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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	542
Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?	243
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	90
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	88
Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis	81
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	65
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	46
COVID-19 presents opportunities and threats to transport and health	43
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	38
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	34
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	32
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	32
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	28
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	25
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	23
Improving adherence to ‘test, trace and isolate’	22
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	22
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	21
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	21
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	20
Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK	20
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	20

Maximising the impact of social prescribing on population health in the era of COVID-19	20
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	19
Transforming health through the metaverse	18
A price tag on clinical empathy? Factors influencing its cost-effectiveness	17
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	16
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	16
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	16
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: 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
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	14
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	14
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	14
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	12
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	12
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	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	12
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	11
Medical consumerism and the modern patient: successful ageing, self-management and the ‘fantastic prosumer’	10
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	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
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	10
COVID-19: the role of community in China’s response	9
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	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
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	8
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	8
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	8
Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century	8
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	8
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	7
Shoe leather epidemiology in the age of COVID: lessons from Cuba	7
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	7
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	7
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	7
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
COVID-19 and developing countries: lessons learnt from the Sri Lankan experience	7
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
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	6
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	6
Advancing UK regulatory science and innovation in healthcare	6
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	6
Defining and detecting fake news in health and medicine reporting	6
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	6

Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	6
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	6
Should we let fever run its course in the early stages of COVID-19?	6
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
The development of network meta-analysis	5
Is ‘inflammaging’ fuelling severe COVID-19 disease?	5
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	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
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	5
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
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
Social care need in multimorbidity	4
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	4
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	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
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	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
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	4
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?	4
UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now	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
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	4
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	4
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study	4
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?	3
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	3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	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
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	3
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	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
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	3
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation	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
Living with COVID	3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Recurrence of endometrial cancer in a hysterectomised patient treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer: a case report	3
Digitally enabled social prescriptions: adaptive interventions to promote health in children and young people	3
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies	3
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	3
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	3
Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing	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
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	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
Trust in healthcare	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3
Humility: the primary virtue of a good doctor	3
The poor relation: health education in English schools	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