OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine is 6. 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
Pharmacological interventions for preventing upper gastrointestinal bleeding in people admitted to intensive care units: a network meta-analysis	23
Emollients and smoking: a fire hazard that could be prevented to reduce future deaths	23
Transparency of COVID-19 vaccine trials: decisions without data	22
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
Dear doctor, please know that you do not know until I have told you	21
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
Sharing study materials in health and medical research	20

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
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
How to interpret studies using Mendelian randomisation	15
Efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis	15
Enhancing clinical practice guidelines with STAR	14
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
Overdiagnosis and Barrett’s oesophagus: a call for clarity	12
Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis	11
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
CARE-radiology statement explanation and elaboration: reporting guideline for radiological case reports	10
Rapid reviews methods series: guidance on rapid qualitative evidence synthesis	10
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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