OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Diagnostics is 79. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Age-Related Changes in the Temperature of the Lumbar Spine Measured by Passive Microwave Radiometry (MWR)	582
Overexpression of CDC20 Confer a Poorer Prognosis in Bladder Cancer Identified by Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis	316
Digitally Guided Modified Intentional Replantation for a Tooth with Hopeless Periodontal Prognosis: A Case Report	254
Lung Ultrasound Versus Chest Radiography for Acute Heart Failure: Impact of Heart Failure History and Pleural Effusion	230
Automated Assessment of Word- and Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility in Developmental Motor Speech Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation	227
Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Otitis Media Using Blood Eosinophil Levels	190
Diagnostic Value of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte, Platelet-to-Lymphocyte, and Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte Ratios for the Assessment of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Patients with Undifferentiated Inflammatory Arthri	183
Comparison of EWMA, MA, and MQ Under a Unified PBRTQC Framework for Thyroid and Coagulation Tests	175
A Statistical Approach to the Diagnosis and Prediction of HCC Using CK19 and Glypican 3 Biomarkers	165
Development of an RT-LAMP Assay for Detecting tet(M) in Enterococcus Species: Enhancing AMR Surveillance Within the One Health Sectors	165
Coronary Arteries Aneurysms: A Case-Based Literature Review	162
Deep Learning Network with Spatial Attention Module for Detecting Acute Bilirubin Encephalopathy in Newborns Based on Multimodal MRI	156
Pre-Analytical Factors Affecting Extracellular DNA in Saliva	154
VEXAS Syndrome: A Novelty in MDS Landscape	152
Microduplication 3p26.3p24.3 and 4q34.3q35.2 Microdeletion Identified in a Patient with Developmental Delay Associated with Brain Malformation	148
Clinical and Pathological Profiles of Vertebral Bone Metastases from Endometrial Cancers: Evidence from a Twenty-Year Case Series	140
Chest Pain of Atypical Cause in a Young Man	139
Ultrasound and Clinical Alterations in the Foot of Children with Obesity and Diabetes	136
Point-of-Care Echocardiographic Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients with Pulmonary Embolism	136
Primary Chronic Sclerosing Osteomyelitis: A New Diagnostic Tool	136
The Role of Checkpoint Inhibitor Expression Directly on Exfoliated Cells from Bladder Cancer: A Narrative Review	133
Can Perfusion-Based Brain Tissue Oxygenation MRI Support the Understanding of Cerebral Abscesses In Vivo?	132
Deep-Learning-Based Image Denoising in Imaging of Urolithiasis: Assessment of Image Quality and Comparison to State-of-the-Art Iterative Reconstructions	130
Recent Advances in the Therapeutic Management of Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis	127
Impact of Voxel Normalization on a Machine Learning-Based Method: A Study on Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Diagnosis Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT)	127

Exploiting the Potential of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Rapid Diagnosis Tests (RDTs): Nanoparticle-Antibody Conjugates and Color Development Strategies	125
A Logistic Regression Model for Predicting the Risk of Subsequent Surgery among Patients with Newly Diagnosed Crohn’s Disease Using a Brute Force Method	124
Feasibility of Optical Genome Mapping from Placental and Umbilical Cord Sampled after Spontaneous or Therapeutic Pregnancy Termination	123
Multi-Contrast Differentiation by Dual-Energy Spectral CT Angiography in a Patient with Pulmonary Barium Granulomas	116
Urine Biomarkers in the Management of Adult Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction: A Systematic Review	114
Changing Laboratory Practice for Early Detection of a Fetal Inflammatory Response: A Contemporary Approach	108
Comparative Performance of Autoencoders and Traditional Machine Learning Algorithms in Clinical Data Analysis for Predicting Post-Staged GKRS Tumor Dynamics	108
Diagnostic Accuracy of the LabTurbo QuadAIO Common Flu Assay for Detecting Influenza A Virus, Influenza B Virus, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2	107
The Association between Specimen Neuromuscular Characteristics and Urinary Incontinence after Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy	107
Brixia Chest X-ray Score, Laboratory Parameters and Vaccination Status for Prediction of Mortality in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients	106
Lung Ultrasonography Is an Acceptable Imaging Modality to Diagnose COVID-19 and Effectively Correlates with HRCT Chest—A Prospective Study	105
Stepwise Implementation of 2D Synthesized Screening Mammography and Its Effect on Stereotactic Biopsy of Microcalcifications	105
Bleeding-Source Exploration in Subdural Hematoma: Observational Study on the Usefulness of Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography	103
Expression Analysis of miR-519a-3p and miR-379-5p in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Combined Experimental and Bioinformatic Approach	102
Automated Aneurysm Boundary Detection and Volume Estimation Using Deep Learning	100
A Stepwise Anatomy-Based Protocol for Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: Educational Tool with Broad Clinical Utility	100
Test–Retest Reliability and Inter-Scanner Reproducibility of Improved Spinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging	99
Evaluation of Respiratory Conditions in Individuals Undergoing Rapid Maxillary Expansion: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study	98
Investigation of Ocular Blood Flow in Males with Metabolic Syndrome	98
Gender Difference in Orthostatic Vascular Stiffness Increase in Young Subjects	95
Clinical Yield of Colonoscopy in Evaluation of Young Women with Constipation: An Age- and Gender-Based Analysis	94
The Train-Line Pattern on Duplex Ultrasound Helps Differentiate Intramural Thrombus from Atheromatous Plaque in Common Carotid Artery Dissection	92
Early Alterations in De Novo Parkinson’s Disease Revealed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Preliminary Study	92
Early-Branched Short Renal Arteries Are False Multiple Renal Arteries	92
Selective Angiographic Roadmap Analysis (SARA) of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Feeding Arteries for Transarterial Chemoembolization	92
16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis of V6–V8 Region Provides Limited Advantage in Diagnosis of Chronic Prostatitis	92
Anatomical Relationship of the Mylohyoid Ridge, Lingual Concavity, and Mandibular Canal: A Retrospective CBCT Study	91
Respiratory Rehabilitation Index (R2I): Unsupervised Clustering Approach to Identify COPD Subgroups Associated with Rehabilitation Outcomes	90
Bone Mass, Microarchitecture, and Morphometric Insights on a Right Unilateral Bifid Mandibular Condyle: A Micro-CT Analysis Report and Literature Review	90
Nanopore 16S-Full Length and ITS Sequencing for Microbiota Identification in Intra-Abdominal Infections	90
17β-Estradiol Effects in Skeletal Muscle: A 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) Study of Young Females during Early Follicular (EF) and Peri-Ovulation (PO) Phases	89
Reply to Fujimoto, T. Comment on “Okaniwa, S. How Can We Manage Gallbladder Lesions by Transabdominal Ultrasound? Diagnostics 2021, 11, 784”	89
Validation of Diagnostic Accuracy and Disease Severity Correlation of Chest Computed Tomography Severity Scores in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia	88
Neurofibromatosis Symptom-Lacking B-Cell Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Only an NF1 Gene Pathogenic Variant	87
Diagnostic Utility of Double-Echo Steady-State (DESS) MRI for Fracture and Bone Marrow Edema Detection in Adolescent Lumbar Spondylolysis	87
Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization and Its Associated Factors among Chronic Liver Disease Patients in a Teaching Hospital in Northeastern Malaysia	87
Continuous Glucose Monitoring—New Diagnostic Tool in Complex Pathophysiological Disorder of Glucose Metabolism in Children and Adolescents with Obesity	86
Non-Invasive Biomarkers and Breath Tests for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Chronic Liver Diseases	85
Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) in the Diagnosis of a Diaphragm Dysfunction	85
Using Point of Care Rapid Cortisol Measurement During Adrenal Venous Sampling in Primary Hyperaldosteronism	85
Diagnosis of an Acute Anterior Wall Infarction in Dual-Energy CT	84
Diagnostic Performance of Visionix VX120+ Platform for Dry Eye Screening	84
The Accuracy of Intraoral Scanners in Maxillary Defects with Different Model Variations	83
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Myocardial Strain Assessment Correlates with Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Pectus Excavatum	82
Enhanced Positioning Strategies to Reduce Pneumothorax in CT-Guided Lung Biopsies	82
Dynamic Perviousness: A Novel Imaging Marker for Predicting Mechanical Thrombectomy Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke	81
Computed Tomography Confirms Increased Left Atrial Volume in Patients with Bayés Syndrome Referred for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation	81
BRAF Detection in FNAC Combined with Semi-Quantitative 99mTc-MIBI Technique and AI Model, an Economic and Efficient Predicting Tool for Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules	80
Comparison of Two X-ray Analyses for Estimating the Prognosis of Eruption of Impacted Mandibular Third Molars	80
Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in WNT Genes in Patients with Non-Syndromic Orofacial Clefts in a Polish Population	80

Human Papillomavirus Infection of the Oropharyngeal and Laryngeal Squamous Papilloma: Disparities in Prevalence and Characteristics	80
Artefacts in Hysterectomies with a Special Focus on Vascular Pseudoinvasion	80
Prediction Value of Initial Serum Levels of SERPINA3 in Intracranial Pressure and Long-Term Neurological Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury	80
Circulating IgG Fragments for Gastric Cancer and Esophageal Cancer	79
Utilizing Aerobic Capacity Data for EDSS Score Estimation in Multiple Sclerosis: A Machine Learning Approach	79
Recovery from Severe COVID-19 Is an Independent Predictor of Electrocardiographic Abnormal P-Wave Axis	79