OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Prenatal Diagnosis is 23. 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
Preterm delivery, maternal death, and vertical transmission in a pregnant woman with COVID‐19 infection	183
Diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for prenatal diagnosis of fetal structural anomalies: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	75
Mechanisms and evidence of vertical transmission of infections in pregnancy including SARS‐CoV‐2s	47
Rapid whole exome sequencing in pregnancies to identify the underlying genetic cause in fetuses with congenital anomalies detected by ultrasound imaging	47
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms	42
Short‐ and long‐term outcomes of gestational diabetes and its treatment on fetal development	42
Uniparental disomy: Origin, frequency, and clinical significance	39
Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy: A review of published blastocyst reanalysis concordance data	39
Fetal brain and placental programming in maternal obesity: A review of human and animal model studies	39
International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis Position Statement: cell free (cf)DNA screening for Down syndrome in multiple pregnancies	38
International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis Updated Position Statement on the use of genome‐wide sequencing for prenatal diagnosis	37
Artificial placenta and womb technology: Past, current, and future challenges towards clinical translation	35
A prospective study on rapid exome sequencing as a diagnostic test for multiple congenital anomalies on fetal ultrasound	35
Origins and mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in human eggs	33
Current controversies in prenatal diagnosis: Expanded NIPT that includes conditions other than trisomies 13, 18, and 21 should be offered	33
Perinatal exposure to maternal obesity: Lasting cardiometabolic impact on offspring	31
Chromosomal mosaicism: Origins and clinical implications in preimplantation and prenatal diagnosis	27
Outcome of fetal echogenic bowel: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	26
Noninvasive prenatal testing as compared to chorionic villus sampling is more sensitive for the detection of confined placental mosaicism involving the cytotrophoblast	26
Congenital syphilis: A contemporary update on an ancient disease	26
Whole‐exome sequencing in the evaluation of fetal congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract detected by ultrasonography	24
Evaluation and classification of severity for 176 genes on an expanded carrier screening panel	24
Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of cleft palate without cleft lip, the new ultrasound semiology	24
Overview and recent developments in cell‐based noninvasive prenatal testing	23
Couples experiences of receiving uncertain results following prenatal microarray or exome sequencing: A mixed‐methods systematic review	23

Noninvasive screening for congenital heart defects using a serum metabolomics approach	23
Confirmation rate of cell free DNA screening for sex chromosomal abnormalities according to the method of confirmatory testing	23