OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Legal Medicine is 21. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection—an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany	333
Inside the lungs of COVID-19 disease	83
Massive parallel sequencing in forensics: advantages, issues, technicalities, and prospects	72
Gross and histopathological pulmonary findings in a COVID-19 associated death during self-isolation	68
SARS-Cov-2 fulminant myocarditis: an autopsy and histopathological case study	59
Sudden cardiac death—update	49
Complete post-mortem data in a fatal case of COVID-19: clinical, radiological and pathological correlations	45
Postmortem investigation of fatalities following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines	38
Automated age estimation of young individuals based on 3D knee MRI using deep learning	37
A field study to evaluate PMI estimation methods for advanced decomposition stages	36
Impact of metal ions on PCR inhibition and RT-PCR efficiency	34
Towards fully automated third molar development staging in panoramic radiographs	32
Accurate age classification using manual method and deep convolutional neural network based on orthopantomogram images	32
Infectivity of deceased COVID-19 patients	31
New data about the 21st Century Identified Skeletal Collection (University of Coimbra, Portugal)	31
Comparison of different machine learning approaches to predict dental age using Demirjian’s staging approach	29
TMEM119 as a specific marker of microglia reaction in traumatic brain injury in postmortem examination	27
Postmortem examination of three SARS-CoV-2-positive autopsies including histopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis	27
SARS-CoV-2-related deaths in routine forensic autopsy practice: histopathological patterns	25
It is all about the insects: a retrospective on 20 years of forensic entomology highlights the importance of insects in legal investigations	23
Comparative use of aqueous humour 1H NMR metabolomics and potassium concentration for PMI estimation in an animal model	22
Advanced procedures for skull sex estimation using sexually dimorphic morphometric features	21
Evaluation and review of ways to differentiate sources of ethanol in postmortem blood	21
Postmortem age estimation via DNA methylation analysis in buccal swabs from corpses in different stages of decomposition—a “proof of principle” study	21