OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is 44. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Visualizing the value of diagnostic tests and prediction models, part III. Numerical example with discrete risk groups and miscalibration	313
Meta-analysis of individual participant data and informed consent: a small step, but important and neglected	250
Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 10: developing recommendations about diagnostic tests and strategies	210
Empirical evaluation of the methods used in systematic reviews including observational studies and randomized trials	205
Strong and high-quality evidence synthesis needs Cochrane: a statement of support by the GRADE Guidance Group	152
Editorial Board	135
The construct of certainty of evidence has not been disseminated to systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines; response to ‘The GRADE Working Group’ et al	128
A general explanation of the counterfactual definition of confounding	126
Use of artificial intelligence to support the assessment of the methodological quality of systematic reviews	118
Harms were detected but not reported in six clinical trials of gabapentin	117
Statistical robustness of randomized controlled trials in high-impact journals has improved but was low across medical specialties	116
Corrigendum to ‘Identifying type 1 and 2 diabetes in research datasets where classification biomarkers are unavailable: assessing the accuracy of published approaches’ [Journal of Clinical Epidemiolog	115
Reporting of funding and conflicts of interest improved from preprints to peer-reviewed publications of biomedical research	99
Pharmacovigilance studies without a priori hypothesis: systematic review highlights inappropriate multiple testing correction procedures	97
Screening colonoscopy similarly prevented distal and proximal colorectal cancer: a prospective study among 55–69-year-olds	95
Advances in methodologies of negative controls: a scoping review	95
A Bayesian-adaptive decision-theoretic approach can reduce the sample sizes for multiarm exercise oncology trials	92
RETRACTED: Part II: a step-by-step guide to latent class analysis	87
Integrating personomics into precision medicine	84
Types and associated methodologies of overviews of reviews in health care: a methodological study with published examples	80
Measuring the environmental impact of health interventions in randomized controlled trials – A scoping review	79
External validation, impact assessment and clinical utilization of clinical prediction models: a prospective cohort study	78
Predicting COVID-19 prognosis in the ICU remained challenging: external validation in a multinational regional cohort	75
External validation of six COVID-19 prognostic models for predicting mortality risk in older populations in a hospital, primary care, and nursing home setting	67
Potential interactions between digoxin and direct oral anticoagulants: application of cohort & novel case-crossover designs	61

Two-decade health-related quality of life and performance on physical function tests in midaged women: findings from a prospective cohort study	61
Recording harms in randomized controlled trials of behavior change interventions: a scoping review and map of the evidence	61
Evaluation of tools used to assess adherence to PRISMA 2020 reveals inconsistent methods and poor tool implementability: part I of a systematic review	61
The walking man approach to interpreting the receiver operating characteristic curve and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve	60
Results reporting for clinical trials led by medical universities and university hospitals in the nordic countries was often missing or delayed	57
Librarian involvement in systematic reviews was associated with higher quality of reported search methods: a cross-sectional survey	56
GRADE guidance 39: using GRADE-ADOLOPMENT to adopt, adapt or create contextualized recommendations from source guidelines and evidence syntheses	56
JBI series paper 2: tailored evidence synthesis approaches are required to answer diverse questions: a pragmatic evidence synthesis toolkit from JBI	56
Searching two or more databases decreased the risk of missing relevant studies: a metaresearch study	53
Methodological use and report of AMSTAR 2: a cross-sectional study	52
Handling missing data in clinical research	52
Table of Contents	51
Editors' Choice September 2024	50
Editors’ Choice: October 2024	49
The World Conference on Research Integrity 2024	47
Methodological quality assessment tools for diagnosis and prognosis research: overview and guidance	46
Heterogeneity across outcomes reported in clinical trials for older adults with depression: a systematic survey	45
Maternal early warning scores shown to be methodologically weak and at high risk of bias	45
Is it time for a common peer review format for biomedical journals?	44
Year-to-year variation in attack rates could result in underpowered respiratory syncytial virus vaccine efficacy trials	44