OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Health is 39. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility of a noninvasive heart failure telemonitoring system: A mixed methods study	272
We asked Chat GPT to describe brain fog in chronic pain: What did we learn?	168
Digital mental health intervention for schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders: Protocol for a pragmatic feasibility study of Horyzons-Canada	144
Mental health provider and youth service users’ perspectives regarding implementation of a digital mental health platform for youth: A survey study	134
Machine learning for clustering and classification of early knee osteoarthritis using single-leg standing kinematics	131
Assessing patient confidence in telehealth: Comparing across 17 medical specialties	111
Feasibility of using the Automated Self-Administered 24-hour (ASA-24) dietary assessment tool in older adults	88
Mobile health applications for supporting self-management of oral systemic anticancer therapy in haematological malignancies: A systematic review of acceptability and efficacy	85
Predicting the employment of teledentistry in clinical practice by the Saudi dental community using a theoretical model	85
Usability assessment of a digital tool to enhance person–clinician communication in the memory clinic: An expert evaluation	83
Knowledge mapping of artificial intelligence in prosthodontics during 1995–2024: A bibliometric analysis	81
Unveiling 30 years of research on speech biomarker of dementia using text mining	80
Assessing the healthcare quality issues for digital incident reporting in Sweden: Incident reports analysis	65
Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention in HIV/AIDS risk reduction among long-distance truckers in Kenya: A quasi-experimental study	65
Citizen science in public health: Social Media insights into bedbug infestations, control methods and psychosocial effects in Lusaka, Zambia	65
Trialling the Hailie® smart inhaler with children and young people for asthma management in the United Kingdom: A nested qualitative evaluation	64
Assessing the physiological effect of non-driving-related task performance in conditionally automated driving systems: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol	64
Feasibility and acceptability of a dengue self-monitoring system to reduce treatment delay in Malaysia: A single-centre pilot randomised controlled trial	63
Factors associated with the adoption of a digital health service by patent proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) in Lagos, Nigeria	61
Measuring resting heart rate during daily life using wearable technology: Examining the impact of behavioral context and methodological criteria	59
Effect of patient satisfaction on the utilization of mHealth services by patients with chronic disease	57
Co-creating DigiPer mobile application: A digital peer support tool for managing mental, physical, and social health in serious mental illness	55
Outpatient portal use among pregnant individuals: Cross-sectional, temporal, and cluster analysis of use	54
The impact of limited access to digital health records on doctors and their willingness to adopt electronic health record systems	54
Understanding the associations between eHealth activities and support for alcohol restrictions among drinkers—the roles of alcohol-related health risk awareness and self-efficacy	54

The top 100 most-cited articles on large language models in medicine: A bibliometric analysis	50
The role of AI in the diagnosis of speech and language disorders: A systematic mapping study	49
Wearables are a viable digital health tool for older Indigenous adults living remotely in Australia (research)	48
Israel's first national remote cardiac rehabilitation program: A retrospective analysis	48
Patients and healthcare practitioners’ perspective on the development of a digital interprofessional intervention for COPD	46
Handling of outcome missing data dependent on measured or unmeasured background factors in micro-randomized trial: Simulation and application study	46
Feasibility and acceptability of a novel digital therapeutic combining behavioral and pharmacological treatment for opioid use disorder	45
‘Better see a doctor?’ Status quo of symptom checker apps in Germany: A cross-sectional survey with a mixed-methods design (CHECK.APP)	44
The effectiveness of automated digital health solutions at successfully managing obesity and obesity-associated disorders: A PICO-structured investigation	43
Indecision on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare—A qualitative study of patient perspectives on trust, responsibility and self-determination using AI-CDSS	43
A scoping review of trauma-informed care principles applied in design and technology	42
Digital tools and self-administered home blood tests: A convergent mixed methods pilot study	41
Virtual reality interventions designed to support parents during and throughout the first year after birth: A scoping review	41
The utility of mHealth applications in pressure ulcer management: A scoping review	40
Design, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative intelligence information management system for premature infants	39
HYPO-CHEAT’s aggregated weekly visualisations of risk reduce real world hypoglycaemia	39