OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Science and the Law is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Detection of bloodstains using attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy supported with PCA and PCA–LDA	23
Prevalence and potential consequences of child labour in India and the possible impact of COVID-19 – a contemporary overview	23
Dental age estimation: Demirjian’s versus the other methods in different populations. A literature review	23
Methamphetamine deaths: Changing trends and diagnostic issues	18
Third molar maturity index and legal age in different ethnic populations: Accuracy of Cameriere’s method	16
Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	16
Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making	14
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in mHealth: Theoretical and practical aspects for practitioners’ use	13
How well do Regulation 28 reports serve future public health and safety?	12
ChatGPT: Forensic, legal, and ethical issues	12
Male victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence: A steadily increasing phenomenon	12
Violence against women in heterosexual couples: A review of psychological and medico-legal considerations	12
Femoral blood concentrations of the designer benzodiazepine etizolam in post-mortem cases	12
Complex and complicated suicides in Friuli (1993–2017)	10
Zebrafish larvae: A new model to study behavioural effects and metabolism of fentanyl, in comparison to a traditional mice model	10
Drug transfer during intimate moments: A key issue in doping control that can be documented by hair tests of the athlete and the partner	9
Role of forensic medicine in addressing the war crimes: Perspective from Russia-Ukraine conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Validating dental age estimation in Kenyan black children and adolescents using the Willems method	8
The UK's exportation of asylum obligations to Rwanda: A challenge to mental health, ethics and the law	7
Mortality in Prisons: The Experience of the Bureau of Legal Medicine of Milan (Italy) (1993–2017)	7
Monozygotic twins: Identical or distinguishable for science and law?	7
Informing reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law	6
Emerging trends in domestic homicide/femicide in Greece over the period 2010–2021	6
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	6
Alcohol-associated traffic injuries in Verona territory: A nine-year survey	6

Deep learning and morphometric approach for Sex determination of the lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population	6
Methamphetamine use and the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis	5
The right to mourn: Post-traumatic stress and the forensic pathologist	5
The development and testing of Thai facial soft tissue thickness data in three-dimensional computerized forensic facial reconstruction	5
Forensic age estimation using conventional radiography of the medial clavicular epiphysis: A systematic review	4
Ethical considerations regarding mental disorder and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in the prison population	4
England's rate of involuntary psychiatric admission is double that of the Republic of Ireland: Why? A consideration of some possible causes	4
Post-mortem analysis of gunshot wounds to the head and thorax in dogs by computed tomography, radiography and forensic necropsy	4
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	4
A methodological comparison of discriminant function analysis and binary logistic regression for estimating sex in forensic research and case-work	4
Age-related changes in the hyoid bone: An autopsy-based radiological analysis	4
Mental health in prisons in Latin America: The effects of COVID-19	4
Policies and practice in the disclosure of medical error: Insights from leading countries to address the issue in Italy	4
Chemsex-related crime and vulnerability: A public health and criminal justice priority	4
Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses	4
Major organ loss from post-mortem animal predation: Issues arising from emptied body cavities	4
Evaluation of the relationship between the detectability of seminal stains on laundered fabric and stain age	4
Potential significance of swastika tattoos in a medico-legal setting	3
Emerging issues in the approach to submerged bodies: Water-related deaths in Friuli, northeastern Italy (1993–2020). Analysis of post-mortem reports and some unusual cases	3
Testing regression and mean model approaches to facial soft-tissue thickness estimation	3
Glass table tops: An unusual source of lethal domestic injury	3
Sex estimation from biometric face photos for forensic purposes	3
Histotopography of haemorrhagic infiltration in the hanging cutaneous furrow: Where to look for haemorrhagic infiltration in hanging	3
Resizing reaction volumes for the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep kit library preparation	3
How different countries respond to adverse events whilst patients’ rights are protected	3
Developing a clinical pathway for traumatic stress in prisons	3
Advancing research in adult secure mental health services in England	3
A meta-analysis on the effects of incarceration-based opioid substitution treatment	3
Lethal mechanisms in cases of inverted suspension from the lap component of seat belts	3
Over 30 years of liaison and diversion in England and Wales: How far have we come, and what is now needed?	3
Identification of skeletal remains by orthopaedic implant: A case report and brief review of the literature	3
Personality disorders and forensic assessments: The benefits of ICD-11	3
Consultation between forensic and clinical pathologists for histopathology examination after forensic autopsy	3
Carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope ratios reveal geographic affinity and dietary status of Ajnala skeletal remains: A forensic anthropological study	3
Autopsy findings of suicidal hanging in Mugla, Turkey	3
Response to: Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	3
Workplace hazards in forensic mortuaries in Saudi Arabia: A survey of forensic mortuary personnel	2
The criminalisation of miscarriage associated with illicit substance consumption whilst pregnant	2
An overview of suicides related to motor vehicles	2
Legal and human rights issues in the use of electronic monitoring (using GPS ‘tracking’ technology) in forensic mental health settings in the UK	2
The role of a Medical Examiner Service in an acute NHS hospital: Perspectives from doctors and next of kin	2
Prison-based democratic therapeutic communities, medication, and the power to exclude	2
Deaths associated with wheelchairs	2
A retrospective cohort study describing characteristics of those repeatedly detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act over a 5-year period and the association with past abuse	2
Explosion fatalities in Sweden, 2000–2018	2
Issues and problems involving acid attacks against male victims in India	2
Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest – A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	2
Trends in motorcycle accident mortality in Lagos: Consequences of government policy changes	2
Thunder storm mortality: Issues of medicolegal concern	2
Professor Nigel Eastman (1945–2022)	2

Court liaison and diversion services for people with neurodevelopmental conditions: A House of Lords consensus meeting	2
The Italian ‘holistic’ vision of forensic medicine and science	2
Custodial deaths seen in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Lagos, Nigeria: An 11-year autopsy study	2
Knowledge of evidence-based practices for PTSD among mental health court judges	2
Manual scavenging and the right to health in India – social and medicolegal perspectives	2
Provision of forensic healthcare services for police custodial settings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Current practice and implications for other services?	2
Exploring the prevalence of personality disorder and the feasibility of using the SAPAS as a screening tool for personality disorder in an emergency department in India	2
Do not resuscitate: Lawful or unlawful?	2
Estimating age from digital radiographic images of lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population using an image analysis technique	2
Casper’s sign in the elderly	2
Victim–perpetrator relationship, age and method of homicide in intimate and non-intimate cases of femicide from the republic of Ireland	2
Assigned sex estimation with the clavicle and scapula: A study in a Portuguese reference sample	2
Compulsory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in health care professionals in Italy: Bioethical-legal issues	2
Blood alcohol concentration and road accidents: Underestimation due to time of the arrival to the emergency department (ED) or delay in blood sampling. A 4-Year Retrospective Study in Rome	2
Morphological cardiac changes in electrocution deaths: A literature review	2
Increased incidence of mixed drug toxicity deaths involving tapentadol – A forensic study	2
The prone position paradox	2
Humanitarian forensic action in aviation disasters: Managing personal effects	2
Education and training in forensic medicine in United Kingdom: Fit for purpose?	2
Diagnostic accuracies of CTs, X-rays and Lodox to detect blunt force trauma in adults, using a pig model	2
Filicide in South Asia: Demography, risk factors, psychiatric, and legal aspects	2