OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Forensic Science International is 21. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase: A biomarker for authentication of death from mechanical asphyxia	46
Editorial Board	45
A systematic approach to the analysis of illicit drugs for DNA with an overview of the problems encountered	45
X-STR analysis: Allele and haplotype diversity in the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina	36
Molecular identification of fungi associated with advanced decomposition at a human taphonomy facility in Canada	34
A Survey on forensic odontologists’ activity in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
The panoramic radiograph archive of the human craniological collection housed at the Human Anatomy Museum in Turin	34
Forensic intelligence-led prevention of drug-facilitated sexual assaults.	31
The population of textile fibres on parapets of high-rise housing in Singapore	31
A NEW WAY BACK TO AN ARTIFICIAL FUTURE for BioMedicoLegal and Forensic Sciences	30
T1 and T2 signal appearance of different age stages of intracranial hemorrhage in post-mortem MRI	29
Use of potassium ion channel and spliceosome proteins as diagnostic biomarkers for sudden unexplained death in schizophrenia	29
Recovery of DNA from acetaminophen exploring physical state and sampling methods	29
Perspectives and opportunities in forensic human, animal, and plant integrative genomics in the Pangenome era	29
Kirk’s ‘Ontogeny of Criminalistics’ revisited under the lens of the Sydney Declaration	26
Dental age assessment based on CBCT images using machine learning algorithms	25
Automated sex and age estimation from orthopantomograms using deep learning: A comparison with human predictions	23
Environmental DNA as a tool for detecting illegal wildlife trade	22
Technical note: The impact of image size on bloodstain pattern analysis using machine learning	22
Detection and characterisation of a new nitazene analogue, butodesnitazene: A collaborative approach to the identification of novel psychoactive substances through Drug Checking	22
Centre of gravity of motor vehicles	21
Emerging nuclear methods for historical painting authentication: AMS-14C dating, MeV-SIMS and O-PTIR imaging, global IBA, differential-PIXE and full-field PIXE mapping	21
From degraded to deciphered: Applying ATAC-seq to forensic molecular diagnosis under degradation conditions	21
Diagnostic value of serum thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC) in fatal asthma	21
Outside-in hair contamination by blood containing opiates and opioids	21

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