OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Policy is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 vaccine challenges: What have we learned so far and what remains to be done?	183
12 Lessons learned from the management of the coronavirus pandemic	131
United but divided: Policy responses and people’s perceptions in the EU during the COVID-19 outbreak	125
Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities	72
A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America	54
Quality improvement in healthcare: Six Sigma systematic review	49
Strengthening vaccination programmes and health systems in the European Union: A framework for action	48
Lean thinking in healthcare – Findings from a systematic literature network and bibliometric analysis	45
Practicing Corona – Towards a research agenda of health policies	43
A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea: Policy lessons for aging countries	42
European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave	41
The effectiveness of nudges in improving the self-management of patients with chronic diseases: A systematic literature review	39
New integrated care models in England associated with small reduction in hospital admissions in longer-term: A difference-in-differences analysis	35
When fear backfires: Emergency department accesses during the Covid-19 pandemic	35
Population density index and its use for distribution of Covid-19: A case study using Turkish data	34
The best person (or machine) for the job: Rethinking task shifting in healthcare	34
Interventions promoting employee “speaking-up” within healthcare workplaces: A systematic narrative review of the international literature	33
Overview and transparency of non-research payments to healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals from pharmaceutical companies in Japan: Analysis of payment data in 2016	32
Transforming towards sustainable health and wellbeing systems: Eight guiding principles based on the experiences of nine Dutch Population Health Management initiatives	30
Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic	30
Providing health services effectively during the first wave of COVID-19: A cross-country comparison on planning services, managing cases, and maintaining essential services	28
Hospital staff shortages: Environmental and organizational determinants and implications for patient satisfaction	28
The impact of price transparency on consumers and providers: A scoping review	28
The impact of patient and public involvement in health research versus healthcare: A scoping review of reviews	27
Do health systems cover the mouth? Comparing dental care coverage for older adults in eight jurisdictions	27

School openings and the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A provincial-level analysis using the synthetic control method	27
Transformations in the landscape of primary health care during COVID-19: Themes from the European region	26
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control COVID-19	26
A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe	26