OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Clinical Biochemistry is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Electrolyte imbalances in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)	218
Lp(a): When and how to measure it	49
Best practice in statistics: The use of log transformation	43
Clinical utility of cardiac troponin measurement in COVID-19 infection	37
Don’t seek, don’t find: The diagnostic challenge of Wernicke’s encephalopathy	35
Best practice in statistics: Use the Welch t-test when testing the difference between two groups	34
Elevated procalcitonin concentrations in severe Covid-19 may not reflect bacterial co-infection	33
Assessment of tacrolimus and creatinine concentration collected using Mitra microsampling devices	30
Development of a high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing pathway using dried blood spot specimens	29
Correlating arterial blood gas, acid–base and blood pressure abnormalities with outcomes in COVID-19 intensive care patients	28
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the renin-angiotensin system: A closer look at angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)	26
Monocyte distribution width as a biomarker of sepsis in the intensive care unit: A pilot study	24
Serum biomarkers for prediction of mortality in patients with COVID-19	22
Prealbumin: The clinical utility and analytical methodologies	18
Evaluation of the usability of various rapid antibody tests in the diagnostic application for COVID-19	17
Faecal haemoglobin concentration thresholds for reassurance and urgent investigation for colorectal cancer based on a faecal immunochemical test in symptomatic patients in primary care	15
Performance verification of anti-SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody detection by using four chemiluminescence immunoassay systems	15
Serological tests for COVID-19 antibodies: Limitations must be recognized	14
Method-dependent variation in TSH and FT4 reference intervals in pregnancy: A systematic review	14
Identifying mislabelled samples: Machine learning models exceed human performance	13
An LC-MS/MS assay for analysis of equilibrium angiotensin II in human serum	13
Measurement of faecal haemoglobin with a faecal immunochemical test can assist in defining which patients attending primary care with rectal bleeding require urgent referral	12
Clinical adoption of Nephrocheck® in the early detection of acute kidney injury	12
Plasma miR-193a-3p can be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy	12
Bile acid diarrhoea: Current and potential methods of diagnosis	11

Serum myonectin is increased after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy	11
The use of whole blood capillary samples to measure 15 analytes for a home-collect biochemistry service during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A proposed model from North West London Pathology	10
Machine learning predictive models of LDL-C in the population of eastern India and its comparison with directly measured and calculated LDL-C	9
Negative interference from immunoglobulin M paraproteinaemia on the Roche enzymatic creatinine method	9
Albumin and calcium reference interval using healthy individuals and a data-mining approach	9
Reflective testing – A randomized controlled trial in primary care patients	9
Faecal immunochemical tests in the COVID-19 pandemic; safety-netting of patients with symptoms and low faecal haemoglobin concentration – can a repeat test be used?	9
Clinical and laboratory aspects of 3,3′,5′-triiodothyronine (reverse T3)	9
Reference values for C-reactive protein and procalcitonin at term pregnancy and in the early postnatal period	9
Biotin immunoassay interference: A UK-based prevalence study	8
Calculated globulin as a screening tool for hypogammaglobulinaemia or paraproteins in hospitalized patients	8
The impact of the analytical performance specifications of calcium and albumin on adjusted calcium	7
The use of routine blood tests to assist the diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic hospitalized patients	7
Assessing bone formation in patients with chronic kidney disease using procollagen type I N-terminal propeptide (PINP): The choice of assay makes a difference	7
Prospective study comparing the outcome of a population-specific adjusted calcium equation to ionized calcium	7
Co-analysis of pancreatic cyst fluid carcinoembryonic antigen and glucose with novel cut-off levels better distinguishes between mucinous and non-mucinous neoplastic pancreatic cystic lesions	6
Clinical laboratory medicine measurements correlation analysis under uncertainty	6
Challenging the status quo: A comparison of ion exchange chromatography with liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry methods for the measurement of a	6
SARS-CoV-2 immunochromatographic IgM/IgG rapid test in pregnancy: A false friend?	6
Prognostic value of serum aquaporin-1, aquaporin-3 and galectin-3 for young patients with colon cancer	6
Comparison of ultra-performance liquid chromatography and ARK immunoassay for therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole	6
Development, validation, and application of an UPLC-MS/MS method for vancomycin, norvancomycin, methotrexate, paclitaxel, and imatinib analysis in human plasma	6
SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19): A short update on molecular biochemistry, pathology, diagnosis and therapeutic strategies	6
Reflex and reflective testing: progress, but much still to be done	6
Performance characteristics of five SARS-CoV-2 serological assays: Clinical utility in health-care workers	6
Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis suppression – The value of salivary cortisol and cortisone in assessing hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal recovery	6
Expected values for gastrointestinal and pancreatic hormone concentrations in healthy volunteers in the fasting and postprandial state	6
Discovery of microRNA expression profiles involved in regulating TGF-β2 expression in the tears of dry eye patients	5
Drug dosing using estimated glomerular filtration rate: Misclassification due to metamizole interference in a creatinine assay	5
A rapid LC-MS/MS assay for the measurement of serum methotrexate in patients who have received high doses for chemotherapy	5
The effect of different analytical platforms and methods on the performance of population-specific adjusted calcium equation	5
Biological sources of variations of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b in a healthy Japanese population	5
The effect of haemolysis on the direct and indirect ion selective electrode measurement of sodium	5
Comparison of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein vs. C-reactive protein for diagnostic accuracy and prediction of mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction	5
Application of the sigma metrics to evaluate the analytical performance of cystatin C and design a quality control strategy	4
Multiple biomarkers measurement to estimate the duration of atrial fibrillation	4
Analytical characterization and clinical performance evaluation of a new point-of-care testing system for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay	4
Assessment of the analytical performance of point-of-care faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin	4
Conflicting effects of haemolysis on plasma sodium and chloride are due to different haemolysis study protocols: A case for standardisation	4
Trimester-specific reference intervals for cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin during pregnancy	4
Functional vitamin B12 deficiency in phenylketonuria patients and healthy controls: An evaluation with combined indicator of vitamin B12 status as a biochemical index	4
Prognostic evaluation of serum long non-coding RNA H19 for endoscopic keyhole surgery or craniotomy in glioma	4
Tumour markers in prostate cancer: The post-prostate-specific antigen era	4
Pneumatic tube validation: Reducing the need for donor samples by integrating a vial-embedded data logger	4
Do faecal test-based colorectal cancer screening pilots provide data that are reflected in subsequent programmes? Evidence from interval cancer proportions	4
Alternative diagnoses and demographics associated with a raised quantitative faecal immunochemical test in symptomatic patients	3
Personalising laboratory medicine in the ‘real world’: Assessing clinical utility, by clinical indication, of serum total B₁₂ and Active-B₁₂® (holotranscobalamin) in the diagnosi	3
Replicate and repeat faecal immunochemical tests in symptomatic patients: A systematic review	3
Does the use of fish oil-based lipid emulsion in the clinical setting of total parenteral nutrition and lipid rescue therapy interfere with common laboratory analytes on Roche Cobas 6000?	3
Do reflex comments on laboratory reports alter patient management?	3

Predicting ionized hypocalcemia: External validation of an ionized calcium prediction model in patients with COVID-19 and renal failure	3
Can patients with mild post-operative hyponatraemia following elective arthroplasty be discharged safely? A large-scale service evaluation suggests they can	3
Novel cholesterol efflux assay using immobilized liposome-bound gel beads: Confirmation and improvement for application in clinical laboratory	3
Evaluation of 24-h urine containers for urine copper measurement by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry	3
Polycyanoacrylate (super glue) as bladder concretion in a patient after bilateral inguinal hernioplasty	3
Management of transgender patients in Laboratory Information Management Systems – Moving on from binary and ternary logic	3
A standard addition method to quantify serum lithium by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry	3
Plasma viscosity: Evaluation of a new measuring method using microfluidic chip technology (microVisc™) for clinical use and determination of a new reference range	3
Routine use of natriuretic peptides: Lessons from a big data analysis	3
Performance of commercially-available cholesterol self-tests	3
Nephrocheck®: Checkmate or reality check?	3
The association between acid–base status and clinical outcome in critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit with an emphasis on high anion gap metabolic acidosis	3
Reference intervals of urinary kidney injury biomarkers for middle-aged men and women determined by quantitative protein mass spectrometry	3
Quantification of testosterone, androstenedione and 17-hydroxyprogesterone in whole blood collected using Mitra microsampling devices	3
Case report: Interference from isatuximab on serum protein electrophoresis prevented demonstration of complete remission in a myeloma patient	3
Factors influencing the derivation and clinical application of blood calcium adjustment equations	3
Time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay for urine retinol-binding protein is more sensitive than polyclonal and monoclonal assays	3
Repeat measurements on patient samples identifies unpredictable and poorly reproducible cardiac troponin results with a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay	3