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
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
Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review	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