OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ERJ Open Research is 26. 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
A comprehensive evaluation of murine and humanex vivocultured alveolar macrophages	145
The long-term effects of insulin use in incident cystic fibrosis-related diabetes: a target trial emulated using longitudinal national registry data	103
The AWESCORE, a patient-reported outcome measure: development, feasibility, reliability, validity and responsiveness for adults with cystic fibrosis	81
Antitrypsin deficiency: still more to learn about the lung after 60 years	78
Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in patients with haemoptysis: the POPEIHE study	55
Proteins associated with preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm)	51
Achieving adherence to positive airway pressure in commercial drivers using an employer-mandated remote management programme	49
Corticosteroid therapy in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a modified Delphi survey	47
Spirometry at different Latin-American altitudes: A Global Lung Function Initiative project	46
BreathEase: rationale, design and recruitment of a randomised trial and embedded mixed-methods study of a multiprofessional breathlessness service in early palliative care	40
Comparison of different sets of immunological tests to identify treatable immunodeficiencies in adult bronchiectasis patients	39
Influence of sex, season and environmental air quality on experimental human pneumococcal carriage acquisition: a retrospective cohort analysis	38
Uncontrolled asthma from childhood to young adulthood associates with airflow obstruction	37
Prednisolone for COPD exacerbations: time for a rethink	37
Dysglycaemia among tuberculosis patients without known diabetes in a low-endemic setting	37
Differential cardiopulmonary haemodynamic phenotypes in PASC-related exercise intolerance	36
A survey of UK respiratory specialists’ opinion on the management of chronic cough	35
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the right primary somatosensory cortex increases cough reflex sensitivity: a pilot randomised controlled crossover trial	34
Reflecting real-world patients with mesothelioma in research: an interim report of baseline characteristics from the ASSESS-meso cohort	33
Dual CFTR modulator therapy efficacy in the real world: lessons for the future	31
Comparison of two scores for short-term outcomes in patients with COPD exacerbation in the emergency department: the Ottawa COPD Risk Scale and the DECAF score	31
A double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial investigating the effects of lesogaberan on the objective cough frequency and capsaicin-evoked coughs in patients with refractory chronic cough	31
Moderate-to-severe ARDS: COVID-19 patients compared to influenza patients for ventilator parameters and mortality	31
Increasing airway obstruction through life following bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a meta-analysis	28
Association of patient-reported outcome measures with lung function and mortality in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a prospective cohort study	26

Triple therapy in COPD: understanding the data	26
Long-term incident severe outcomes in a prospective cohort of non-obese obstructive sleep apnoea patients free of comorbidities at inclusion	26
Clinical impact of routine sleep assessment by peripheral arterial tonometry in patients with COPD	26