OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Science and the Law 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
COVID-19 and prisons: Providing mental health care for people in prison, minimising moral injury and psychological distress in mental health staff	36
Dental age estimation: Demirjian’s versus the other methods in different populations. A literature review	20
An increase in suicides amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Nepal	19
Detection of bloodstains using attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy supported with PCA and PCA–LDA	18
Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review	18
A review of the management and safe handling of bodies in cases involving COVID-19	14
Prevalence and potential consequences of child labour in India and the possible impact of COVID-19 – a contemporary overview	14
The role of forensic pathologists in coronavirus disease 2019 infection: The importance of an interdisciplinary research	14
Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	13
Methamphetamine deaths: Changing trends and diagnostic issues	13
Third molar maturity index and legal age in different ethnic populations: Accuracy of Cameriere’s method	13
How well do Regulation 28 reports serve future public health and safety?	12
Forensic investigation of arson residue by infrared and Raman spectroscopy: From conventional to non-destructive techniques	11
Reform of the death investigation system in Japan	10
Zebrafish larvae: A new model to study behavioural effects and metabolism of fentanyl, in comparison to a traditional mice model	10
The Islamic perspective on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia	10
Drugs, pesticides and metabolites in forensic post-mortem blood samples	9
Complex and complicated suicides in Friuli (1993–2017)	8
Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making	8
Cannabis knowledge and implications for health: Considerations regarding the legalization of non-medical cannabis	8
Femoral blood concentrations of the designer benzodiazepine etizolam in post-mortem cases	8
Flubromazolam: Detection in five post-mortem cases	8
Violence against women in heterosexual couples: A review of psychological and medico-legal considerations	7
Simultaneous analysis of potassium and ammonium ions in the vitreous humour by capillary electrophoresis and their integrated use to infer the post mortem interval (PMI)	7
Male victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence: A steadily increasing phenomenon	7

Determination of ethanol in micro-volumes of blood by headspace gas chromatography: Statistical comparison between capillary and venous sampling sites	7
Dignity and rights of the dead and their families: A compromise in the time of coronavirus disease 2019	7
Forensic mental-health assessments after coronavirus disease 2019: Will telehealth lead us to trade psychological depth for convenience?	7
Mortality in Prisons: The Experience of the Bureau of Legal Medicine of Milan (Italy) (1993–2017)	6
Monozygotic twins: Identical or distinguishable for science and law?	6
Alcohol-associated traffic injuries in Verona territory: A nine-year survey	6
Validating dental age estimation in Kenyan black children and adolescents using the Willems method	6
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in mHealth: Theoretical and practical aspects for practitioners’ use	5
DNA profiling and databasing: An analysis of issues and challenges in the criminal justice system of Pakistan	5
Comparison of sex determination using three methods applied to the greater sciatic notch of os coxae in a Thai population: Dry bone morphology, 2-dimensional photograph morphometry, and deep learning	5
Histomorphological aspects of cadaveric skin and its possible use in forensic genetics	5
Lodged bullets on computed tomography: Three classification procedures for the virtual investigation of bullets or their fragments that cannot be recovered from the living patient	5
The UK's exportation of asylum obligations to Rwanda: A challenge to mental health, ethics and the law	5
Ormrod Lecture October 2019: Police restraint – causes of death	5
Role of forensic medicine in addressing the war crimes: Perspective from Russia-Ukraine conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Vehicle fatalities involving collisions with kangaroos	4
Informing reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law	4
The early identification of people with personality disorder in the criminal justice system	4
ChatGPT: Forensic, legal, and ethical issues	4
Traumatic inguinal hernia: An uncommonly reported entity	4
Deep learning and morphometric approach for Sex determination of the lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population	4
Drug transfer during intimate moments: A key issue in doping control that can be documented by hair tests of the athlete and the partner	4
Methamphetamine use and the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis	4
Urine drug-testing tampering approaches: Turkish probationers	4
Policies and practice in the disclosure of medical error: Insights from leading countries to address the issue in Italy	4
The development and testing of Thai facial soft tissue thickness data in three-dimensional computerized forensic facial reconstruction	3
The workload of a medical examiner service at an acute National Health Service hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital experience	3
Glass table tops: An unusual source of lethal domestic injury	3
Carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope ratios reveal geographic affinity and dietary status of Ajnala skeletal remains: A forensic anthropological study	3
Mental health in prisons in Latin America: The effects of COVID-19	3
Resizing reaction volumes for the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep kit library preparation	3
Evaluation of the relationship between the detectability of seminal stains on laundered fabric and stain age	3
Post-mortem analysis of gunshot wounds to the head and thorax in dogs by computed tomography, radiography and forensic necropsy	3
Chemsex-related crime and vulnerability: A public health and criminal justice priority	3
Testing regression and mean model approaches to facial soft-tissue thickness estimation	3
Amendment to the law to curb violence against doctors during the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis in India	3
Ultrasonographic evaluation of the wrist and elbow joints: A pilot study to explore a non-invasive technique for age estimation	3
England's rate of involuntary psychiatric admission is double that of the Republic of Ireland: Why? A consideration of some possible causes	3
The right to mourn: Post-traumatic stress and the forensic pathologist	3
Femoral histomorphometric age-at-death studies: The issue of sample size and standard error	3
Personality disorders and forensic assessments: The benefits of ICD-11	3
Identification of skeletal remains by orthopaedic implant: A case report and brief review of the literature	3
Developing a clinical pathway for traumatic stress in prisons	3
Forensic age estimation using conventional radiography of the medial clavicular epiphysis: A systematic review	3
Education and training in forensic medicine in United Kingdom: Fit for purpose?	3
Response to: Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	3
Potential significance of swastika tattoos in a medico-legal setting	3
Emerging trends in domestic homicide/femicide in Greece over the period 2010–2021	3