OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance is 31. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 News and Its Association With the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults: Cross-sectional Study	220
The Impact of Wireless Emergency Alerts on a Floating Population in Seoul, South Korea: Panel Data Analysis	112
Risk Factors Associated with a Dengue Fever Outbreak in Islamabad, Pakistan: Case-Control Study	82
Correction: Relationship Between Protein Intake in Each Traditional Meal and Physical Activity: Cross-sectional Study	77
Identifying Communities at Risk for COVID-19–Related Burden Across 500 US Cities and Within New York City: Unsupervised Learning of the Coprevalence of Health Indicators	76
A Spatiotemporal Solution to Control COVID-19 Transmission at the Community Scale for Returning to Normalcy: COVID-19 Symptom Onset Risk Spatiotemporal Analysis	73
Joint Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone on Asthmatic Symptoms: Prospective Cohort Study	63
Association Between Physical Activity and the Risk of Burnout in Health Care Workers: Systematic Review	60
The Effects of MyChoices and LYNX Mobile Apps on HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use by Young US Sexual Minority Men: Results From a National Randomized Controlled Trial	60
Exploring the Association Between Structural Racism and Mental Health: Geospatial and Machine Learning Analysis	57
Sex and Age Differences in the Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Cardiovascular Health According to Household Income Among Mongolian Adults: Cross-Sectional Study	55
A Nationwide Physical Activity Intervention for 654,500 Adults in Singapore: Cost-Utility Analysis	47
Social Determinants of Health Phenotypes and Cardiometabolic Condition Prevalence Among Patients in a Large Academic Health System: Latent Class Analysis	47
Characteristics of In-Flight Medical Emergencies on a Commercial Airline in Mainland China: Retrospective Study	46
Decomposition of Heart Failure Prevalence and Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: Medicare-Based Partitioning Analysis	46
Ethical Considerations for Wastewater Surveillance Conducted by the US Department of Defense	45
Profile and Determinants for Complications of Imported Malaria in 5 Chinese Provinces From 2014 to 2021: Retrospective Analysis	44
Promoting Health Literacy in the Workplace Among Civil Servants: Cross-Sectional Study	41
Population-Level Distribution, Risk Factors, and Burden of Mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years Attributable to Major Noncommunicable Diseases in Western Europe (1990-2021): Ecological Analysi	40
Considerations for Future Research and Methodological Clarifications on Smoking Behavior Change and Heart Failure Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes	40
Spatiotemporal panorama of deaths from external causes in Brazil: an ecological and population-based study of a 23-year historical series (Preprint)	39
Development of an Integrated Surveillance System to Improve Preparedness for Arbovirus Outbreaks in a Dengue Endemic Setting: Descriptive Study	38
Association Between Fatty Liver Index and Incidence of Cataract Surgery in Individuals Aged 50 Years and Older Based on the Korean National Health Insurance Service-Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS	37
Liver Cancer Mortality Disparities at a Fine Scale Among Subpopulations in China: Nationwide Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Trends	37
Trends in Prescription of Stimulants and Narcoleptic Drugs in Switzerland: Longitudinal Health Insurance Claims Analysis for the Years 2014-2021	36

AI Governance: A Challenge for Public Health	35
HIV Prevention and Treatment Interventions for Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in Canada: Scoping Systematic Review	34
Gastroenteritis Forecasting Assessing the Use of Web and Electronic Health Record Data With a Linear and a Nonlinear Approach: Comparison Study	34
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Health Status and Behaviors of Adults in Korea: National Cross-sectional Web-Based Self-report Survey	32
Comparison of Different Reverse Transcriptase–Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based Methods for Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Exploratory Study	32
Temporal Trends of Asthma Among Children in the Western Pacific Region From 1990 to 2045: Longitudinal Observational Study	31
Estimating the Epidemic Size of Superspreading Coronavirus Outbreaks in Real Time: Quantitative Study	31