OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine is 2. 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
Proposed framework for unifying disease definitions in guideline development	81
Correspondence on “How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID” by Høeget al	80
Caring without boundaries: delimiting shared decision-making	72
Digitally enabled decentralised research: opportunities to improve the efficiency of clinical trials and observational studies	66
The paradox of using SDM for de-implementation of low-value care in the clinical encounter	61
Quantifying the time-varying association between objectively measured physical activity and mortality in US older adults over a 12-year follow-up period: the NHANES 2003–2006 study	47
Attitudes of people living with cancer towards trial non-publication and research participation	41
Diagnostic accuracy of dipsticks for urinary tract infections in acutely hospitalised patients: a prospective population-based observational cohort study	37
Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
The Pandora’s Box of Evidence Synthesis and the case for a living Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy	34
Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases	32
Making an organisation for health technology assessment: lessons from India	31
Clinical effect and contributing factors of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and pairwise and exploratory network meta-analysis	31
Bad news: how the media reported on an observational study about cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19	30
Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a user’s guide for analysis and interpretation	26
Reliance on the highest-quality studies of Long Covid is appropriate and not evidence of bias	25
Emollients and smoking: a fire hazard that could be prevented to reduce future deaths	23
Pharmacological interventions for preventing upper gastrointestinal bleeding in people admitted to intensive care units: a network meta-analysis	23
Transparency of COVID-19 vaccine trials: decisions without data	22
Dear doctor, please know that you do not know until I have told you	21
Risks of infection, hospital and ICU admission, and death from COVID-19 in people with asthma: systematic review and meta-analyses	21
Development of literature search strategies for evidence syntheses: pros and cons of incorporating text mining tools and objective approaches	21
Sharing study materials in health and medical research	20
Advocating for evidence-informed decisions to make healthcare fit for each person	20
Quality of reporting among systematic reviews underpinning the ESC/ACC guidelines on ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death	20

Factors influencing estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in non-randomised studies	17
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture	17
Correspondence on ‘The limits of shared decision making’ by Elwynet al: We call for a more nuanced approach	17
Therapeutic quality of exercise interventions for chronic low back pain: a meta-research study using i-CONTENT tool	17
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk	17
Efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis	15
How to interpret studies using Mendelian randomisation	15
Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data	14
Do infographics ‘spin’ the findings of health and medical research?	14
Enhancing clinical practice guidelines with STAR	14
Overdiagnosis and Barrett’s oesophagus: a call for clarity	12
Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID	11
Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users	11
Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis	11
Identifying actionable statements in Chinese health guidelines: a cross-sectional study	10
Introduction of allergenic food to infants and allergic and autoimmune conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Ten resources for understanding bias in health research: EBM live workshop 2022	10
CARE-radiology statement explanation and elaboration: reporting guideline for radiological case reports	10
Rapid reviews methods series: guidance on rapid qualitative evidence synthesis	10
Data-dredging bias	9
Quality of systematic reviews supporting the 2017 ACC/AHA and 2018 ESC/ESH guidelines for the management of hypertension	9
Ethical implications of AI-driven bias assessment in medicine	9
Face-to-face versus online clinically integrated EBM teaching in an undergraduate medical school: a pilot study	9
Does my patient have SARS-CoV-2 infection? A reminder of clinical probability formulas	9
Can shared decision making address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?	9
Early experience with the FDA’s regulatory review of novel gene therapies	9
Meet generative AI� your new shared decision-making assistant	9
Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis	8
Implementing hierarchical network meta-analysis incorporating exchangeable dose effects compared to standard hierarchical network meta-analysis	8
Expanding the measurement of overdiagnosis in the context of disease precursors and risk factors	8
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	8
Relationship between the conflicts of interest and the results of meta-analyses of homoeopathy trials	8
Ivabradine added to usual care in patients with heart failure: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	8
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 1): how to interpret healthcare information available on platforms	8
FDA’s dilemma with the aducanumab approval: public pressure and hope, surrogate markers and efficacy, and possible next steps	8
Metro Mapping: development of an innovative methodology to co-design care paths to support shared decision making in oncology	8
Reporting of patient-reported outcomes in trials on alcohol use disorder: a meta-epidemiological study	7
Decision architecture randomisation: extremely efficient clinical trials that preserve clinician and patient choice?	7
Inverse publication reporting bias favouring null, negative results	7
Associations between device-measured and self-reported physical activity and common mental disorders: Findings from a large-scale prospective cohort study	7
Promise and peril of claims-based dementia ascertainment in causal inference	7
How to best convey continuous outcomes in patient decision aids	7
In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19	7
Perspectives on the production, and use, of rapid evidence in decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	6
Interpreting the results from the first randomised controlled trial of colonoscopy: does it save lives?	6
Facilitating GRADE judgements about the inconsistency of effects using a novel visualisation approach	6
Correlation between chest CT and RT-PCR testing in India’s second COVID-19 wave: a retrospective cohort study	6
Later is not necessarily better: limitations of survival analysis in studies of long-term drug treatment of psychiatric conditions	6
Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study	6
Investigation into financial conflicts of interest and screening for atrial fibrillation in the UK: a cross-sectional study	6

Gender and geographical bias in the editorial decision-making process of biomedical journals: a case-control study	6
Exploring advanced methods for network meta-analysis	6
Context matters! What is really tested in an RCT?	5
Rapid reviews methods series: assessing the appropriateness of conducting a rapid review	5
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID	5
Expanded disease definitions in Alzheimer’s disease and the new era of disease-modifying drugs	5
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as proof of treatment efficacy	5
Measuring progress in institutionalising evidence-informed priority-setting in the Indian healthcare system: an application using the iProSE scale	5
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines	5
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	5
Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease: expediting approval and delaying science	5
Knowledge user survey and Delphi process to inform development of a new risk of bias tool to assess systematic reviews with network meta-analysis (RoB NMA tool)	5
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on team considerations, study selection, data extraction and risk of bias assessment	5
Proposed triggers for retiring a living systematic review	5
Harnessing health technology assessment in India: paving the way for sustainable healthcare solutions in developing countries	5
Using Risk of Bias 2 to assess results from randomised controlled trials: guidance from Cochrane	5
Peer reviewers’ conflicts of interest in biomedical research: scoping review	4
Can the HEARTS initiative reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease?	4
Improving FDA postmarket adverse event reporting for medical devices	4
School closures during COVID-19: an overview of systematic reviews	4
Using absolute risk reduction to guide the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	4
When we move cancer drugs from the second or third to the first line of treatment: what lessons can we learn from KEYNOTE-177 and JAVELIN-100	4
Global considerations for informed consent with shared decision-making in the digital age	4
The ‘double whammy’ of low prevalence in clinical risk prediction	4
Guest authorship as research misconduct: definitions and possible solutions	4
Four overlooked errors in ROC analysis: how to prevent and avoid	3
Opportunities, challenges and risks of using artificial intelligence for evidence synthesis	3
Informed by research, transformed by research	3
Reporting and methodological quality of studies that use Mendelian randomisation in UK Biobank: a meta-epidemiological study	3
Proof of concept: all-virtual guideline development workshops using GRADE during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Best way not to misuse p values is not to draw definitive conclusions about hypotheses	3
Can a replication revolution resolve the duplication crisis in systematic reviews?	3
Encounter versus patient decision aids to enhance shared decision-making	3
Pilot study on large language models for risk-of-bias assessments in systematic reviews: A(I) new type of bias?	3
Insights on the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) guideline addressing medical overuse	3
Density strips: visualisation of uncertainty in clinical data summaries and research findings	3
Applying the time needed to treat to NICE guidelines on lifestyle interventions	3
Acupuncture for acute migraine attacks in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Replacing PICO in non-interventional studies	3
Smartphone apps for point-of-care information summaries: systematic assessment of the quality and content	3
Teaching evidence-based medicine by using a systematic review framework: implementation in a Swedish university setting	3
Does the format of result presentation and type of conclusion in Cochrane plain language summaries matter? A randomised controlled trial	3
Unknowns of drug company payment disclosure: why the UK needs payment transparency legislation	3
Deceptive shifts in cancer stage distribution	3
Exploring the diverse definitions of ‘evidence’: a scoping review	3
Swallowing outcomes in dysphagia interventions in Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review	3
Setting new research in the context of previous research: some options	3
Call to improve transparent communication in direct-to-consumer test marketing	3
Rapid reviews methods series: considerations and recommendations for evidence synthesis in rapid reviews	3
Strengthening transparency in randomised trials related to multimorbidity: key points and recommendations to guide reporting	2
‘Diagnostic downshift’: clinical and system consequences of extrapolating secondary care testing tactics to primary care	2
From promise to practice: challenges and pitfalls in the evaluation of large language models for data extraction in evidence synthesis	2
Safety implications of mask use: a systematic review and evidence map	2
Development of a competency framework for health technology assessment in India	2
A call for community-shared decisions	2
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 2): how to appraise studies using data from platforms	2
Pragmatic and open science-based solution to a current problem in the reporting of living systematic reviews	2
Characteristics, quality and volume of the first 5 months of the COVID-19 evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study	2
Approach of patient involvement in systematic review development	2
Appraising qualitative health research—towards a differentiated approach	2
iHealthFacts: a health fact-checking website for the public	2
Effect of spin in the abstract of a randomised controlled trial on physiotherapists’ perception of treatment benefit: a randomised controlled trial	2
Registration of health and medical research	2
Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters	2
Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online	2
Balancing benefits and potential risks of vaccination: the precautionary principle and the law of unintended consequences	2
Post-publication peer review and the identification of methodological and reporting issues in COVID-19 trials: a qualitative study	2
Catalogue of bias: novelty bias	2
Quality appraisal of evidence generated during a crisis: in defence of ‘timeliness’ and ‘clarity’ as criteria	2
Developing guideline recommendations about tests: educational examples of test-management pathways	2
Thresholds for interpreting the fragility index derived from sample of randomised controlled trials in cardiology: a meta-epidemiologic study	2
Advancing evidence-based medicine in China: an interview with Gordon Guyatt	2
Different meta-analysis methods can change judgements about imprecision of effect estimates: a meta-epidemiological study	2
Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice	2
Rapid review method series: interim guidance for the reporting of rapid reviews	2
Responsible dissemination of health and medical research: some guidance points	2
Component network meta-analysis in a nutshell	2