OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalization and Health is 11. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation and challenges to preventing the re-establishment of malaria in China in the COVID-19 era	95
Comprehensive Medical Support in Complex Emergencies (CMSCE): pilot course review	88
North Korea’s COVID-19 policy dilemma: epidemic prevention conflicting with trade	68
Correction: Assessing the effects of mining projects on child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis	66
Cross-border utilization of cancer care by patients in the US and Mexico – a survey of Mexican oncologists	59
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest: critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking	58
Intellectual property licensing of therapeutics during the COVID-19 crisis: lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and response	58
National governance and excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis and perspectives on future pandemics	53
The alcohol industry’s involvement with road safety NGOs	50
Capturing sources of health system legitimacy in fragmented conflict zones under different governance models: a case study of northwest Syria	49
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day: do climate variations enhance the spread of COVID-19?	47
Public health consequences after ten years of the Syrian crisis: a literature review	45
Analysing the impact of trade agreements on national food environments: the case of Vanuatu	45
Reserve antibiotics: overcoming limitations of evidence generated from regulatory approval trials	44
Disclosure, transparency, and accountability: a qualitative survey of public sector pharmaceutical committee conflict of interest policies in the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region	42
From isolation to revival: trade recovery amid global health crises	42
Global smoking-related deaths averted due to MPOWER policies implemented at the highest level between 2007 and 2020	40
The politics of glyphosate regulation: lessons from Sri Lanka’s short-lived ban	35
Characteristics and outcomes of the drug patent linkage system in China	35
Securing the rights and health of domestic workers: the importance of ratifying the ILO’s C189	35
Lobbying and nutrition policy in Canada: a quantitative descriptive study on stakeholder interactions with government officials in the context of Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy	34
Learning from COVID-19: government leaders’ perspectives to improve emergency risk communication	34
Universal coverage of the first antenatal care visit but poor continuity of care across the maternal and newborn health continuum among Nepalese women: analysis of levels and correlates	34
Who influences nutrition policy space using international trade and investment agreements? A global stakeholder analysis	32
Vaccine nationalism will persist: global public goods need effective engagement of global citizens	32

“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies	31
Food insecurity, COVID-19 and diets in Fiji – a cross-sectional survey of over 500 adults	31
Financing of health services for undocumented immigrants in Iran: common challenges and potential solutions	30
De-escalation strategies for non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks: a rapid review and a proposed dynamic de-escalation framework	29
Future health expenditure in the BRICS countries: a forecasting analysis for 2035	29
Structure, functions, performance and gaps of event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan, 2021: a cross-sectional review	28
Translating global evidence into local implementation through technical assistance: a realist evaluation of the Bloomberg philanthropies initiative for global Road safety	28
Safeguarding health in bilateral investment treaties: the Uruguayan experience	28
“When there is no money, that is when I vomit blood”: the domino effect and the unfettered lethal exploitation of Black labor on Dominican sugar plantations	28
Incremental financial costs of strengthening large-scale child nutrition programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam: retrospective expenditure analysis	27
Geographical and practical challenges in the implementation of digital health passports for cross-border COVID-19 pandemic management: a narrative review and framework for solutions	27
Experiences of violence while in insecure migration status: a qualitative evidence synthesis	26
Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons towards a more effective response to public health emergencies	26
Strengthening the WHO in the pandemic era by removing a persistent structural defect in financing	25
Correction: Mapping study for health emergency and disaster risk management competencies and curricula: literature review and cross-sectional survey	25
Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability?	24
Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	23
Research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning in medicine: global characteristics, readiness, and equity	23
Health expenditure, governance and SDG3 nexus: a longitudinal analysis in BRICS economies	23
Does international trade and investment liberalization facilitate corporate power in nutrition and alcohol policymaking? Applying an integrated political economy and power analysis approach to a case	23
COVID-19 crisis interlinkage with past pandemics and their effects on food security	22
A monetary model of global peace and health	22
AMR and Sustainable Development Goals: at a crossroads	21
Sugar, power and policy: The political economy of a health and economic ‘win–win’ in Fiji’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax	21
How are global health policies transferred to sub-Saharan Africa countries? A systematic critical review of literature	20
Comparative effectiveness of financing models in development assistance for health and the role of results-based funding approaches: a scoping review	20
The future of human malnutrition: rebalancing agency for better nutritional health	20
Correction to: Projecting health labor market dynamics for a health system in transition: planning for a resilient health workforce in Saudi Arabia	20
“Favoring those who contributed to their political campaigns”: an analysis of the incentives received by the food industry in Colombia in the period of 2018—2020	19
Towards mission-driven investment in new antimicrobials? What role for Chinese strategic industrial financing vehicles in responding to the challenge of antimicrobial resistance?	19
A case-based approach to teaching epidemic and pandemic-related global health diplomacy and security in African countries	19
Association between Tobacco Industry Interference Index (TIII) and MPOWER measures and adult daily smoking prevalence rate in 30 countries	18
Exploring the perspectives and practices of humanitarian actors towards the Participation Revolution in humanitarian digital health responses: a qualitative study	18
Why do International Health Regulations self-assessment capacities (SPAR) scores not predict COVID-19 control outcomes? – analysis of the relationship between SPAR scores and COVID-19 resilience score	18
Safeguarding global health security amidst a scramble for Africa’s minerals for the clean energy transition	18
Strategies to strengthen a climate-resilient health system: a scoping review	17
Equity of National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) in Mainland China, 2019: a cross-sectional study based on the NEPHS database	17
The biomedical securitization of global health	17
Implementation of a non-randomized controlled trial of yoga-based intervention to reduce behavioural issues in early adolescent school-going children in Sri Lanka	17
Global health diplomacy in Mexico: insights from key actors in the field	17
Women and working in healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil: bullying of colleagues	16
Comprehensive evaluation of community human settlement resilience and spatial characteristics based on the supply–demand mismatch between health activities and environment: a case study of downtown Sh	16
Designing legislative responses to restrict children’s exposure to unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing: a case study analysis of Chile, Canada and the United Kingdom	16
Redefining Debt-to-Health, a triple-win health financing instrument in global health	16
Health policy competencies in regional organizations: a retrospective analysis for 76 regional organizations from 1945 to 2015	16
Registering transparency: the making of the international clinical trial registry platform by the world health organization (2004–2006)	15
Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study	15
Substandard and falsified medical products: bibliometric analysis and mapping of scientific research	15
Associated factors and global adherence of cervical cancer screening in 2019: a systematic analysis and modelling study	14
Informal employment and poor self-perceived health in Latin America and the Caribbean: a gender-based comparison between countries and welfare states in a pooled analysis of 176,786 workers	14

Spatial–temporal trends in global childhood overweight and obesity from 1975 to 2030: a weight mean center and projection analysis of 191 countries	14
The COVID-19 quandemic	14
Are we happy with our work in globalization? Globalization experience, achievement motivation, and job seniority as predictors of work satisfaction in a group of office workers	14
Constructing healthcare services markets: networks, brokers and the China-England engagement	14
Does unequal economic development contribute to the inequitable distribution of healthcare resources? Evidence from China spanning 2001–2020	14
Heatwaves: does global research reflect the growing threat in the light of climate change?	14
In the aftermath of the adoption of the landmark Pandemic Accord: what are the strategic options for its effective implementation in Africa?	14
The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review	13
Health information management systems and practices in conflict-affected settings: the case of northwest Syria	13
Pull me – push you? The disparate financing mechanisms of drug research in global health	13
Leveraging WHO’s Global Benchmarking Tool to strengthen capacity in clinical trials oversight for public health emergencies: the GHPP VaccTrain model	13
The multiple uses of telemedicine during the pandemic: the evidence from a cross-sectional survey of medical doctors in Brazil	13
The challenges in protecting public health interests in multisectoral governance in the context of small island developing states: the case of tobacco control in Fiji and Vanuatu	13
Dynamics of factors associated with rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in African countries	13
Cross-border precarity: the complex strain on expatriates and their families amidst public health crisis	13
The effect of COVID-19 on public confidence in the World Health Organization: a natural experiment among 40 countries	13
Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan through $10 billion Afghani assets: what are the challenges and opportunities at hand?	13
Making Big Business Everybody’s Business: Aboriginal leaders’ perspectives on commercial activities influencing Aboriginal health in Victoria, Australia	12
Does structural form matter? A comparative analysis of pooled procurement mechanisms for health commodities	12
Health status assessment of a population of asylum seekers in Northern Italy	12
Efficiency in the governance of the Covid-19 pandemic: political and territorial factors	12
Faster and farther towards the abyss: global health accelerators instead of tangible changes	12
Examining the militarised hierarchy of Sierra Leone’s Ebola response and implications for decision making during public health emergencies	12
The development of a method for the global health community to assess the proportion of food and beverage companies’ sales that are derived from unhealthy foods	11
Food insecurity, environment, institutional quality, and health outcomes: evidence from South Asia	11
Developing a protocol on antimicrobial resistance through WHO’s pandemic treaty will protect lives in future pandemics	11
Management of health information of nepalese labour migrants	11
Digital activism in Kenya: moving from the digital center to the digital periphery of Long Covid experience	11
Evaluating the effect of health insurance reform on health equity and financial protection for elderly in low- and middle-income countries: evidences from China	11
Resilience level and its association with maladaptive coping behaviours in the COVID-19 pandemic: a global survey of the general populations	11
Framing policy objectives in the sustainable development goals: hierarchy, balance, or transformation?	11
Editorial: Whither globalization and health in an era of geopolitical uncertainty?	11
Drivers of consumer food choices of multinational corporations’ products over local foods in Ghana: a maximum difference scaling study	11
Universal public health insurance for Afghan refugees in Iran: a contextual analysis	11
A political economy analysis of the legislative response to unhealthy food and beverage marketing in Chile, Canada and the UK	11