OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine is 24. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Development of a generalised tool for evaluating success of clinical practice guidelines implementation (A-GIST)	195
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture	142
Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID	131
Proposed framework for unifying disease definitions in guideline development	79
FDA’s dilemma with the aducanumab approval: public pressure and hope, surrogate markers and efficacy, and possible next steps	76
Decision architecture randomisation: extremely efficient clinical trials that preserve clinician and patient choice?	63
Examining the layered health literacy demands in low-value care contexts	56
How to best convey continuous outcomes in patient decision aids	53
Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review	47
Evolution of evidence on overall survival benefits of cancer drugs included on the national reimbursement drug list of China, 2005–2022: an observational study	47
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	44
Gender and geographical bias in the editorial decision-making process of biomedical journals: a case-control study	39
Associations between device-measured and self-reported physical activity and common mental disorders: Findings from a large-scale prospective cohort study	37
Measuring progress in institutionalising evidence-informed priority-setting in the Indian healthcare system: an application using the iProSE scale	37
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines	34
Global considerations for informed consent with shared decision-making in the digital age	29
Rapid reviews methods series: assessing the appropriateness of conducting a rapid review	28
Patient-reported outcomes and acupuncture-related adverse events are overlooked in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study	26
Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice	26
Exploring the diverse definitions of ‘evidence’: a scoping review	26
Reconsidering the role of tramadol in chronic pain management	26
Ataluren for Duchenne: how politics and social pressure undermined evidence-based decisions	25
Deceptive shifts in cancer stage distribution	25
Acupuncture for acute migraine attacks in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Assessing proposals to update established screening strategies	24

Ambiguity in care delivery terminology: implications that affect pragmatic clinical trials using non-pharmacological interventions