OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Patient Education and Counseling is 34. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams	221
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective	98
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis	92
New Associate Editor of Patient Education and Counseling	92
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting	92
The role of accountability in adherence programs	85
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy	84
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review	72
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations	67
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.	63
A nurse-led approach to testing and adapting a telehealth guide for e-empathy in goals of care conversations for Black patients with chronic kidney disease	59
Development and national consensus finding on patient-centred high stakes communication skills assessments for the Swiss Federal Licensing Examination in Medicine	58
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives	54
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years	53
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients	52
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers	51
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice	48
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature	46
Healthcare professionals’ behaviour regarding the implementation of shared decision-making in screening programmes: A systematic review	43
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment	42
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]	41
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)	40
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children	40
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students	39
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design	39

“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology	38
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals	37
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review	37
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches	37
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review	37
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic	35
Taking pause: Drawing from the history of neurology during COVID-19	35
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network	35
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing	35
Postpartum Blues	34