OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Global Health is 52. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries	713
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health	421
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	338
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures	260
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data	227
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long	209
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	198
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care	192
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India	183
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review	172
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities	146
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos	137
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals	134
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis	128
Creating health by building peace	127
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman	122
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories	120
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health	116
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review	113
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study	102
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support	102
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives	100
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership	97
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context	96
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia	95

Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management	93
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response	91
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic	88
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum	77
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana	72
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy	72
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia	71
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services	70
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region	67
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis	65
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa	64
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal	64
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study	64
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention	63
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health	62
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it	62
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	62
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse	62
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact	62
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem	60
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review	59
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax	59
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population	58
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	57
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries	56
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union	55
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic	52
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study	52