OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Informatics for Health & Social Care is 0. 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
Fuzzy logic applications in chronic disease in decision-making: a comprehensive healthcare review	53
Integrating artificial intelligence in physical therapy: a quasi-experimental study comparing conventional treatment with a hybrid intervention using telerehabilitation for workers with whiplash syndr	31
Predicting COVID-19 new cases in California with Google Trends data and a machine learning approach	17
Examining the relationship between technostress, openness to change and performance in a smart health ecosystem: a research in a university hospital	15
Usability testing of a mobile health application to support individuals with active tuberculosis: a mixed methods study	12
A digital health application for managing pediatric asthma: Use and benefits	11
The usability and effectiveness of the Mobithera application on musculoskeletal pain and physical function in adult caregivers of oncology patients: a single-group pilot study	8
Modeling localized thermal therapy through coupled heat transfer and metabolic dynamics	8
“Alexa, did the pandemic make you smarter?” A follow up content analysis of a virtual assistant’s responses to a prenatal query	7
SmartWear: real-time Edge AI for personalized health monitoring in chronic disease management	7
Adaptation of Extended eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS-E) in Turkish: validity and reliability analysis	6
The effects of extrinsic reward that affect a user’s continuous intention to use a fitness application	5
Exploring the relationship between health professionals’ artificial intelligence literacy and their attitudes toward artificial intelligence	5
Developing an ageing adaptable emotional virtual human: an AI-based approach	5
Determining the intersection of health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviors: comparative analysis of individuals with and without COVID-19	4
Empowering the digital health workforce in Latin America in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the Peruvian case	4
Usability testing of a palliative care information resource - outcomes from the formative evaluation of the CarerHelp Toolkit prototype	4
Click, care, connect: incorporating nursing informatics into undergraduate nursing curricula	4
The effect of health literacy on attitudes toward substance use	4
A critical review of geriatric care in India with regard to the needs, challenges and opportunities: a wearable care approach	3
Enhancing health monitoring in smart offices: a multi-layered digital twin approach	3
Validation of the eHealth literacy scales: comparison between the shorter and longer versions	3
AI chatbots in the PICU: parental enthusiasm contrasts with socioeconomic usage disparities	2
Semantic interoperability and price analytics in hospital transparency data: a multi-stage pipeline with NLP and machine learning	2
Improving voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring-guided dosing through a clinical decision support system: enhancing antifungal stewardship	2

IoT-based Stomach abnormality detection via hybrid MDCNN-Bi-LSTM architecture with statistical and texture features	2
Automatic user sentiments extraction from diabetes mobile apps – An evaluation of reviews with machine learning	2
Correction	2
The effect of m-health applications on self-care improvement in older adults: A systematic review	2
Machine learning models to predict the COVID-19 reproduction rate: combining non-pharmaceutical interventions with sociodemographic and cultural characteristics	2
Perceptions and Attitudes toward a Proposed Digital Health Physical Activity Program among Older Family Caregivers of Persons with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study	1
Persuasive features for patient engagement through mHealth applications in managing chronic conditions: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	1
Identifying and prioritizing the barriers and facilitators to mHealth adoption among older adults: an expert-driven best–worst method approach to inform healthcare	1
Multimorbidity in neurodegenerative diseases: a network analysis	1
Evaluating mobile patient portals from a health behavioral change support perspective: mining user feedback using topic modeling	1
A dynamic decision support system to tackle the spread of COVID-19: predictive and clustering approaches	1
Toward an explainable AI-Based clinical decision support system for predicting adverse outcomes in Rhabdomyolysis	1
Perceptions of pre-licensure nursing students toward telecare and telenursing	0
Personalized medicine meets artificial intelligence: beyond “hype”, towards the metaverse	0
Research trends in hospital information systems in Korea: a topic modeling analysis	0
Older adults’ views on training tools to prevent cognitive decline	0
Identifying biological markers and sociodemographic factors that influence the gap between phenotypic and chronological ages	0
AI chatbots vs. web-based learning in digital health: a randomized trial on improving dry eye syndrome knowledge for nursing students	0
Design and development of a competency diagnosis program for personal information protection: among Korean medical institution personnel	0
Enhancing privacy and security in Federated learning protecting electronic health records data from adversarial attacks	0
A quantitative approach to evaluating open-source EHR systems for Indian healthcare: a metadata perspective	0
Recruitment and retention in mobile application-based intervention studies: a critical synopsis of challenges and opportunities	0
Exploring barriers to adoption of telemedicine platforms in rural Nigerian communities	0
A student-centred informatics approach for depression risk prediction using hybrid machine learning and optimization techniques to support early mental health interventions	0
Promoting activity in long-term care facilities with the social robot Pepper: a pilot study	0
Technology-driven diabetes management: a review of digital therapeutics, mobile apps, and clinical evidence	0
Development and validation of the infodemic scale	0
Technological acceptance and features needed in mobile health apps development for people living with dementia and their caregivers in Indonesia	0
Predictors of occupational balance in informal caregivers of individuals with disabilities: the roles of age, stress, social support, and caregiver burden	0
Adoption of mobile dementia prevention services for middle-aged and older adults: applying the theory of coping strategies for dementia risks	0
Old age or cognitive decline? Examining the usability of a mobile health app for older Australians	0
User-centred design of a patient portal for persons living with home mechanical ventilation and long-term tracheostomy: a mixed methods study	0
A chronic kidney disease prediction system based on Internet of Things using walrus optimized deep learning technique	0
Predicting the diabetes risk by analyzing symptoms using data mining techniques	0
Dual perspectives on large language models in rheumatology: physician-rated quality and patient-centered usability of GPT-4o versus DeepSeek-V3	0
Evaluating and refining a pain quality information visualization tool with patients and interpreters to facilitate pain assessment in primary care settings	0
Clustering public hospitals based on crisp and fuzzy clustering techniques and probabilistic fuzzy efficiency estimates	0
Computer vision-based system for early diagnosis of stereoscopic vision alterations	0
Digital mapping of health-related quality of life research in non-communicable diseases: a topic modeling and bibliometric synthesis for policy and practice	0
An overview of Parkinson’s disease: a narrative review	0
Self-care intervention using mobile apps for sexual and reproductive health in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region	0
Adherence, acceptability, and usability of a smartphone app to promote physical exercise in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication	0
Facilitating family centred care: the co-design development of text messages for fathers with an infant in NICU	0
How I want technology used in my care: Learning from documented choices of people living with dementia using a dyadic decision making tool	0
Correction	0
Informatics for health and social care volume 51, issue 1 (2026)	0
Assessing the quality and reliability of YouTube™ content on dental cleaning over time	0
Functional size measurement of postnatal care apps: Morocco case study	0
Application of artificial intelligence chatbots in the medical field: latent dirichlet allocation analyses	0
How satisfied are patients with nursing care and why? A comprehensive study based on social media and opinion mining	0

Alzheimer’s in the modern age: Ethical challenges in the use of digital monitoring to identify cognitive changes	0
Effective lung nodule segmentation and classification by employing a SPPUNet model and global context attention-based InceptionV3	0
A systematic review of data elements of computerized physician order entry (CPOE): mapping the data to FHIR	0
Health seeking behavior during high health-risk period: a bibliometric analysis	0
Assessing the impact of health information systems on timeliness of medical claim submission in Ghana: a multi-center quasi-experimental study	0
Effects of Healthcare Technologies on the Promotion of Physical Activities in Older Persons: A Systematic Review	0
SLB - SMOTE logistic blending hybrid machine learning model for chronic polycystic ovary syndrome prediction with correlated feature selection	0
Effectiveness of telemedicine interventions in the care management of melanoma: a systematic review	0
A codesigned web platform for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people: a feasibility study	0
Multimodal journaling as engagement tool for parents of premature babies	0
Applications of generative and predictive AI in nutrition and dietetics: a narrative review	0
New digital approach to managing student depression with focus on early detection through academic Pressure profiling	0
Algorithmic identification of persons with dementia for research recruitment: ethical considerations	0
Digital proficiency: a self-assessment of eHealth literacy and informatics competencies among nursing students	0
Adopting an electronic medication administration system in long-term care facilities: a key stakeholder interview study in Macao	0
IoT-Enabled healthcare ecosystems: innovations in remote monitoring, patient outcomes, and digital transformation	0