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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Detection of bloodstains using attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy supported with PCA and PCA–LDA	22
Dental age estimation: Demirjian’s versus the other methods in different populations. A literature review	21
Prevalence and potential consequences of child labour in India and the possible impact of COVID-19 – a contemporary overview	21
An increase in suicides amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Nepal	19
Methamphetamine deaths: Changing trends and diagnostic issues	18
Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology	16
Third molar maturity index and legal age in different ethnic populations: Accuracy of Cameriere’s method	16
Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making	12
ChatGPT: Forensic, legal, and ethical issues	12
Drugs, pesticides and metabolites in forensic post-mortem blood samples	12
How well do Regulation 28 reports serve future public health and safety?	12
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in mHealth: Theoretical and practical aspects for practitioners’ use	11
Femoral blood concentrations of the designer benzodiazepine etizolam in post-mortem cases	11
Violence against women in heterosexual couples: A review of psychological and medico-legal considerations	11
Male victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence: A steadily increasing phenomenon	11
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
Alcohol-associated traffic injuries in Verona territory: A nine-year survey	6
Emerging trends in domestic homicide/femicide in Greece over the period 2010–2021	6

Informing reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law	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
Vehicle fatalities involving collisions with kangaroos	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
Deep learning and morphometric approach for Sex determination of the lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population	5
Methamphetamine use and the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis	5
Ultrasonographic evaluation of the wrist and elbow joints: A pilot study to explore a non-invasive technique for age estimation	5
The right to mourn: Post-traumatic stress and the forensic pathologist	5
DNA profiling and databasing: An analysis of issues and challenges in the criminal justice system of Pakistan	5
Urine drug-testing tampering approaches: Turkish probationers	5
The development and testing of Thai facial soft tissue thickness data in three-dimensional computerized forensic facial reconstruction	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
Chemsex-related crime and vulnerability: A public health and criminal justice priority	4
Forensic age estimation using conventional radiography of the medial clavicular epiphysis: A systematic review	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
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
Testing regression and mean model approaches to facial soft-tissue thickness estimation	3
Sex estimation from biometric face photos for forensic purposes	3
Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses	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
Personality disorders and forensic assessments: The benefits of ICD-11	3
Developing a clinical pathway for traumatic stress in prisons	3
A methodological comparison of discriminant function analysis and binary logistic regression for estimating sex in forensic research and case-work	3
Histotopography of haemorrhagic infiltration in the hanging cutaneous furrow: Where to look for haemorrhagic infiltration in hanging	3
Ethical considerations regarding mental disorder and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in the prison population	3
Resizing reaction volumes for the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep kit library preparation	3
Consultation between forensic and clinical pathologists for histopathology examination after forensic autopsy	3
Genetic analysis of 12 X-short tandem repeats loci in a northern Thai population	3
A meta-analysis on the effects of incarceration-based opioid substitution treatment	3
Carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope ratios reveal geographic affinity and dietary status of Ajnala skeletal remains: A forensic anthropological study	3
Lethal mechanisms in cases of inverted suspension from the lap component of seat belts	3
Injuries and deaths caused by non-human primate attacks: Paediatric vulnerability	3
Identification of skeletal remains by orthopaedic implant: A case report and brief review of the literature	3
Glass table tops: An unusual source of lethal domestic injury	3