OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Internal and Emergency Medicine is 26. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A 57-year-old woman with unexplained refractory shock	251
Primary signet ring cell carcinoma of the lung in patient with superior vena cava syndrome and lymphangitic carcinomatosis: a case report	87
Hospitalization for carbon monoxide poisoning is associated with substance use and mood disorders	73
Strengthening team cohesion in the emergency department through a color-coded well-being check-in: are you ‘ready to roll?’	58
A nomogram based on trauma-induced coagulopathy for predicting hospital mortality in multi-trauma patients: a retrospective study	48
Food contamination and cardiovascular disease: a narrative review	45
Acute dyspnea in the emergency department: a clinical review	41
Connecting the dots in a case of multiple lymphadenopathies: IgG4-related disease or Castleman disease?	41
COVID-19 vaccines and thrombosis	41
Prognostic value of respiratory parameters for COVID-19 patients in the emergency department: results from the EC-COVID study	38
Factors triggering familial mediterranean fever attacks, do they really exist?	37
Trends in mortality related to venous thromboembolism in the European Union, 2012–2020	37
Message from the New Editor-in-Chief of Internal and Emergency Medicine	37
Sclerosing mesenteritis: a rare disease involving the adipose tissue of the bowel mesentery	35
Facing overcrowding in the emergency departments	33
Education to increase efficiency in senior emergency medicine residents: too little, too late?	33
Pharmaceutical patenting in the European Union: reform or riddance	31
Intravenous paracetamol compared to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids for acute pain in emergency departments	31
Competitive interaction between smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for explaining renal function reduction in hypertensive patients	30
Sex differences in the association between d-dimer and the incidence of acute kidney injury in patients admitted with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a retrospective observational study	30
Non-invasive fibrosis markers are useful in predicting the presence of varices in compensated cirrhosis and variceal bleeding in decompensated cirrhosis	29
“Large-vessel vasculitis following the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine”: comment	28
Frequency of emergency medical service contacts after hospital admissions	27
Does CHA2DS2-VASc score predict mortality in chronic kidney disease?	27
The Crystalloid Liberal or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis (CLOVERS) randomized clinical trial	27

Efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants in older adults with atrial fibrillation: a prospective single-centre cohort study