OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Global Health is 50. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health	496
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it	411
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review	278
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories	226
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	225
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem	219
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response	197
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal	181
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study	155
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy	150
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study	149
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context	146
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries	134
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact	132
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos	119
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review	116
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long	112
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India	109
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support	109
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care	106
Creating health by building peace	102
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data	100
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region	80
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study	78
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services	77

A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low- and middle-income se	76
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population	75
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health	74
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management	73
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling	72
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana	72
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis	72
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic	70
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse	67
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum	66
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health	65
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review	64
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals	64
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax	63
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa	63
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman	62
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	60
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries	57
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia	55
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	54
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership	53
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union	53
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis	51
Global health at a crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to outbreaks, conflicts and humanitarian crises	51
Mpox exposes fundamental obstacles for vaccinating children in outbreaks	50
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya	50