OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	477
Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?	217
Uncertainty and COVID-19: how are we to respond?	166
The primary care response to COVID-19 in England's National Health Service	100
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	86
Environmental impact of personal protective equipment distributed for use by health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic	82
Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis	80
Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight	66
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	64
Loneliness, social isolation, cardiovascular disease and mortality: a synthesis of the literature and conceptual framework	64
Anger and confrontation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey in the UK	51
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction	45
COVID-19 presents opportunities and threats to transport and health	42
Clinical impact of multi-parameter continuous non-invasive monitoring in hospital wards: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Health inequalities: the hidden cost of COVID-19 in NHS hospital trusts?	38
COVID-19: the great unequaliser	36
Developing a sustainable exit strategy for COVID-19: health, economic and public policy implications	35
What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate and support’ systems?	33
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	30
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	30
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	29
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	29
Protecting older people from COVID-19: should the United Kingdom start at age 60?	23
Improving adherence to ‘test, trace and isolate’	22
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	22

COVID-19 and the ‘Spanish' flu	22
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	22
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	21
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	20
Maximising the impact of social prescribing on population health in the era of COVID-19	20
Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK	20
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	18
Preparing for COVID-19’s aftermath: simple steps to address social determinants of health	17
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	16
Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups	16
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	16
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	16
COVID-19 in India	15
A price tag on clinical empathy? Factors influencing its cost-effectiveness	15
The potential effectiveness of the WHO International Health Regulations capacity requirements on control of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of 114 countries	15
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	15
Osteoporosis, like skin ageing, is caused by collagen loss which is reversible	14
Transforming health through the metaverse	14
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	13
Sponsorship bias in clinical trials: growing menace or dawning realisation?	13
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	13
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	13
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	12
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	12
A socially just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action on the social determinants of urban health inequalities	12
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	11
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	11
Medical consumerism and the modern patient: successful ageing, self-management and the ‘fantastic prosumer’	10
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	10
The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine. Part 1: ancient roots, familiar disputes	9
Test and trace strategy has overlooked importance of clinical input, clinical oversight and integration	9
Fixing England’s COVID-19 response: learning from international experience	9
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study	9
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	9
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	9
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	8
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	8
COVID-19: the role of community in China’s response	8
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	8
COVID-19 and developing countries: lessons learnt from the Sri Lankan experience	7
Shoe leather epidemiology in the age of COVID: lessons from Cuba	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century	7
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	7
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	7
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	6
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	6

Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	6
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	6
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	6
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1990–present: organisational issues and the rise of the robots	6
Data-driven, integrated primary and secondary care for children: moving from policy to practice	6
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	6
Advancing UK regulatory science and innovation in healthcare	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
Defining and detecting fake news in health and medicine reporting	5
Should we let fever run its course in the early stages of COVID-19?	5
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	5
The development of network meta-analysis	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
Is ‘inflammaging’ fuelling severe COVID-19 disease?	5
Intensive versus standard blood pressure control in older persons with or without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	5
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	5
COVID-19, seasonal influenza and measles: potential triple burden and the role of flu and MMR vaccines	5
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
COVID-19: fail to prepare, prepare to fail	4
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns	4
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	4
Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 2: the context of medicine and public health	4
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	4
The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine – Part 2: the emergence of probability theory and its limitations	4
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?	4
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study	4
UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now	4
Social care need in multimorbidity	4
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months	4
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	4
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	4
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	4
Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 1: the context of the social sciences	4
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	3
Developing a culture of stewardship: how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in universal health systems	3
COVID 19: questioning and change must be the new normal	3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	3
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	3
The coronavirus pandemic: can we handle such epidemics better?	3
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	3
COVID-19 and its impact on the clinical specialty training recruitment process: lessons learned and the shape of future specialty recruitment in the UK	3
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	3
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	3
Recurrence of endometrial cancer in a hysterectomised patient treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer: a case report	3
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
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 rev	3
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	3
Humility: the primary virtue of a good doctor	3
The poor relation: health education in English schools	3
Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing	3
Living with COVID	3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?	3
What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?	3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	3
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3