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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Best practice in statistics: The use of log transformation	58
Lp(a): When and how to measure it	57
Best practice in statistics: Use the Welch t-test when testing the difference between two groups	45
Don’t seek, don’t find: The diagnostic challenge of Wernicke’s encephalopathy	42
Elevated procalcitonin concentrations in severe Covid-19 may not reflect bacterial co-infection	38
Development of a high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing pathway using dried blood spot specimens	31
Assessment of tacrolimus and creatinine concentration collected using Mitra microsampling devices	30
Correlating arterial blood gas, acid–base and blood pressure abnormalities with outcomes in COVID-19 intensive care patients	30
Monocyte distribution width as a biomarker of sepsis in the intensive care unit: A pilot study	28
Serum biomarkers for prediction of mortality in patients with COVID-19	22
Evaluation of the usability of various rapid antibody tests in the diagnostic application for COVID-19	17
Identifying mislabelled samples: Machine learning models exceed human performance	16
Faecal haemoglobin concentration thresholds for reassurance and urgent investigation for colorectal cancer based on a faecal immunochemical test in symptomatic patients in primary care	16
Performance verification of anti-SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody detection by using four chemiluminescence immunoassay systems	16
Measurement of faecal haemoglobin with a faecal immunochemical test can assist in defining which patients attending primary care with rectal bleeding require urgent referral	14
Method-dependent variation in TSH and FT4 reference intervals in pregnancy: A systematic review	14
Clinical adoption of Nephrocheck® in the early detection of acute kidney injury	14
An LC-MS/MS assay for analysis of equilibrium angiotensin II in human serum	13
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	13
Plasma miR-193a-3p can be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy	12
Serum myonectin is increased after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy	11
Bile acid diarrhoea: Current and potential methods of diagnosis	11
Reference values for C-reactive protein and procalcitonin at term pregnancy and in the early postnatal period	10
Negative interference from immunoglobulin M paraproteinaemia on the Roche enzymatic creatinine method	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

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
Clinical and laboratory aspects of 3,3′,5′-triiodothyronine (reverse T3)	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
Biotin immunoassay interference: A UK-based prevalence study	8
Discovery of microRNA expression profiles involved in regulating TGF-β2 expression in the tears of dry eye patients	8
Calculated globulin as a screening tool for hypogammaglobulinaemia or paraproteins in hospitalized patients	8
Assessing bone formation in patients with chronic kidney disease using procollagen type I N-terminal propeptide (PINP): The choice of assay makes a difference	8
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	7
Clinical laboratory medicine measurements correlation analysis under uncertainty	7
The use of routine blood tests to assist the diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic hospitalized patients	7
Prognostic value of serum aquaporin-1, aquaporin-3 and galectin-3 for young patients with colon cancer	7
Biological sources of variations of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b in a healthy Japanese population	7
Reflex and reflective testing: progress, but much still to be done	7
Drug dosing using estimated glomerular filtration rate: Misclassification due to metamizole interference in a creatinine assay	7
The impact of the analytical performance specifications of calcium and albumin on adjusted calcium	7
Comparison of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein vs. C-reactive protein for diagnostic accuracy and prediction of mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction	6
Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis suppression – The value of salivary cortisol and cortisone in assessing hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal recovery	6
SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19): A short update on molecular biochemistry, pathology, diagnosis and therapeutic strategies	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
Expected values for gastrointestinal and pancreatic hormone concentrations in healthy volunteers in the fasting and postprandial state	6
Tumour markers in prostate cancer: The post-prostate-specific antigen era	6
Performance characteristics of five SARS-CoV-2 serological assays: Clinical utility in health-care workers	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
A rapid LC-MS/MS assay for the measurement of serum methotrexate in patients who have received high doses for chemotherapy	5
Quantification of testosterone, androstenedione and 17-hydroxyprogesterone in whole blood collected using Mitra microsampling devices	5
Case report: Interference from isatuximab on serum protein electrophoresis prevented demonstration of complete remission in a myeloma patient	5
Replicate and repeat faecal immunochemical tests in symptomatic patients: A systematic review	5
Functional vitamin B12 deficiency in phenylketonuria patients and healthy controls: An evaluation with combined indicator of vitamin B12 status as a biochemical index	5
The effect of haemolysis on the direct and indirect ion selective electrode measurement of sodium	5
Pneumatic tube validation: Reducing the need for donor samples by integrating a vial-embedded data logger	5
Management of transgender patients in Laboratory Information Management Systems – Moving on from binary and ternary logic	4
Survey of patient perception of pre-analytical requirements for blood testing in the UK and RoI	4
Trimester-specific reference intervals for cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin during pregnancy	4
Do faecal test-based colorectal cancer screening pilots provide data that are reflected in subsequent programmes? Evidence from interval cancer proportions	4
Factors influencing the derivation and clinical application of blood calcium adjustment equations	4
Application of the sigma metrics to evaluate the analytical performance of cystatin C and design a quality control strategy	4
Performance of commercially-available cholesterol self-tests	4
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	4
Prognostic evaluation of serum long non-coding RNA H19 for endoscopic keyhole surgery or craniotomy in glioma	4
Conflicting effects of haemolysis on plasma sodium and chloride are due to different haemolysis study protocols: A case for standardisation	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
Repeat measurements on patient samples identifies unpredictable and poorly reproducible cardiac troponin results with a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay	3
Serum cortisol assay performance following the 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test	3
Correlation of serum myonectin concentrations with the presence and severity of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome	3
Time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay for urine retinol-binding protein is more sensitive than polyclonal and monoclonal assays	3

Falsely elevated thyroid hormone levels associated with fibrin interference in patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy	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
A standard addition method to quantify serum lithium by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry	3
Implementing cardiovascular precision diagnostics: laboratory specialists as catalysts?	3
Can patients with mild post-operative hyponatraemia following elective arthroplasty be discharged safely? A large-scale service evaluation suggests they can	3
Predicting ionized hypocalcemia: External validation of an ionized calcium prediction model in patients with COVID-19 and renal failure	3
Reference intervals for clinical biochemistry and haematology tests during normal pregnancy	3
Nephrocheck®: Checkmate or reality check?	3
Key methodological challenges in detecting circulating miRNAs in different biofluids	3
Reference intervals of urinary kidney injury biomarkers for middle-aged men and women determined by quantitative protein mass spectrometry	3
Lithium heparin interference in the Abbott enzymatic creatinine assay: the significance of under-filled tubes	3
Variation of eGFR reporting and CKD equations used in the United Kingdom	3
Alternative diagnoses and demographics associated with a raised quantitative faecal immunochemical test in symptomatic patients	3
Routine use of natriuretic peptides: Lessons from a big data analysis	3
Novel cholesterol efflux assay using immobilized liposome-bound gel beads: Confirmation and improvement for application in clinical laboratory	3
Can artificial intelligence replace biochemists? A study comparing interpretation of thyroid function test results by ChatGPT and Google Bard to practising biochemists	3
Diagnostic performance of serum calprotectin in discriminating active from inactive ulcerative colitis in an outpatient setting	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