OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ-British Medical Journal is 89. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brexit three years on: Health and the NHS are still suffering	3049
Methenamine is as effective as antibiotics at preventing urinary tract infections	990
GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months	478
Ask the consultant: old age psychiatry	465
Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal	462
Doctors should ask patients about gambling, draft guidance recommends	431
Cryptic Christmas crossword	426
The BMJ Awards 2021: “Landmark” study on dexamethasone wins paper of the year	346
Doctor’s voluntary erasure to avoid fitness to practise hearing can’t be challenged legally, judge rules	342
E-cigarette maker Juul will pay $462m to settle deceptive marketing allegations in six US states	326
Judge stops attempt to sue companies over harms of pregnancy test in the absence of evidence	318
Halt patient access to medical records if there are safety concerns, BMA tells GPs	299
Sixty seconds on . . . excellence awards	291
Poverty is behind deterioration in health in under 5s in the UK, find researchers	280
Vaccination to prevent mpox	269
Covid-19: Silencing health workers, researchers, and journalists caused unnecessary deaths, says Amnesty	268
CQC is reviewing GP service provider’s use of less qualified staff after BBC investigation	264
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended	262
Children lack access to routine dental care	261
The BMJ Awards 2021: Critical care team of the year	253
Roundup from the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2023	250
Covid-19: Omicron drives weekly record high in global infections	249
Covid-19: How Kerala kept itself above water in India’s devastating second wave	245
Junior doctors’ pay dispute in England: Government and BMA agree to look at mediation	240
Helen Salisbury: Risk and responsibility when working with physician associates	232

An international medical student’s perspective	232
BMA calls for investigation into debacle over covid and flu vaccinations	232
Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report	228
Government’s “neglect” of GP workforce has made services unsafe, conference hears	226
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk	224
February top picks: new beginnings	217
Dystonia	213
Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed	211
Mortality risk in transgender people is twice as high as in cisgender people, data show	208
Pension changes won’t stem doctor exodus, warns BMA	204
At the heart of communities: the consultant geriatrician	198
Julian André Bradley	196
Heliotrope rash	188
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	185
Gas in the kidney	179
The NHS crisis is not an equal crisis	175
How Botswana discovered the omicron variant	174
Helen Salisbury: Where have our GPs gone?	167
Judge rebukes expert witness in injured baby case for series of failings	165
Charles Wakeley	163
Sixty seconds on . . . xylazine	162
Three ways genomics is already helping NHS patients—and three ways it will soon	161
Charles Martin-Bates	161
David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic	158
Author’s reply to Dawson	154
Winter is coming—but will the gloomiest forecasts come to pass?	154
Formula milk companies are exploiting legal loopholes, say campaigners	151
Covid-19: Italy sees protests against mandatory health passports for workplaces	148
A baby with a scalp plaque	146
Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid	145
Surgeon who repeated false claims about covid and vaccines while suspended is struck off	145
NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals	141
Time to improve the clarity of clinical trial reports by including estimands	134
What is driving the pandemic related surge in disordered eating?	132
Why I . . . make podcasts	131
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes	130
Halving gap in healthy life expectancy must be priority for next government, says NHS leader	128
Patient access to medical records: What is happening with the rollout in England?	128
Covid-19 vaccination and postmenopausal bleeding	124
Covid inquiry: Tears and tensions as Sturgeon takes the stand	124
American women’s health “is in a perilous place,” study finds	122
Junior doctors pay dispute: What’s happening across the UK?	121
Stuart Graeme Parker	120
UK healthcare provision: the new normal is not good enough	112
Ian Crerar Menzies	110
Don’t shift the burden on to me	108
Gerald Keen: pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon	108
Nitin Shripad Pradhan	108
An older woman with abdominal pain and ascites	106
Guidelines also need to consider what patients and families must—and can—contribute	105

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—16 February 2023	103
The inefficiency of NHS surgery: beds aren’t “stolen” by the medical team	102
The covid-19 pandemic three years on	102
Bilateral hearing loss and constricted visual fields	101
Without junior doctors, there is no NHS	100
The commercial determinants of health: The mini-budget is a consequence of foundational forces medicine must bear witness to	100
NewJAMAeditor says she will focus on communication, diversity, and health equity	99
Healthcare for asylum seekers: recognise suffering and improve responses	99
RCGP disputes health secretary’s claim that A&E pressure is due to lack of GP appointments	98
The impact of Brexit on health is only just beginning	97
How the US can have guns but fewer gun problems	94
Hazel Stibbe	91
Examining our failings	90
Choices that fail health and wellbeing	89