OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ophthalmic Epidemiology is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Eye Strain Epidemic amid COVID-19 Pandemic – A Cross-sectional Survey	74
Prevalence of Self-Reported Symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome and Associated Risk Factors among School Students in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic	28
Prevalence and Incidence of Uveitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	28
INCIDENCE OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS KERATITIS AND OTHER OCULAR DISEASE: GLOBAL REVIEW AND ESTIMATES	23
Dry Eye and Visual Display Terminal-Related Symptoms among University Students during the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic	20
Self-Reported Vision Impairment and Psychological Distress in U.S. Adults	18
“Depression, Anxiety and Stress” in a Cohort of Registered Practicing Ophthalmic Surgeons, Post Lockdown during COVID-19 Pandemic in India	18
Evaluation of Tablet-Based Tests of Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity in Older Adults	17
Usage Patterns of Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) Differ by Glaucoma Type: IRIS Registry Analysis 2013–2018	16
Association of Systemic Inflammatory Factors with Progression to Advanced Age-related Macular Degeneration	15
A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Infectious and Non-infectious Conjunctivitis	14
The Vision Detroit Project: Visual Burden, Barriers, and Access to Eye Care in an Urban Setting	14
WHO Vision 2020: Have We Done It?	13
Correlation between Keratoconus and Pollution	12
Epidemiology of United States Inpatient Open Globe Injuries from 2009-2015	11
Status of Eye Health among School Children in South India – Sankara Nethralaya School Children Eye Examination Study (SN-SEES)	11
Telemedical Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in a Primary Care Setting: Quality of Retinal Photographs and Accuracy of Automated Image Analysis	11
The Postnatal Growth and Retinopathy of Prematurity Model: A Multi-institutional Validation Study	11
Global Ophthalmology Practice Patterns during COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown	11
Prevalence of pediatric eye disease in the optumlabs data warehouse	11
Comparison of the Clinical Efficacies of 0.01% Atropine and Orthokeratology in Controlling the Progression of Myopia in Children	10
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dry Eye Diagnosis and Care	10
Risk Factors Influencing the Occurrence and Severity of Symptomatic Dry Eye Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Study	10
A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Age-related Macular Degeneration	10
Factors Affecting the Time to Publication in Ophthalmology Journals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis	10

A Review of Studies of the Association of Vision-Related Quality of Life with Measures of Visual Function and Structure in Patients with Glaucoma in the United States	10
Ocular Trauma During the COVID-19 Lockdown	10
Trends in Healthcare Research on Visual Impairment and Blindness: Use of Bibliometrics and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis	9
Impact of Early COVID-19 Pandemic on Common Ophthalmic Procedures Volumes: A US Claims-Based Analysis	9
Blindness Secondary to Retinopathy of Prematurity in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMPLEX CATARACT SURGERY AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH IN FLORIDA	9
Biogeographical and Altitudinal Distribution of Cataract: A Nine-Year Experience Using Electronic Medical Record-Driven Big Data Analytics in India	8
Community based vision screening in preschool children; performance of the Spot Vision Screener and optotype testing	8
Tutorial on Biostatistics: Receiver-Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis for Correlated Eye Data	8
A READABILITY COMPARISON OF ONLINE SPANISH AND ENGLISH PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIALS ABOUT VISION HEALTH	8
Temporal Trends over a Decade in Serious Vision Impairment in a Large, Nationally Representative Population-based Sample of Older Americans: Gender, Cohort and Racial/Ethnic Differences	8
Refractive Error Findings in Students Who Failed School-based Vision Screening	8
Loss to Follow up among Glaucoma Patients at a Tertiary Eye Center over 10 Years: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes	7
Mask-associated Dry Eye Syndrome in Healthcare Professionals as a New Complication Caused by the Prolonged Use of Masks during Covid-19 Pandemic Period	7
Fungal Keratitis in the Egyptian Delta: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Microbiological Diagnosis	7
The Impact of Adult Uveitis on Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study	7
Annual Direct Economic Burden and Influencing Factors of Dry Eye Diseases in Central China	7
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Simultaneously Collected Tear and Throat Swab Samples from the Patients with 2019- new SARS-CoV-2 Infection Disease: A Single Center Cross-sectional Study	7
The Incidence of Retinoblastoma in South Africa: Findings from the South African National Cancer Registry (2004–2018)	6
Prevalence of Trachomatous Trichiasis in Ten Evaluation Units of Embu and Kitui Counties, Kenya	6
Blindness and Visual Impairment Situation in Indonesia Based on Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Surveys in 15 Provinces	6
Development and Evaluation of a Rules-based Algorithm for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in the VA Million Veteran Program	6
Prevalence of Diabetic Eye Diseases in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) as Identified by the Indian Health Service’s National Teleophthalmology Program Using Ultrawide Field Imaging (UWFI)	6
Prevalence of Trachoma from 66 Impact Surveys in 52 Woredas of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ and Sidama Regions of Ethiopia, 2017–2019	6
Age- and Sex-Standardized Prevalence of Age-Related Cataract and Its Determinants; Tehran Geriatric Eye Study (TGES)	6
Population Prevalence of Trachoma in Nine Rural Non-Indigenous Evaluation Units of Brazil	6
Eye Abnormalities in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review	6
Ophthalmology Self-medication Practices: A Questionnaire-based Study	6
Public Interest in Cataract Surgery: Analysis and Implications of Google Trends Data from 14 European Countries	6
Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness in Elderly Population; an Urgent Geriatric Health Issue: Tehran Geriatric Eye Study (TGES)	6
Causes of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Early Childhood at a Low Vision Service in Mexico City: A 15-year Review	6
Intraocular Pressure, Age, and Central Corneal Thickness in a Healthy Chinese Children Population: The Handan Offspring Myopia Study	5
Optical Coherence Tomography–Based Prevalence of Diabetic Macular Edema and its Associated Risk Factors in Urban South India: A Population–Based Study	5
Psychometric Properties of Scales for Assessing the Vision-related Quality of Life of People with Low Vision: A Systematic Review	5
Prevalence of Uncorrected Refractive Error and Its Risk Factors; Tehran Geriatric Eye Study (TGES)	5
The Prevalence of Diagnosis of Major Eye Diseases and their Associated Payments in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program	5
Treatment Exit Options for Non-infectious Uveitis (TOFU): Study Protocol for a Prospective Clinical Registry	5
Cataract Surgery Outcomes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive Patients at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in the United States	5
Genetic Epidemiology of Primary Congenital Glaucoma in the 22 Arab Countries: A Systematic Review	5
The Direct Healthcare Cost of Stargardt Disease: A Claims-Based Analysis	5
Delayed Diagnosis of Amblyopia in Children of Lower Socioeconomic Families: The Hong Kong Children Eye Study	5
Tropical Data: Approach and Methodology as Applied to Trachoma Prevalence Surveys	5
Factors Associated with the Spectacle Wear Compliance among Primary School Students with Refractive Error in Rural China	5
Effect of Cycloplegia on Refractive Error Measure in Chinese School Students	5
Changes in Eye Health and Service Coverage in Nampula, Mozambique between 2011 and 2018	4
A Comprehensive Assessment of Co-occurring Birth Defects among Infants with Non-Syndromic Anophthalmia or Microphthalmia	4
Visual Impairment, Eye Disease, and 3-Year Cognitive Decline: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	4
Self-Reported Vision Impairment and Food Insecurity in the US: National Health Interview Survey, 2011–2018	4
Baseline Prevalence of Trachoma in 21 Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, North East Nigeria	4
Awareness on Eye Donation in the North-eastern State of Tripura, India – The Tripura Eye Survey	4

Air Pollution and Chronic Eye Disease in Adults: A Scoping Review	4
Smartphone-based Anterior Segment Imaging: A Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy Study of a Potential Tool for Blindness Prevalence Surveys	4
The Diagnostic Value of Circulating VEGF in Diabetic Retinopathy in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	4
Vision Screening Requirements for School-age Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Does Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Treatment Influence Patient Falls and Mobility? A Systematic Review	4
Decomposition of Economic Inequality in Cataract Surgery Using Oaxaca Blinder Decomposition: Tehran Geriatric Eye Study (TGES)	4
Predictive Factors for Corneal Scarring in Progressive Keratoconus Patients after Corneal Collagen Cross-linking	4
Eye drops for dry eye disease during pregnancy and adverse neonatal outcomes: high-dimensional propensity score analyses	4
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in ocular surface squamous neoplasia: a National Cancer Database analysis	4
The Risk and Protective Factors for Pediatric Eye Injuries: A Case-Crossover Study	4
Dropped Nucleus during Cataract Surgery in South India: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes	4
A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations Conducted for Interventions to Screen, Treat, and Manage Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada	4
Prevalence and Patterns of Refractive Errors in Children and Young Adults in an Urban Region in South India: the Hyderabad Eye Study	4
Cataract Surgery Numbers in U.S. Ophthalmology Residency Programs: An ACGME Case Log Analysis	4
COMPARISON OF SMARTPHONE-BASED AND AUTOMATED REFRACTION WITH SUBJECTIVE REFRACTION FOR SCREENING OF REFRACTIVE ERRORS	4
Gene-environment Interaction in Spherical Equivalent and Myopia: An Evidence-based Review	4
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire Assessing Patient Distress from Preoperative Fasting in Cataract Surgery	4