OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	566
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	99
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	92
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	69
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction	50
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	49
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	36
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	36
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	32
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	30
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	30
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	29
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	28
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	27
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	24
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	22
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	21
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	19
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	19
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	19
Transforming health through the metaverse	19
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	17
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	17
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	16
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	16

Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	15
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	15
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	14
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	14
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	14
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	13
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	13
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	12
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	11
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	10
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	10
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	10
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study	10
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	9
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	9
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	9
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	8
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	8
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	8
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	8
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	8
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1990–present: organisational issues and the rise of the robots	7
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
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	7
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	7
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	7
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	7
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	6
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	6
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	6
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	6
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England’s hospitals	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
The development of network meta-analysis	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	5
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	5
Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England	5
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	5
COVID-19, seasonal influenza and measles: potential triple burden and the role of flu and MMR vaccines	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
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?	4

UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now	4
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	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
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 study	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
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
The poor relation: health education in English schools	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
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	4
Trust in healthcare	4
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	4
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	4
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation	4
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	4
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	4
What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?	3
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	3
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 study	3
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	3
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism	3
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	3
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	3
Ethnic differences in success at application for consultant posts among United Kingdom physicians from 2011 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study	3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?	3
Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on COVID-19 hospital admissions in England during 2021: an observational study	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	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
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?	3
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis	3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study	3
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	3
Social care need in multimorbidity	3
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	3
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making	3
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health	3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	3
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects	2
What’s medicine for?	2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	2
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions	2
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?	2
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis	2
Protecting the public from the adverse effects of confused research ethics	2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review	2
If I were minister for health, I would … review the four-hour waiting time in the emergency department	2
How to avoid harmful national quarantines: primary care led local public health: a historical perspective	2
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
COVID-21: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	2
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study	2
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry	2
‘Managed convergence’ in health system digitalisation	2
U-turns or no turns? Charting a safer course in health policy	2
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials	2
Recent advances in treatment of haemodialysis	2
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives	2
Why we need the Office for Minority Health	2
‘Values to value’ for recovery and renewal: prudent healthcare the key to transforming the health and care system	2
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	2
COVID-19: state failure is our misery and their jackpot	2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	2
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	2
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults	2
Uses and abuses of real-world data in generating evidence during a pandemic	2
Doctor apprenticeships: a dilemma for the future of general practice in the NHS	2
COVID-19 and the denial of structural racism	2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	2
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Communicating medicine: new ways, new audiences	2
The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?	2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality	2