OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Internal and Emergency Medicine is 25. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Education to increase efficiency in senior emergency medicine residents: too little, too late?	392
Food contamination and cardiovascular disease: a narrative review	82
Estimated plasma volume status adds prognostic value to hemodynamic parameters in advanced heart failure	67
Correction to: A 39‑year‑old woman with non‑follicular pustules on targetoid plaques during treatment for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer	62
Prevalence of hypothermia and its associated clinical and biological features (such as thrombocytopenia) in emergency department patients: a case series	52
Minimal is not minor also in patients with mild traumatic brain injury on oral direct anticoagulant therapy	46
Appropriateness of blood transfusions in the ED—is it all about the money?	46
Outcomes for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction in the United States: insights from the National Inpatient Sample	45
Bidirectional association between pneumonia and intestinal infection: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database	44
NAFLD determined by Dallas Steatosis Index is associated with poor outcomes in COVID-19 pneumonia: a cohort study	38
PEGALUS and other patient predictive scores of COVID-19 patients	38
Correction to: A 61-years-old man with facial swelling and severe pain	38
Sclerosing mesenteritis: a rare disease involving the adipose tissue of the bowel mesentery	37
Hospitalization for carbon monoxide poisoning is associated with substance use and mood disorders	36
Connecting the dots in a case of multiple lymphadenopathies: IgG4-related disease or Castleman disease?	34
Frequency of emergency medical service contacts after hospital admissions	34
Recommendations for the management of hyperkalemia in patients receiving renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibitors	32
Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin	31
‘E-cigarette smoking’ is a misleading term: a critical review of its use in academic literature	31
A nomogram based on trauma-induced coagulopathy for predicting hospital mortality in multi-trauma patients: a retrospective study	28
Association between time to geriatric ward admission and change in functional status in older adults after an emergency department visit: a prospective cohort study	26
Letter to the editor “Improving acute care outcome in internal medicine: the role of early stabilization and intermediate care unit”	26
Radiological lung sequelae, functional status and symptoms in older patients 3 and 6 months after hospitalization for COVID-19 pneumonia	26
Trends in mortality related to venous thromboembolism in the European Union, 2012–2020	25
Remdesivir-induced bradycardia in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection: a possible vagally-mediated mechanism	25

Evaluation of a patient-centered integrated care program for individuals with frequent hospital readmissions and multimorbidity	25
Cell and cytokine analyses from bronchoalveolar lavage in non-critical COVID-19 pneumonia	25