OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ-British Medical Journal is 88. 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
Brexit three years on: Health and the NHS are still suffering	3129
Methenamine is as effective as antibiotics at preventing urinary tract infections	1022
GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months	527
Ask the consultant: old age psychiatry	480
Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal	474
Doctors should ask patients about gambling, draft guidance recommends	449
Cryptic Christmas crossword	433
The BMJ Awards 2021: “Landmark” study on dexamethasone wins paper of the year	361
Doctor’s voluntary erasure to avoid fitness to practise hearing can’t be challenged legally, judge rules	345
E-cigarette maker Juul will pay $462m to settle deceptive marketing allegations in six US states	330
Judge stops attempt to sue companies over harms of pregnancy test in the absence of evidence	329
Halt patient access to medical records if there are safety concerns, BMA tells GPs	304
Sixty seconds on . . . excellence awards	297
Poverty is behind deterioration in health in under 5s in the UK, find researchers	294
Vaccination to prevent mpox	285
Covid-19: Silencing health workers, researchers, and journalists caused unnecessary deaths, says Amnesty	279
CQC is reviewing GP service provider’s use of less qualified staff after BBC investigation	265
Children lack access to routine dental care	264
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended	264
Roundup from the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2023	261
Covid-19: Omicron drives weekly record high in global infections	256
Junior doctors’ pay dispute in England: Government and BMA agree to look at mediation	249
Helen Salisbury: Risk and responsibility when working with physician associates	246
BMA calls for investigation into debacle over covid and flu vaccinations	237
Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report	235

Government’s “neglect” of GP workforce has made services unsafe, conference hears	233
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk	229
February top picks: new beginnings	221
Dystonia	218
Mortality risk in transgender people is twice as high as in cisgender people, data show	213
Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed	213
Pension changes won’t stem doctor exodus, warns BMA	208
At the heart of communities: the consultant geriatrician	206
Heliotrope rash	194
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	187
Gas in the kidney	185
The NHS crisis is not an equal crisis	182
How Botswana discovered the omicron variant	182
Helen Salisbury: Where have our GPs gone?	179
Judge rebukes expert witness in injured baby case for series of failings	176
Sixty seconds on . . . xylazine	174
Charles Martin-Bates	174
Three ways genomics is already helping NHS patients—and three ways it will soon	171
David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic	166
Winter is coming—but will the gloomiest forecasts come to pass?	162
Author’s reply to Dawson	161
Formula milk companies are exploiting legal loopholes, say campaigners	159
Covid-19: Italy sees protests against mandatory health passports for workplaces	158
A baby with a scalp plaque	158
Surgeon who repeated false claims about covid and vaccines while suspended is struck off	151
NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals	151
Time to improve the clarity of clinical trial reports by including estimands	149
What is driving the pandemic related surge in disordered eating?	145
Why I . . . make podcasts	136
Halving gap in healthy life expectancy must be priority for next government, says NHS leader	136
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes	136
Covid inquiry: Tears and tensions as Sturgeon takes the stand	134
American women’s health “is in a perilous place,” study finds	132
Covid-19 vaccination and postmenopausal bleeding	132
Junior doctors pay dispute: What’s happening across the UK?	130
Stuart Graeme Parker	125
UK healthcare provision: the new normal is not good enough	123
Ian Crerar Menzies	121
Nitin Shripad Pradhan	115
Gerald Keen: pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon	115
Don’t shift the burden on to me	113
Guidelines also need to consider what patients and families must—and can—contribute	111
An older woman with abdominal pain and ascites	111
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—16 February 2023	108
The inefficiency of NHS surgery: beds aren’t “stolen” by the medical team	105
The covid-19 pandemic three years on	105
Without junior doctors, there is no NHS	104
Bilateral hearing loss and constricted visual fields	104
The commercial determinants of health: The mini-budget is a consequence of foundational forces medicine must bear witness to	103
NewJAMAeditor says she will focus on communication, diversity, and health equity	102

Healthcare for asylum seekers: recognise suffering and improve responses	101
RCGP disputes health secretary’s claim that A&E pressure is due to lack of GP appointments	100
The impact of Brexit on health is only just beginning	100
How the US can have guns but fewer gun problems	98
Hazel Stibbe	97
Examining our failings	94
Choices that fail health and wellbeing	93
Clinical research: What will be the effect of closing down “unviable” trials?	90
Communication around the social determinants of health: use the “devil’s music” for emotional appeal	90
Asylum seekers’ health suffers from “unsafe” UK accommodation, report claims	90
Seven days in medicine: 23 February to 1 March	89
Guidance on cow’s milk allergy may be fuelling overdiagnosis in infants, study finds	88
Covid-19: High Court overturns decision to ban GP from posting views on pandemic on social media	88