OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annals of Medicine is 33. 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
Regarding: association between body mass index, metabolic syndrome and common urologic conditions: a cross-sectional study using a large multi-institutional database from the United States	414
Emergency decompression for patients with ureteral stones and SIRS: a prospective randomized clinical study	351
Clinical characterization and founder effect analysis in Chinese amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with SOD1 common variants	334
Burden of gastrointestinal cancers among adolescent and young adults in Asia-Pacific region: trends from 1990 to 2019 and future predictions to 2044	104
Dengue and zika seropositivity, burden, endemicity, and cocirculation antibodies in Nigeria	95
Pulmonary rehabilitation assessment in COPD based on the ICF brief core set: a latent profile analysis	80
Unipolar atrial electrogram morphology is affected by age: evidence from high-resolution epicardial mapping	78
Ipatasertib, an oral AKT inhibitor, in combination with carboplatin exhibits anti-proliferative effects in uterine serous carcinoma	78
Comparison of binocular visual quality in six treatment protocols for bilateral cataract surgery with presbyopia correction: a prospective two-center single-blinded cohort study	74
Development and validation of prediction models for poor sleep quality among older adults in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era	73
Prognostic significance of the Gustave Roussy immune (GRIm) score in cancer patients: a meta-analysis	69
Causes of death and trends in mortality from the year 2000 to 2017 in patients with acute myocardial infarction	68
Fecal calprotectin as an indicator in risk stratification of pouchitis following ileal pouch–anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis	66
Clinical features and endovascular treatment of ruptured peripheral cerebral aneurysms associated with moyamoya disease: an 8-year single-center experience	64
Enamel matrix derivative in the treatment of tooth replantation: from a biological basis to clinical application	53
Venous thromboembolism treatment failure during use of factor Xa inhibitors—association with thoracic outlet syndrome and development of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension	51
Effect of different training modalities on lipid metabolism in patients with type ii diabetes mellitus: a network meta-analysis	48
Role of calcification in J-CTO score: a viewpoint of intraplaque guidewire tracking techniques	47
Pain, function and peritendinous effusion improvement after dry needling in patients with long head of biceps brachii tendinopathy: a single-blind randomized clinical trial	44
Progress in diagnosis and treatment of hypertension combined with left ventricular hypertrophy	44
Prognostic significance of pathological response and lymph node status in neoadjuvant immunotherapy for potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer	43
Scoring and validation of a simple model for predicting diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes based on a meta-analysis approach of 21 cohorts	43
“Comparison of Nissen Rossetti and Floppy Nissen techniques in laparoscopic reflux surgery”	41
Regarding ‘experiences of young adults affected by cancer within an 8-week yoga intervention delivered by videoconference: a qualitative interview study’	41
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of respiratory syncytial virus, SARS-CoV-2 and influenza paediatric viral respiratory infections in southwest Saudi Arabia	40

Comparative efficacy and safety profile of once-weekly Semaglutide versus once-daily Sitagliptin as an add-on to metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Examining knowledge and traditional practices of mothers with children under five in Turkey on diarrhoea according to education levels	38
Machine learning in infectious diseases: potential applications and limitations	37
Hospitalized children with COVID-19 infection during large outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain: a retrospective study in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China	36
Audit of clinical and laboratory parameters of hemoglobin SS patients in a Nigerian teaching hospital	35
Relative fat mass assessment estimates changes in adiposity among female older adults with obesity after a 12-month exercise and diet intervention	34
Outcomes of adolescents and young adults with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukaemia treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors	33
A MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based haemoglobin chain quantification method for rapid screen of thalassaemia	33
Primary care management of Long-Term opioid therapy	33