OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Global Health is 53. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities	744
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	680
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China	356
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman	251
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long	248
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region	198
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it	195
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse	175
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem	173
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal	164
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study	148
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health	141
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis	121
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review	121
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries	120
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study	119
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia	119
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support	117
Relative efficiency of demand creation strategies to increase voluntary medical male circumcision uptake: a study conducted as part of a randomised controlled trial in Zimbabwe	114
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review	111
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa	109
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax	101
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention	100
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures	94
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership	94

Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population	89
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial	88
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services	87
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia	86
Creating health by building peace	86
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context	84
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos	83
Flashing red lights: the global implications of COVID-19 vaccination passports	79
Recent sex ratio at birth in China	74
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives	67
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact	66
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana	65
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union	65
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response	65
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals	65
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care	62
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India	59
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health	58
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis	58
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health	57
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum	57
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19	56
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy	56
Unravelling ‘low-resource settings’: a systematic scoping review with qualitative content analysis	55
Performance management in complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework for health systems	54
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic	54
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data	54
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic	53
Health spending and vaccination coverage in low-income countries	53