OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Global Health is 47. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it	632
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response	159
Creating health by building peace	157
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study	143
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population	139
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling	132
When disaster meets conflict: Bridging health, nutrition and equity in Myanmar	131
The nexus of artificial intelligence and virology: transformative but with potential perils	131
Transition of obesity in India, 2006–2021: a state-wise investigation from an equity perspective	113
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health	98
Co-creating a decision-making framework for primary healthcare models in conflict-affected Cameroon and Nigeria	92
Evidence-based opportunities to address pandemic drivers via the Pandemic Agreement: lessons from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	87
Impact analysis and evaluation of the Ethiopian Neonatal Network	86
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India	79
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study	77
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review	76
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax	76
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study	75
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem	73
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context	71
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data	68
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review	65
Effect of mass transfers of enrollees from liquidated health insurance companies on the financial sustainability of health insurance: an ecological study in the Colombian health system	65
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos	64
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia	64

Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services	61
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis	61
Unignorable burden of mental health disorders among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for urgent action	61
Demanding solidarity, not salvation: sex work and global health	59
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries	57
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support	56
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy	56
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership	53
Feasibility of prehospital telemedicine for paediatric emergencies: a cluster-randomised pilot trial in Karachi, Pakistan	52
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health	52
Implementation pathways of a health services delivery redesign model to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in Kenya	51
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals	51
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana	51
Epidemiology of Treponema pallidum , Chlamydia trachomatis , Neisseria gonorrhoeae<	51
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories	50
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic	50
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	49
Cost-effectiveness of modified fully oral 9-month treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Moldova	49
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse	48
School-based behaviour change intervention to reduce ultra-processed food consumption among adolescents: evidence from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in India	48
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum	47
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	47