OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New England Journal of Medicine is 23. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Secondary Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy	8370
Early Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Ibuprofen	7126
Navigating and Communicating about Serious Illness and End of Life	2713
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitors for Anemia in CKD	2331
Mallory–Weiss Syndrome	2204
Global Health Law for a Safer and Fairer World	2112
Corporate Medicine 2.0 — Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in the United States	2053
Thirst, Hunger, and Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus	2016
Snapshots	1883
Case 16-2021: A 37-Year-Old Woman with Abdominal Pain and Aortic Dilatation	1842
Recombinant ADAMTS13 for Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura	1787
Chilblain Lupus Erythematosus	1779
Black Dot Tinea Capitis	1661
Toward Gerineuropalliative Care for Patients with Dementia	1502
Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israel	1477
Year 1 of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement–Advanced Model	1440
Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab in Microsatellite-Instability–High Metastatic Colorectal Cancer	1409
Gender-Affirming Surgical Care in Carceral Settings	1375
The Way to a Patient’s Heart — Vascular Access in Cardiac Arrest	1357
FAIRS — A Framework for Evaluating the Inclusion of Sex in Clinical Algorithms	1355
Gene Therapy with Fidanacogene Elaparvovec in Adults with Hemophilia B	1347
When Low Tech Wins	1337
Trial of Training to Reduce Driver Inattention in Teens with ADHD	1307
Lower versus Higher Glycemic Criteria for Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes	1299
Monoclonal Antibodies for Malaria	1174

Liver Transplantation	1159
The RECOVERY Platform	1159
Neutralization against BA.2.75.2, BQ.1.1, and XBB from mRNA Bivalent Booster	1139
Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Type 1 Diabetes	1105
A Phase 3, Randomized Trial of Bulevirtide in Chronic Hepatitis D	1082
Pan-Sarbecovirus Neutralizing Antibodies in BNT162b2-Immunized SARS-CoV-1 Survivors	1073
Duration of Adjuvant Aromatase-Inhibitor Therapy in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer	1057
Controversy and Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease — FDA Approval of Aducanumab	1054
A Trial of Hyperimmune Globulin to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection	1041
On the Path toward Expanding Treatment Options for Diabetes	1040
Haloperidol for the Treatment of Delirium in ICU Patients	1015
Reversing Oral Anticoagulation in Intracerebral Hemorrhage	1012
(A Little) Clarity on Convalescent Plasma for Covid-19	949
Health Care Reform and the 2024 U.S. Elections — Low Visibility, High Stakes	937
The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Treatment of Public Health	920
Decompression Sickness and Arterial Gas Embolism	904
Timing Is Everything — Evidence for When to Perform Complete Revascularization in STEMI	899
Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells — A Portrait	898
BCMA-Targeted T-Cell–Engager Therapy for Autoimmune Disease	865
The Public Good on the Docket — The Supreme Court’s Evolving Approach to Public Health	847
Scleromyxedema	844
Choices in a Crisis — Individual Preferences among SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines	844
Hypothermia or Machine Perfusion in Kidney Donors	841
Advancing President Biden’s Equity Agenda — Lessons from Disparities Work	838
How Can We Fully Realize SNAP’s Health Benefits?	834
A Call for Antiracist Action	832
Adjuvant Pembrolizumab in Renal-Cell Carcinoma	809
Case 23-2022: A 49-Year-Old Man with Hypoglycemia	788
Skin Antisepsis before Surgical Fixation of Extremity Fractures	783
Deep Intronic FGF14 GAA Repeat Expansion in Late-Onset Cerebellar Ataxia	783
Cefepime–Taniborbactam in Complicated Urinary Tract Infection	781
Tenecteplase for Stroke — Opening the Window?	774
Dietary Zinc Deficiency–Associated Dermatitis in a Child	745
Evolution of Pyoderma Gangrenosum	739
New Hope for Adults with Lobar Intracerebral Hemorrhage	736
Long-Term Outcomes of Resynchronization–Defibrillation for Heart Failure	733
Open Schools, Covid-19, and Child and Teacher Morbidity in Sweden	723
On Calling	702
Cerebral Cystic Echinococcosis	700
A Pernicious Cycle Affecting Premalignant Stem Cells	691
Supporting Robust Teamwork — Bridging Technology and Organizational Science	683
Ensuring Public Trust in an Empowered FDA	682
“Ridding the Race of His Defective Blood” — Eugenics in the Journal , 1906–1948	679
Trust, Faith, and Covid	669
Urinary Schistosomiasis	661
Physicians, Spirituality, and Compassionate Patient Care	661
Encased in Peril	645
Kidney Disease and Antinephrin Antibodies	634
Delayed Large Local Reactions to mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines in Blacks, Indigenous Persons, and People of Color	633
Dolutegravir as First- or Second-Line Treatment for HIV-1 Infection in Children	633

Larva Currens in Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome	614
Race in Medicine — Genetic Variation, Social Categories, and Paths to Health Equity	602
Nutritional Support for Moderate-to-Late–Preterm Infants — A Randomized Trial	599
Testing for Arginine Vasopressin Deficiency	594
Efficacy and Safety of Bepirovirsen in Hepatitis B	575
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 after mRNA-1273 Vaccination	571
Necrobiosis Lipoidica	570
Childhood Risk Factors and Adult Cardiovascular Events	565
Reading Kafka in the Hospital Cafeteria	559
Restriction of Intravenous Fluid in ICU Patients with Septic Shock	550
Carbon-Footprint Analyses in RCTs — Toward Sustainable Clinical Practice	546
An Outbreak of Covid-19 on an Aircraft Carrier	544
Race-Based Screening under the Public Health Ethics Microscope — The Case of Prostate Cancer	540
“Hairy Kidney” in Erdheim–Chester Disease	540
Venetoclax in Relapsed or Refractory Hairy-Cell Leukemia	537
Case 36-2021: A 22-Year-Old Man with Pain and Erythema of the Left Hand	526
Mind the Gap — Timing of Cleft Palate Repair	521
Selpercatinib or Chemotherapy in RET Fusion–Positive NSCLC	520
Sleeve Sign and Inverse Gottron’s Papules in Anti-MDA5 Dermatomyositis	520
Extracorporeal CPR for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest	519
Code Switch	518
Retinoblastoma Origins and Destinations	516
Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Omicron Variant in South Africa	514
Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis	513
Avoiding Rash Decisions	510
Case 30-2024: A 45-Year-Old Woman with Kidney Lesions and Lytic Bone Disease	505
Prostate Biopsy in Men with an Elevated PSA Level — Reducing Overdiagnosis	502
Dobbs Revisited — Addressing Effects on Resident Training in Obstetrics and Gynecology	500
Ensuring a Safe and Sufficient Global Blood Supply	491
Phase 3 Trial of Cabozantinib to Treat Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors	490
Cognitive Motor Dissociation in Disorders of Consciousness	489
NEJM at ESMO — Phase 3 Trial of Cabozantinib in Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors	489
A Reason to Retire?	483
Autochthonous Leprosy in the United States	481
Threatening the Future of Global Health — NIH Policy Changes on International Research Collaborations	478
BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Covid-19 Mortality	477
Use of Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos	476
Spermatogonium-Derived Complete Hydatidiform Mole	476
Gastrointestinal Kaposi’s Sarcoma	472
Case 22-2024: A 30-Year-Old Woman with Postpartum Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Skin Ulcers	471
The Ethics of Relational AI — Expanding and Implementing the Belmont Principles	471
Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19 Pneumonia	462
Buprenorphine versus Methadone in Pregnancy	457
The Future of Transplantation	454
Hiding in Plain Sight	450
The Catfish King	450
Double Corneal Arcus	447
The Meat of the Matter	447
Parkinson’s Disease	443
How the Idea of Social Contagion Shaped Trans Medicine	438
Atrasentan in Patients with IgA Nephropathy	433
Pembrolizumab in HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer	431
Radical Prostatectomy or Watchful Waiting in Early Prostate Cancer	429
Secondary Syphilis with Osteitis	428
Tirzepatide for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity	427
Acne Fulminans	426
Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Several Eras	425
APOE3 Christchurch Heterozygosity and Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease	425
Ten-Year Outcomes after Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents	423
Gantenerumab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease	420
Family History: Unknown	419
Preparing for the Next Pandemic — Expanding and Coordinating Global Regulatory Capacity	414
Case 24-2024: A 30-Year-Old Woman with Postpartum Anxiety and Intrusive Thoughts	407
Studies of Exagamglogene Autotemcel — Age and Place	402
Déjà Vu All Over Again — Refusing to Learn the Lessons of Covid-19	402
Medicalizing the Constitution?	396
Expanding Accountable Care’s Reach among Medicare Beneficiaries	396
Intravenous Doxycycline, Azithromycin, or Both for Severe Scrub Typhus	393
Lessons for a Pandemic	391
Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers — Timing Is Everything	387
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine Efficacy against the B.1.351 Variant	385
Beyond the First Dose — Covid-19 Vaccine Follow-through and Continued Protective Measures	383
Specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 Editing in Exagamglogene Autotemcel	383
CRISPR-Cas9 In Vivo Gene Editing for Transthyretin Amyloidosis	382
State and Local Climate Litigation for Protecting Public Health	378
Case 6-2024: A 21-Year-Old Man with Fatigue and Night Sweats	377
Primaquine and Plasmodium vivax Malaria Recurrence in Brazil	373
Conjunctival Papilloma	371
Sharing Pathogen Genomic Sequence Data — Toward Effective Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response	367
Bringing Sickle-Cell Treatments to Children in Sub-Saharan Africa	367

How Should the FDA Evaluate Psychedelic Medicine?	366
Beyond Moral Injury — Can We Reclaim Agency, Belief, and Joy in Medicine?	365
Large-Bowel Obstruction from Hereditary Angioedema	365
Automatic Insurance Policies — Important Tools for Preventing Coverage Loss	365
The Anchor Strategy — A Place-Based Business Approach for Health Equity	364
A Belantamab Mafodotin Revival in Multiple Myeloma Therapy	364
Initiating the Era of “Precision” Lung Cancer Surgery	362
Targeting IDH in Low-Grade Glioma	357
A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis	356
The Vaccine-Hesitant Moment	355
Rice Bodies in Tenosynovitis Due to Psoriatic Arthritis	351
False Positive Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Tests	350
Extending Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for TIA or Stroke	350
Chronic Silicosis	349
Underestimated Challenges for Social Care Initiatives — Regulatory Compliance	348
Esophageal Varices, White-Nipple Sign, and Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy	347
Salt Substitute and Cardiovascular Events and Death	345
Pellagra	345
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in HER2-Low Breast Cancer	344
Locally Acquired Melioidosis Linked to Environment — Mississippi, 2020–2023	340
Perverse Incentives — HIV Prevention and the 340B Drug Pricing Program	337
Catching Up on REMs	337
The Promise and Perils of Psychedelics	335
Poet as Patient	334
Patella Alta	332
Investigating Injustices in the Journal ’s History, Part 2	332
The Plight of Primary Care, Part 2	330
Swimming	329
U.S. Law and Discrimination in Health Care	328
A Race to the Finish	327
Bempedoic Acid and the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease	326
Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis	325
A Modern Therapy for an Ancient Disease	325
Injustice Disorder	323
Audio Interview: Covid-19 and Health Equity	322
Audio Interview: Assessing Bivalent Vaccines against Covid-19	320
Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction	318
U.S. Health Insurance Coverage and Financing	318
Hemolacria	314
Thyroid Dermopathy in Graves’ Disease	312
Hemostasis — A Balancing Act	312
Esketamine Nasal Spray versus Quetiapine for Resistant Depression	309
Osimertinib with Chemotherapy in EGFR -Mutated NSCLC	308
Intravenous Levothyroxine for Unstable Brain-Dead Heart Donors	307
Incarcerated Obturator Hernia	307
Methemoglobinemia Outbreak in a Neonatal ICU and Maternity Ward	305
Terson’s Syndrome	303
Case 16-2023: A 13-Year-Old Boy with Depression and Hypotension	303
Expectant Management or Early Ibuprofen for Patent Ductus Arteriosus	302
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome	301
Baxdrostat for Treatment-Resistant Hypertension	300
Primary Diffuse Meningeal Melanomatosis	300
Artemisinin-Resistant HRP2-Negative Malaria in Eritrea	299
Continued Progress in the Development of Safe and Effective RSV Immunizations	299
Improving Trauma-Informed Care in the Face of Firearm Violence	297
Convalescent Rash of Dengue	293
Liver Transplantation for Mahvash Disease, an Inborn Error of Metabolism	292
Bifurcation-Lesion PCI Guided by OCT or Angiography	291
Modifiable Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Outcomes	291
Where Medical Statistics Meets Artificial Intelligence	290
Biochemical Recurrence in Prostate Cancer — Tilting the Scale	287
Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones	284
Familiar Shadows	282
Learning from the Bomb	280
Designing Cures 2.0 — From Corridors to Cornerstones	279
Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines — Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other	279
Medical and Public Health Imperatives of Xylazine	276
Somatic Mutations in “Benign” Disease	276
Case 26-2023: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Abdominal Pain and an Ovarian Mass	276
Paget’s Disease of the Breast	275
Mass Masking without Mandates — The Role of Gender in Mask Use in China	273
Case 36-2023: A 19-Year-Old Man with Diabetes and Kidney Cysts	270
Geographic Disparities in Rising Rates of Firearm-Related Homicide	267
Audio Interview: Covid-19 and the WHO	267
The Macro-Harm of Micro-Geography	267
Obesity in Pregnancy	266
Thinking Outside the Heart	266
A Shear Decline	265
Necrotizing Myositis	263
From Ashes to Action — Indigenous Health Perspectives on the Lāhainā Fires	262
Pulmonary Langerhans-Cell Histiocytosis	261
Chronic Urticaria	261
Fraud, Abuse, and Financial Conflicts of Interest	256
Removal of Small, Asymptomatic Kidney Stones and Relapse	255
Case 40-2022: A 38-Year-Old Man with Exertional Chest Discomfort	254
Discontinuation of RAS Inhibitors in Advanced CKD — Has Equipoise Occurred?	254
Thromboprophylaxis after Extremity Fracture — Time for Aspirin?	253
Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms	252
The Young and the Breathless	250
Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hemichorea	250
Cancer-Associated Hypercalcemia	250
Building a Better Insulin — Whom Will It Help?	249
Case 12-2023: A 44-Year-Old Woman with Muscle Weakness and Myalgia	249
Screening for Prostate Cancer	248
Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption	247