OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Croatian Medical Journal is 4. 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
Opportunities and risks of ChatGPT in medicine, science, and academic publishing: a modern Promethean dilemma	105
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on lifestyle and mood in Croatian general population: a cross-sectional study	93
The importance of introducing artificial intelligence to the medical curriculum – assessing practitioners’ perspectives	29
Determinants and reasons for coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine hesitancy in Croatia	17
The pathogenesis of bone metastasis in solid tumors: a review	16
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – a procoagulant condition?	15
The anatomy lesson of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: irreplaceable tradition (cadaver work) and new didactics of digital technology	15
Waning immunity six months after BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination among nursing home residents in Zagreb, Croatia	14
A validation of the Croatian version of Zarit Burden Interview and clinical predictors of caregiver burden in informal caregivers of patients with dementia: a cross-sectional study	12
Sepsis and septic shock – an observational study of the incidence, management, and mortality predictors in a medical intensive care unit	12
Bayesian meta-analysis now – let's do it	12
Health workforce shortage – doing the right things or doing things right?	12
The associations of age, sex, and comorbidities with survival of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019: data from 4014 patients from a tertiary-center registry	11
Compassionate mesenchymal stem cell treatment in a severe COVID-19 patient: a case report	10
Incidence and risk factors for venous and arterial thromboses in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019: data on 4014 patients from a tertiary center registry	10
Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics	10
Isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic as re-traumatization of war experiences	10
Could fluvoxamine keep COVID-19 patients out of hospitals and intensive care units?	10
Epidemiological and clinical features of Croatian children and adolescents with a PCR-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019: differences between the first and second epidemic wave	10
Social media use, habits and attitudes toward e-professionalism among medicine and dental medicine students: a quantitative cross-sectional study	9
The analysis of waiting time and utilization of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Croatia: a nationwide survey	9
Axon morphology of rapid Golgi-stained pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia	8
The effects of diagnosis-related groups payment on efficiency of the hospital health care in Croatia	8
Anterior quadratus lumborum block for ambulatory laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a randomized controlled trial	8
Undiagnosed hypertension in Croatia	8

Does the CCR5-Δ32 mutation explain the variable coronavirus-2019 pandemic statistics in Europe?	8
Coronavirus epidemic in Croatia: case fatality decline during summer?	8
Applicability and prognostic value of frailty assessment tools among hospitalized patients with advanced chronic liver disease	8
Real-life experience with remdesivir for treatment of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients: matched case-control study from a large tertiary hospital registry	8
Does damage to hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus underlie symptoms of ultradian rhythm disorder and an increased anxiety in coronavirus disease 2019?	8
Risk factors and severity of functional impairment in long COVID: a single-center experience in Croatia	7
Kallikrein gene family as biomarkers for recurrent prostate cancer	7
Healthcare crisis in Ukraine – worrying consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war	7
Senhance robot-assisted adrenalectomy: a case series	6
Comparison of recovery after sugammadex or neostigmine reversal of rocuronium in geriatric patients undergoing spine surgery: a randomized controlled trial	6
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease – a growing public health problem	6
Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms in spontaneous preterm birth: a case-control study	6
Relationship between disease impact scores and C-reactive protein/albumin ratio in patients with psoriatic arthritis	6
A potential effect of psilocybin on anxiety in neurotic personality structures in adolescents	6
Improving breast cancer prediction using a pattern recognition network with optimal feature subsets	5
An update to the custom-made MS Excel workbook performing the log-rank test with extended functionality and a new original COVID-19 training data set	5
Infection with human cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and high-risk types 16 and 18 of human papillomavirus in EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma	5
Is there a need for creators of imaginary authors to face legal consequences?	5
Exploring the adoption of ChatGPT in academic publishing: insights and lessons for scientific writing	5
The cost of care for people living with stable HIV in Croatia and the efficiency of EmERGE	5
The use of infrared technology as a novel approach for studies with female laboratory animals	5
Adherence to epidemiological measures and related knowledge and attitudes during the coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic in Croatia: a cross-sectional study	5
Comparison of prognostic scores for alcoholic hepatitis: a retrospective study	5
Crude annual incidence rate of medullary thyroid cancer and RET mutation frequency	5
The vicious interplay between disrupted sleep and malignant brain tumors: a narrative review	5
Prevalence of somatic comorbidities among coronavirus disease 2019 patients in Croatia in the first pandemic wave: data from national public health databases	5
Microsurgical versus endoscopic surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas: a retrospective study	5
The reliability of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody testing – a pilot study in asymptomatic health care workers in a Croatian university hospital	5
Clinical characteristics of hospitalized adults and adolescents with herpes zoster in Croatia: more than 20 years of a single-center experience	5
Differentiating comorbidities and predicting prognosis in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers	4
Vaccination intention among healthcare workers during the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in relation to knowledge: a cross-sectional study in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Poland	4
Salivary cortisol response to psychosocial stress in patients with first-episode psychosis	4
Unusual pattern of inferior vena cava thrombosis after veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a report of two cases	4
Distribution of human papillomavirus genotypes in women with high-grade cervical intraepithelial lesions and cervical carcinoma and analysis of human papillomavirus-16 genomic variants	4
Croatian genetic heritage: an updated Y-chromosome story	4
Association between colonization of the respiratory tract with Ureaplasma species and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborns with extremely low gestational age: a retrospective study	4
Medicinal signaling cells niche in stromal vascular fraction from lipoaspirate and microfragmented counterpart	4
Patterns of anticoagulation therapy in atrial fibrillation: results from a large real-life single-center registry	4
Translation of the Headache-Attributed Restriction, Disability, Social Handicap and Impaired Participation (HARDSHIP) questionnaire into the Croatian language, and its diagnostic validation	4
Non-REM parasomnias: a scoping review of dreams and dreamlike mentation	4
Safety and efficacy of nivolumab as a second line therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective chart review	4
Serum C-reactive protein to albumin ratio as a novel inflammation biomarker in psoriasis patients treated with adalimumab, ustekinumab, infliximab, and secukinumab: a retrospective study	4
Changes in sexually transmitted infections-related sexual risk-taking among young Croatian adults: a 2005-2021 three-wave population-based study	4
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and coping with the lockdown among help-seeking veterans before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Uroguanylin increases Ca2+ concentration in astrocytes via guanylate cyclase C-independent signaling pathway	4
Epidemiological characteristics, baseline clinical features, and outcomes of critically ill patients treated in a coronavirus disease 2019 tertiary center in continental Croatia	4
Serotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates among Croatian adults during a fifteen-year period (2005-2019)	4
Prognostic relevance of autophagy-related markers p62, LC3, and Beclin1 in ovarian cancer	4
Intraoperative superior hypogastric plexus block for pain relief after a cesarean section: a case-control study	4