OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Health is 16. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Use of electronic health records to manage tobacco screening and treatment in rural primary care	146
Individual‐ and environmental‐level determinants of fruit and vegetable intakes in rural Georgia	78
An updated model of rural hospital financial distress	61
Cancer disparities in Appalachian Kentucky	60
Rural/urban differences in access to paid sick leave among full‐time workers	45
Changes in access to community health services among rural areas affected and unaffected by hospital closures between 2006 and 2018: A comparative interrupted time series study	44
“Live your life cuz everybody's terminal”: Describing emotions and coping behaviors of rural advanced cancer patients	37
Higher prevalence of hysterectomy among rural women than urban women: Implications for measures of disparities in uterine and cervical cancers	33
Rural disparities in end‐of‐life care for patients with heart failure: Are they due to geography or socioeconomic disparity?	29
Who produces and funds rural health research?	21
The Journal of Rural Health Reviewers, July 2020‐June 2021	20
Farm vehicle crashes on public roads: Analysis of farm‐level factors	20
Nurse practitioner scope of practice and the prevention of foot complications in rural diabetes patients	18
Communities with an anchor institution have higher coronavirus vaccination rates	17
Rural‐urban differences in social and emotional protective factors and their association with child health and flourishing	17
Urban–rural differences in cancer mortality: Operationalizing rurality	17
Effect of residence in nonmetropolitan counties on stage and tumor size at diagnosis in patients with breast cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis	16
Changes in transmucosal buprenorphine utilization for opioid use disorder treatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Kentucky	16
Evaluation of treatment access and scope of a multistate hepatitis C virus Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes telehealth service in the US Indian Health System, 2017‐2021	16
Travel burden in a rural primary care behavioral weight loss randomized trial: Impact on visit attendance and weight loss	16