with an infant in NICU	3
A codesigned web platform for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people: a feasibility study	3
Machine learning-based prediction of adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)	3
Machine learning and natural language processing to identify falls in electronic patient care records from ambulance attendances	3
Information security and privacy in hospitals: a literature mapping and review of research gaps	2
Older adults’ perceptions of community-based telehealth wellness programs: a qualitative study	2
Alzheimer’s in the modern age: Ethical challenges in the use of digital monitoring to identify cognitive changes	2
Identifying biological markers and sociodemographic factors that influence the gap between phenotypic and chronological ages	2
A digital health ecosystem ontology from the perspective of Australian consumers: a mixed-method literature analysis	2
Perceptions of pre-licensure nursing students toward telecare and telenursing	2
Adoption of mobile dementia prevention services for middle-aged and older adults: applying the theory of coping strategies for dementia risks	2
Evaluating and refining a pain quality information visualization tool with patients and interpreters to facilitate pain assessment in primary care settings	2
Technology in psychology: a bibliometric analysis of technology-based interventions in clinical and health psychology	2
User-centred design of a patient portal for persons living with home mechanical ventilation and long-term tracheostomy: a mixed methods study	2
A systematic review of data elements of computerized physician order entry (CPOE): mapping the data to FHIR	2