Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
How to advocate for vulnerable groups127
Learning the craft – own experience100
A multivariate analysis to identify the relationship between sociodemographic differences and examination performance in UK postgraduate medical examinations89
Death Notices87
From JRSM Open60
From JRSM Open41
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?37
International medical graduates28
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Ethnicity, international medical graduates and patient outcomes22
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From JRSM Open21
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Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award18
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened17
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair17
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’16
The value of a good doctor15
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias15
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care14
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?14
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure13
John Keats: the mystery years13
Mainland’s Elementary Medical Statistics (1952): a pivotal text in statistical pedagogy13
Re: Interpretation of neuropsychiatric outcomes in trials of hypoglycaemic agents12
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT12
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 1: presumption and confusion on the road to randomisation12
Pharmaceutical industry payments to healthcare professional organisations in the United Kingdom: a seven-year cross-sectional analysis of the Disclosure UK database from 2015 to 202111
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective11
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS10
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Death Notices9
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research9
From JRSM Open9
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative9
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death8
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype8
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?8
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision8
Thinking about the thinking doctor8
Confronting three great men of cardiology This is an extract from Dr Samways Writes to the Editor, The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician (1857–1931) by Tom Treasure8
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis8
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies7
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance7
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages6
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education6
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding6
Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study6
Death Notices6
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The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 3: the double blind and the rise of ‘clinical pharmacology’6
Geopolitical tension as an emerging structural determinant of population mental health6
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval6
Forgetting is the clinical skill that separates human doctors from AI6
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading5
Healthcare and feminism5
Death Notices5
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’5
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis5
Death Notices5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?5
International medical graduates: a crisis of political choice5
From JRSM Open5
Death Notices4
The unsolved complexities inherent in informed patient choice4
A novel on the making of the Lancet and of Thomas Wakley, ‘the medical Florence Nightingale’4
The Ritchie Index Paper: some historical background on an early effort to establish objective measures in rheumatic diseases4
From JRSM Open4
From JRSM Open4
From JRSM Open4
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records4
Death Notices4
Long term sequelae of COVID-19: new data4
Racial, ethnic and regional differences in the effect of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists on cardiovascular and renal outcomes: a systematic rev4
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 14
Death Notices4
Death Notices4
Who is responsible when AI kills?4
Death Notices4
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Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia3
Death Notices3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England3
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons3
Death Notices3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?3
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals3
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people3
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice3
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An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations3
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
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Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning2
Death Notices2
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom2
Medical screening of elderly heads of state2
Non-training grades in the NHS workforce: the lost tribe?2
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard2
From JRSM Open2
Death Notices2
Vaccination in pregnancy: the vaccine bit is easy, the behaviour is hard2
Social care need in multimorbidity2
General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health2
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots2
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Beyond expansion: workforce absence, administration and the persistence of NHS elective backlogs2
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments2
Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism2
How does mortality compare between different countries/regions of birth for the population of England and Wales, 2007 to 2021? A descriptive, observational study2
Africa, climate change and the markets2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?2
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?2
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Ethnic differences in specialty destinations in UK medicine: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of secondary data2
From JRSM Open2
Medical education at the crossroads. Part II: postgraduate training and the future of clinical expertise2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm2
Medical misinformation and the crisis of professional authority1
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Learning the craft – general practice stories1
ReSPECT at the bedside – between design and reality1
The constitution, functions and skill sets of teams1
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study1
Death Notices1
When was randomisation first used in educational research? A brief historical methodological perspective1
From JRSM Open1
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 2: the advent and expansion of randomised controlled trials1
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From JRSM Open1
From JRSM Open1
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry1
Chairing a committee for what purpose? Chairing online and conferences?1
Death Notices1
English parallels to socialism: 1984–20241
Are we selecting the right medical students?1
Death Notices1
The concentration-dependent protective effects by new generation hypoglycemic agents on delirium, depression, dementia and coma: evidence from a network meta-analysis1
Patient-centred care: is it enough?1
Retraction Notice: “Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study”1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness1
The need for patient rights in AI-driven healthcare – risk-based regulation is not enough1
Doctors working in teams1
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 3: Mainland, Hill and the future of RCTs1
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon1
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland1
Death Notices1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science1
The NHS App should focus on inequalities to improve population health1
Global burden of malaria and neglected tropical diseases in children and adolescents, 1990–2019: a population-based, cross-sectional study1
What’s medicine for?1
Bad decision making on Earth and in space1
The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 2: Hill’s ‘pragmatic’ view of randomisation and its origins1
Death Notices1
From JRSM Open1
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?1
From JRSM Open1
Underpowered trials at trial start and informed consent: action is needed beyond the COVID-19 pandemic1
Using national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of a parsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19–a data-driven retrospective cohort study1
Patterns of long COVID symptoms among healthcare workers in the UK and variations by sociodemographic, clinical and occupational factors: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationwide study (UK-REACH)1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare1
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates1
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study1
How can the NHS be funded?1
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree1
Robotic techniques benefit anaesthesia too1
Beyond clinical toxicology: protecting our poisoned patients1
From JRSM Open1
When red flags become rules: managing diagnostic uncertainty in primary care1
Death Notices1
‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’1
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis1
Declaration of Helsinki: a new revision at sixty years1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 21
Fail to learn, learn to fail: a warning for the NHS1
Trusting in lived experience1
Death Notices1
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned1
Death Notices1
From JRSM Open1
Death Notices1
60th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: ethical challenges in the 10th amendment1
The craft of medicine1
A decade of deprioritisation? Ethnicity and health in the 10-year NHS plan1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises1
Continuity of care beyond access: measuring resolution rather than contact1
From JRSM Open1
Medical education at the crossroads. Part I: undergraduate education and the erosion of professional identity1
Arts, literature, and witchcraft: medicine’s many personalities1
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study1
How doctors think about their role in transgender care: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners and endocrinologists1
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Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question1
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