OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
DNA damage in children with β-thalassemia minor: genotoxicity assessment by comet assay	21
Successful percutaneous retrieval of fractured umbilical artery catheter in a very low birth weight preterm neonate	17
The role of proangiogenic cytokines in predicting sepsis in febrile neutropenic children with cancer	13
A rare association of osteogenesis imperfecta and juvenile idiopathic arthritis: case reports and literature review	12
A case of crescentic glomerulonephritis with exacerbation of pre-existing IgA nephropathy after COVID-19	11
Novel <i>FUCA1</i> variants in two families, including the first report of a contiguous gene deletion syndrome involving <i>FUCA1</i> and <i>HMGCL</i>	11
Clinicopathological features and treatment of aggressive natural killer cell leukemia: case series and literature review	11
Assessment of factors affecting timing of discharge in pediatric cancer patients with febrile neutropenia	11
Phenotypes of persistent hen`s egg allergy in children and adolescents	9
Decoding joint complaints in children: a diagnostic approach to rheumatic and non-rheumatic disorders	9
Beyond contamination rates: a broader lens on diagnosing neonatal sepsis	9
Turkish pediatricians’ knowledge, attitudes, and awareness of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and immunization strategies: a cross-sectional study	8
Comparison of pediatric antibiotic prescribing practice between low and high prescribers for children in primary care	7
Comparison of ocular posterior segment parameters in the pediatric population with migraine without aura and tension-type headache	7
Camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome and an unusual association with mitral stenosis	7
Endoscopic treatment of periampullary duodenal duplication cyts in an 18-month-old girl	7
Influenza vaccination rates in children: a multicenter nationwide study	7
The Health-Related Quality of Life scores and joint health in children and young adults with hemophilia	7
Evaluation of thymic dimensions in patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome	7
Successful management of sudden cardiac arrest in an adolescent with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy	7
Increased serum YKL-40 levels in children with sickle cell disease	7
A rare cause of congenital diarrhea: a homozygous <i>AGR2</i> frameshift variant in an infant	7
Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell therapy for a neonate with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and adhesive small bowel obstruction	7
Celiac disease and catatonia: more than a coincidence?	6
Nutritional rickets in Turkish and refugee children aged 0-2: an increasing problem despite vitamin D prophylaxis	6

A child with intravascular fasciitis mimicking deep vein thrombosis: a case report	6
Complicated acute appendicitis in children: the importance of stewarding antibiotic prescriptions	6
Three cases of tufting enteropathy and review of literature	6
Isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in adolescence: Do we need to measure the pituitary, stalk or other imaging markers? A retrospective magnetic resonance imaging study	6
Factors affecting distal femoral cartilage in healthy adolescents: a cross-sectional ultrasonographic study	6
Prognostic value of serum vitamin D level for renal scarring in childhood acute pyelonephritis	6
Nasal polyps in childhood: insights from a pediatric pulmonology cohort	6
Comparison of mothers of adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus and mothers of healthy adolescents in terms of difficulty in emotion regulation, depression and anxiety levels and clinical	6
Eligibility of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) modulator therapies: cohort of cystic fibrosis registry of Türkiye	5
A common problem in infants: vitamin B<sub>12 </sub>deficienc	5
Electrical cardiometry and lung ultrasound in detection of volume overload in pediatric patients on hemodialysis	5
Is vasoactive-inotropic score associated with early lactate clearance a predictive outcome of children with septic shock?	5
Should we prioritize proton beam therapy before making a decision on orthotopic liver transplantation for unresectable hepatoblastoma?	5
Association of miR-149 gene rs2292832 polymorphism with necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants	5
Diabetes care: role of the adolescent medicine specialists	5
Assessment of the changing trends in maternal knowledge about management of fever and antibiotic use in the last decade in Türkiye	5
Twelve years of experience in the treatment of newborns with intrauterine gastrointestinal perforation	5
Three Afghani siblings with a novel homozygous variant and further delineation of the clinical features of METTL5 related intellectual disability syndrome	5
Dietary adequacies and anthropometric measurements in children with poor appetite according to their mothers	5
Hypomagnesemia as a primary clue for the diagnosis of 17q12 deletion syndrome associated with spinal syringomyelia: a case report	5
Hemoglobin cast nephropathy: a rare but serious complication of hemolysis in a pediatric patient	5
Lipid emulsion resuscitation for intractable calcium channel blocker toxicity in pediatric patients	5
Comparative analysis of surgical costs vs. theoretical tiopronin therapy in pediatric cystinuria: a single-center experience from Türkiye	5
Clarifying the statistical reporting in the multivariate analysis of retinopathy of prematurity biomarkers	5
3q29 microdeletion syndrome associated with developmental delay and pulmonary stenosis: a case report	5
Evaluation of thymopoiesis in healthy Turkish children aged 0-6 years	5
Response to “Clarifying the statistical reporting in the multivariate analysis of retinopathy of prematurity biomarkers”	5
Prognostic value of early treatment response to craniospinal irradiation in diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumors: a case series	5
Predictive value of dynamic plasma biomarkers for clinical outcomes in pediatric sepsis	5
Rehospitalization indications of children hospitalized for COVID-19 infections and long COVID	5
Rethinking gender differences in social media–related eating behaviors	5
Characterization of lingual microbiota in pediatric geographic tongue	4
Clinical findings of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis	4
Spontaneous renal pelvis perforation in a single kidney child	4
Adolescent male soccer players have higher growth rates and risk of injury is associated with biological maturity	4
Bridging the gap: knowledge deficits and adherence challenges in adolescents with congenital heart disease	4
The effect of granulocyte colony stimulating factor on genotoxicity in allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation donors: a prospective case-control study	4
Heart rate variability as a marker of autonomic dysfunction in children with primary Raynaud’s phenomenon	4
Oxytocin levels in children with childhood-onset fluency disorder	4
Author Correction to: “Disseminated cryptococcosis in a child with liver transplantation: a case report.” [Turk J Pediatr 2024; 66: 499-504.]	4
Adaptation of the Problem Areas in Diabetes-Teen Scale into Turkish and examination of its psychometric properties: a validity and reliability study	4
Retrospective validation of the postnatal growth and retinopathy of prematurity (G-ROP) and Colorado retinopathy of prematurity (CO-ROP) models in a Turkish cohort	4
Prevalence of premenstrual syndrome in adolescent girls	4
Association of socio-demographic factors with measles vaccination coverage among Indonesian children aged 12-23 months: a nationwide study	4
Possible effects of N-acetylcysteine in autism spectrum disorders: major clinical aspects, eating behaviors, and sleeping habits	4
The relationship between microRNA-155-5p and postoperative inflammatory markers in children with acute suppurative appendicitis and its role in predicting postoperative complications	4
Change in Gasdermin-D gene expression in familial Mediterranean fever compared to healthy children with or without acute infections	4
A giant ovarian mucinous cystadenoma in a postmenarchal adolescent girl	4
Evaluation of forensic toxicological characteristics of cases under the age of eighteen with substance use: a sample from Türkiye	4
Pediatric pulmonologists’ current practices and variations in flexible bronchoscopy: a national survey study from Türkiye	4

Effectiveness of a blood culture bundle in reducing contamination rates in a neonatal intensive care unit	4
The relationship between smoking, alcohol, and substance abuse and psychiatric diseases among adolescents treated in a child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient unit	4
Risk factors of disease severity and mechanical ventilation requirement in childhood Guillain-Barré Syndrome	4
Barriers and facilitators of pediatric adherence to antiretroviral therapy: perspectives from caregivers in Türkiye	4
Matrix metalloproteinase-7 and matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression is upregulated in congenital lung malformations	4
Evaluation of the relationship between neonatal serum asprosin levels and anthropometric measurements in newborns of mothers with and without gestational diabetes mellitus	4
Changes in skin barrier integrity by electrical impedance spectroscopy during dupilumab treatment on a child with severe atopic dermatitis	3
Attitudes of parents with children aged 12-18 to COVID-19 vaccines for themselves and their children	3
Relationship between placental autophagy and inflammasome activities with morbidity of extremely preterm infants	3
Duodenal Dieulafoy lesion: a rare pathogeny of gastrointestinal bleeding in children	3
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy associated with Sjögren`s syndrome in a child	3
Anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and quality of life in parents of children with first unprovoked seizure and epilepsy	3
Evaluation of the relationship between cardiopulmonary exercise test findings and clinical status in children and adolescents with congenital heart disease	3
The role of certain perinatal features in the early motor repertoire of infants	3
Pediatricians` attitudes, practices, and perceived barriers to school readiness	3
Successful desensitization protocol for pyridostigmine in a 12 year old patient with myasthenia gravis	3
Local control and toxicity outcomes following consolidative radiation therapy in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma: a 20-year experience at a single center	3
Prevalence and determinants of suspected scoliosis in fifth-grade students: a population-based school screening study	3
Severe myxedema coma and pericardial effusion in a child with Down syndrome: the importance of adherence to levothyroxine therapy	3
Multidisciplinary treatment for acute massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to post-burn stress in a paediatric patient: a case report	3
The expectant management of a rare neonatal disease: transient neonatal myasthenia gravis	3
A pediatric case with hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with COVID-19, which progressed to end-stage kidney disease	3
Evaluation of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children aged 4-10 years with autism spectrum disorder	3
Disruptive behaviors in early childhood: the influence of family practices and functionality in a Turkish sample	3
Pediatric cervicofacial actinomycosis presenting with mandibular osteomyelitis: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge and literature review	3
Outcomes of newborns with tracheostomy: single center experience	3
Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome: a rare, yet recognizable syndrome	3
Response to `Attitudes of parents with children aged 12-18 to COVID-19 vaccines for themselves and their children: vaccine hesitancy in Türkiye`	3
Plasma cotinine levels and sleep disturbances in children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke	3
Pulmonary involvement in children with Langerhans cell histiocytosis	3
Polyarteritis nodosa with life-threatening intracranial aneurysms in a child, and treatment with infliximab	3
Childhood borderline lepromatous leprosy: a case report	3
Functional gastrointestinal disorders in Turkish infants: impact of feeding practices, sleep quality, and maternal depression	3
Evaluation of ischemia-modified albumin in the diagnosis and the clinical severity of COVID-19 in children	3
SARS-CoV-2 related encephalitis requires documentation of the virus in the cerebrospinal fluid	3
Common viral respiratory infections in children with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter study from Türkiye	3
Impact of a structured influenza seminar on pediatric residents’ knowledge and attitudes: a pre-post single-group study	3
Fatal thrombotic microangiopathy in an infant with COVID-19: a case report	3
Diagnostic value and clinical significance of lncRNA <i>NEAT1 </i>combined with miR-425-3p in children with viral myocarditis	3
Comprehensive phenotypic characterization of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> isolates from cystic fibrosis patients: antimicrobial susceptibility, tolerance, hypermutation, biofilm formation	3
Decreased antioxidant capacity with serum native thiol and total thiol levels in children with hemophilia A: a prospective case-control study	3
Clinically important intracranial abnormalities in children presenting with first focal seizure	3
Late-presenting congenital diaphragmatic hernia in a child with gastric perforation and acute pancreatitis	3
Comparison of prematurity-related outcomes and complications in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates fed with mother’s own milk versus donor milk: a comparative study	3
Early period intensive care follow-up after liver transplantation in children: a single center experience	3
Implications of serial magnetic resonance imaging in the management of a newborn with vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation and a review of the relevant literature	3
A pediatric-onset case of chronic kidney disease caused by a novel sporadic <i>ACTN4</i> variant and literature review	3
Prognostic significance of mean platelet volume to platelet count ratio in pediatric patients with acute kidney injury	3
Dyskinesia due to mexiletine overdose: a rare presentation	3
Treatment of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis: conventional treatment versus biologics	3
Sociodemographic and social barriers to early detection of autism	3
Problematic social media use and eating behaviors in adolescence: gender-based differences	3
A case with short stature and proteinuria: atypical presentation of a family with m.3243A>G mutation	3
Evaluation of patients diagnosed with phenylketonuria and biotinidase deficiency by the newborn screening program: a ten-year retrospective study	3
Perianal and gluteal parasitic abscess of <i>Enterobius vermicularis</i>: case report and review of the literature	3
Vaccine refusal risk factors among parents of children with autism spectrum disorders	3
Procalcitonin and proadrenomedullin in pediatric acute leukemia: biomarkers for infection and beyond	3