OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Health is 33. 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
Chronic pain self-management in middle-aged and older adults: A collective intelligence approach to identifying barriers and user needs in eHealth interventions	215
Design, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative intelligence information management system for premature infants	133
HYPO-CHEAT’s aggregated weekly visualisations of risk reduce real world hypoglycaemia	123
Knowledge and awareness of dental trauma and the ToothSOS mobile application among medical, nursing, and pharmacy students in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study	114
Patient and clinician experiences of remote consultation during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A service evaluation	102
Predicting non-initiation of care and dropout in a blended care CBT intervention: Impact of early digital engagement, sociodemographic, and clinical factors	83
Italian nurses’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic through social media: A longitudinal mixed methods study of Internet posts	73
Outpatient portal use among pregnant individuals: Cross-sectional, temporal, and cluster analysis of use	69
Patients and healthcare practitioners’ perspective on the development of a digital interprofessional intervention for COPD	67
Feasibility and acceptability of a novel digital therapeutic combining behavioral and pharmacological treatment for opioid use disorder	63
Assessing the physiological effect of non-driving-related task performance in conditionally automated driving systems: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol	63
Handling of outcome missing data dependent on measured or unmeasured background factors in micro-randomized trial: Simulation and application study	62
Interactive decision aid on therapy decision making for patients with chronic kidney disease: A prospective exploratory pilot study	61
Revolutionising healthcare with artificial intelligence: A bibliometric analysis of 40 years of progress in health systems	58
Wearables are a viable digital health tool for older Indigenous adults living remotely in Australia (research)	57
Israel's first national remote cardiac rehabilitation program: A retrospective analysis	57
Malignancy pattern analysis of breast ultrasound images using clinical features and a graph convolutional network	56
Virtual reality interventions designed to support parents during and throughout the first year after birth: A scoping review	52
Indecision on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare—A qualitative study of patient perspectives on trust, responsibility and self-determination using AI-CDSS	51
‘Better see a doctor?’ Status quo of symptom checker apps in Germany: A cross-sectional survey with a mixed-methods design (CHECK.APP)	49
Unveiling 30 years of research on speech biomarker of dementia using text mining	47
Exploring how health-related advertising interference contributes to the development of cyberchondria: A stressor–strain–outcome approach	47
Feasibility and acceptability of a dengue self-monitoring system to reduce treatment delay in Malaysia: A single-centre pilot randomised controlled trial	45
The effectiveness of automated digital health solutions at successfully managing obesity and obesity-associated disorders: A PICO-structured investigation	44
Feasibility of a noninvasive heart failure telemonitoring system: A mixed methods study	41

Reliability of ChatGPT for performing triage task in the emergency department using the Korean Triage and Acuity Scale	41
Influence of social and psychological factors on smartphone usage during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Comparison of artificial intelligence-assisted informed consent obtained before coronary angiography with the conventional method: Medical competence and ethical assessment	39
Consumer opinion on the use of machine learning in healthcare settings: A qualitative systematic review	39
Telemedicine in civil protection: A controlled simulation study for the analysis of patient care	39
We asked Chat GPT to describe brain fog in chronic pain: What did we learn?	39
Digital mental health intervention for schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders: Protocol for a pragmatic feasibility study of Horyzons-Canada	38
Mental health provider and youth service users’ perspectives regarding implementation of a digital mental health platform for youth: A survey study	35
Assessing technology usage in relation to the quality of life of autistic children	33
A double-edged sword?: Digitalization, health disparities, and the paradoxical case of e-pharmacy in Ghana	33