OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ-British Medical Journal is 94. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Brexit three years on: Health and the NHS are still suffering	2831
Sixty seconds on . . . EU covid certificates	1150
Methenamine is as effective as antibiotics at preventing urinary tract infections	928
GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months	454
Ask the consultant: old age psychiatry	422
Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal	419
Sixty seconds on . . . Wembley	391
Doctors should ask patients about gambling, draft guidance recommends	355
Cryptic Christmas crossword	331
The BMJ Awards 2021: “Landmark” study on dexamethasone wins paper of the year	325
Doctor’s voluntary erasure to avoid fitness to practise hearing can’t be challenged legally, judge rules	308
E-cigarette maker Juul will pay $462m to settle deceptive marketing allegations in six US states	297
Judge stops attempt to sue companies over harms of pregnancy test in the absence of evidence	290
Peter Gould	290
Halt patient access to medical records if there are safety concerns, BMA tells GPs	265
Sixty seconds on . . . excellence awards	259
Poverty is behind deterioration in health in under 5s in the UK, find researchers	256
Subacute small bowel obstruction or chronic large bowel obstruction	252
Vaccination to prevent mpox	249
Covid-19: Silencing health workers, researchers, and journalists caused unnecessary deaths, says Amnesty	242
CQC is reviewing GP service provider’s use of less qualified staff after BBC investigation	235
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended	234
Children lack access to routine dental care	229
The BMJ Awards 2021: Critical care team of the year	227
John Arthur Lunn	226

Roundup from the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2023	225
Covid-19: Omicron drives weekly record high in global infections	223
Junior doctors’ pay dispute in England: Government and BMA agree to look at mediation	220
Covid-19: How Kerala kept itself above water in India’s devastating second wave	220
Helen Salisbury: Risk and responsibility when working with physician associates	219
BMA calls for investigation into debacle over covid and flu vaccinations	217
An international medical student’s perspective	217
Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report	216
Managing risk: GP Pipin Singh	211
Government’s “neglect” of GP workforce has made services unsafe, conference hears	211
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk	211
February top picks: new beginnings	196
Dystonia	195
Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed	186
Mortality risk in transgender people is twice as high as in cisgender people, data show	181
Pension changes won’t stem doctor exodus, warns BMA	178
At the heart of communities: the consultant geriatrician	172
Julian André Bradley	171
GP is liable only for costs of harm related to her advice in case of “wrongful birth,” say Supreme Court judges	167
Heliotrope rash	167
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	162
Gas in the kidney	159
The NHS crisis is not an equal crisis	151
How Botswana discovered the omicron variant	146
Judge rebukes expert witness in injured baby case for series of failings	143
Helen Salisbury: Where have our GPs gone?	143
Charles Wakeley	142
Sixty seconds on . . . xylazine	142
Charles Martin-Bates	141
Three ways genomics is already helping NHS patients—and three ways it will soon	139
David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic	137
Winter is coming—but will the gloomiest forecasts come to pass?	136
Author’s reply to Dawson	135
Formula milk companies are exploiting legal loopholes, say campaigners	134
Covid-19: Italy sees protests against mandatory health passports for workplaces	133
Surgeon who repeated false claims about covid and vaccines while suspended is struck off	132
A baby with a scalp plaque	132
Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid	131
NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals	130
Time to improve the clarity of clinical trial reports by including estimands	128
Why I . . . make podcasts	124
What is driving the pandemic related surge in disordered eating?	124
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes	122
Halving gap in healthy life expectancy must be priority for next government, says NHS leader	121
Aduhelm: Approval of Alzheimer’s drug was highly unorthodox, finds report	120
Patient access to medical records: What is happening with the rollout in England?	120
Covid inquiry: Tears and tensions as Sturgeon takes the stand	120
Covid-19 vaccination and postmenopausal bleeding	119
American women’s health “is in a perilous place,” study finds	117
Junior doctors pay dispute: What’s happening across the UK?	116

Stuart Graeme Parker	114
Ian Crerar Menzies	114
UK healthcare provision: the new normal is not good enough	114
Gerald Keen: pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon	111
Nitin Shripad Pradhan	111
Don’t shift the burden on to me	109
An older woman with abdominal pain and ascites	107
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—16 February 2023	104
Guidelines also need to consider what patients and families must—and can—contribute	104
The inefficiency of NHS surgery: beds aren’t “stolen” by the medical team	100
The covid-19 pandemic three years on	99
Bilateral hearing loss and constricted visual fields	98
NewJAMAeditor says she will focus on communication, diversity, and health equity	96
RCGP disputes health secretary’s claim that A&E pressure is due to lack of GP appointments	96
The commercial determinants of health: The mini-budget is a consequence of foundational forces medicine must bear witness to	96
Without junior doctors, there is no NHS	96
Healthcare for asylum seekers: recognise suffering and improve responses	96
The impact of Brexit on health is only just beginning	95
How the US can have guns but fewer gun problems	95