British Journal of General Practice

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal of General Practice is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Perceptions of Risk143
Scientific reasons to question teleconsultations in expert general practice102
Yonder: Parkinson’s spouses, weight-loss surgery, pension participation, and male nurses90
Books:Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine89
Fragmented80
Correction66
Corrections66
The Aboriginal definition of health64
Author response53
Non-speculum sampling for cervical screening52
Responding to the war in Israel and Palestine46
Cervical screening: the evolving landscape43
Surviving in scrubs: sexism, sexual harassment, and assault in the primary care workforce38
Self-prescription34
The Health Benefits Of Universal Basic Income34
Introducing genetic testing with case finding for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: qualitative study of patient and health professional experience31
Faecal immunochemical test: challenges and opportunities for cancer diagnosis in primary care31
Video consultations: a potential gamechanger in clinical education30
Primary care: the sleeping giant of research delivery28
Southgate’s sign28
Is general practice like guacamole … or more like Whack-A-Mole?26
The existentialist GP26
Symptom appraisal and help-seeking before a cancer diagnosis during pregnancy: a qualitative study25
Books: Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative25
Identifying people at risk of rheumatoid arthritis in primary care: qualitative study25
'The experiences, perspectives, and needs of young people who access support for mental health in primary care: a systematic review'25
Antidepressants and risk of postural hypotension: a self-controlled case series study24
Addressing hidden tensions and grey areas of general practice: a qualitative study of the experiences of newly qualified GPs attending a course on generalist medicine23
Optimising the use of the prostate-specific antigen blood test in asymptomatic men for early prostate cancer detection in primary care: report from a UK clinical consensus22
Yonder: Prescribing cascades, teacher wait time, online services for mental health conditions, and community deep vein thrombosis pathways22
A secret medicine21
Book review:The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines21
Long COVID: playing the long game20
GP workload and patient safety20
Experiences of integrating social prescribing link workers into primary care in England — bolting on, fitting in, or belonging: a realist evaluation20
Regarding general practice: an appeal to the new UK Government20
An ethnography of General Practice inpatient discharge summary management for older patients20
GPs’ perspectives on diagnosing childhood urinary tract infections: a qualitative study19
Association between hip pain and radiographic hip osteoarthritis in primary care: the CHECK cohort19
New NICE guidance on acne vulgaris: implications for first-line management in primary care19
Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records: a qualitative study in UK primary care19
Opportunities and challenges in early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in general practice18
Arwen18
TheNHS Long Term Workforce Plan: what does this mean for general practices?18
Resident and early-career family physicians’ focused practice choices in Canada: a qualitative study18
There’s a lot to learn from Neighbour18
Interpretation of ethnicity-specific data: increased risk versus increased utilisation18
Television: This Is Going to Hurt18
Depression follow-up monitoring with the PHQ-9: open cluster-randomised controlled trial17
Recent GP consultation before death by suicide in middle-aged males: a national consecutive case series study16
Generating gender generalists16
Books: Hags: the Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women16
Symptom appraisal and help seeking in males with symptoms of possible prostate cancer: a qualitative study with an ethnically diverse sample in London16
Not obsolete, yet16
Tongue-tie and breastfeeding problems16
The Sticky Floor and the Importance of Role Models16
Urine collection devices to reduce contamination in urine samples for diagnosis of uncomplicated UTI: a single-blind randomised controlled trial in primary care16
Managing pilonidal sinus disease16
Yonder: Pre-operative anxiety, breast cancer screening, patient decision aids, and medicinal cannabis16
Women’s information needs around urine testing for urinary tract infections: a qualitative study15
Increasing bowel cancer screening using SMS in general practice: the SMARTscreen trial.15
Risk prediction models for symptomatic patients with bladder and kidney cancer: a systematic review15
Yonder: Online feedback, simulated telephone consultations, BMI, and grit14
Rethinking trust: the role of the Wise GP14
Migrants in vulnerable circumstances: not a quick fix14
Correction14
Ramadan and women’s health14
Pandemics, climate change, and antibiotic resistance14
Diagnostic windows in non-neoplastic diseases: a systematic review13
Realising the potential of home blood pressure monitoring in the community: should HBPM be the default?13
Targeted holistic review of patients’ medicines is well overdue13
Books:Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention13
What do we want of doctors beside biomedical science?13
Cost-effectiveness of oral ondansetron for children with acute gastroenteritis in primary care: a randomised controlled trial12
Books: Spike: the Virus v the People — the Inside Story12
The Last King of Scotland: using film to explore our understanding of professionalism12
75 years on and it’s business as unusual12
Melanoma risk assessment and management: a qualitative study among Australian GPs12
Yonder: Frailty, gestational diabetes, shared cancer care, and Positive Health12
Failure to launch12
Iron supplementation in women: impact of frequency on efficacy and tolerability12
Research Paper of the Year 2021: relevant to training and beyond11
Stigma: the water we swim in11
Short-acting betaagonists and asthma11
Improving care for fathers with perinatal depression in the community11
Locum doctor use in English general practice: analysis of routinely collected workforce data 2017–202011
Charging for NHS care and its impact on maternal health11
Predicting the risk of acute kidney injury in primary care: derivation and validation of STRATIFY-AKI11
What drives the ‘sick note culture’ in the UK?11
Books:Side Effects. How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way And How We Fix It11
Poems:Reflection On My Practice11
Finding meaning in the consultation: supporting the hermeneutic window in practice11
Impact of a case-management intervention for reducing emergency attendance on primary care: randomised control trial11
Atypical melanoma: clinicopathological features and management in general practice11
Books:Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing11
Adverse effects for patients in big group practices11
Socioeconomic differences in help seeking for colorectal cancer symptoms during COVID-1910
Clinical prediction tools to identify patients at highest risk of myeloma in primary care10
Yonder #100: Nasal sprays, obstetric ultrasound, binge eating disorder, and emergency departments10
Corrections10
John Diamond Did Not Battle Cancer Bravely10
Books: Zero. Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in A Post-Pandemic NHS10
Prophylactic macrolides for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the community: a decision for GPs9
Development and external validation of a new clinical prediction model for early recognition of sepsis9
What is the essence of general practice?9
Recognising the value of a bunch of tulips in general practice9
Managing paediatric gastroenteritis in primary care: is there a role for ondansetron?9
Yonder: Migrant workers, compassionate touch, puberty, and Happify9
Our children are sitting ducks9
Yonder: Brexit, preventable hospitalisations, prescribing assessments, and doctor retention9
Non-specific symptoms-based pathways for diagnosing less common cancers in primary care: a service evaluation9
Why GPs need to be involved in mental health research9
Books: The Long Covid Self-Help Guide. Practical Ways To Manage Symptoms9
The global primary care crisis8
Rational self-interest and the inverse care law: how Rawls and Nozick might have reflected on Julian Tudor Hart’s problem8
Alone: General Practice8
Digital facilitation: supporting the use of NHS digital and online services8
Inflammatory marker testing in primary care in the year before Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis: a UK population-based case–control study in patients aged ≤50 years8
A medical student’s perspective on current ‘GP bashing’: what are we signing up for?8
Effective management of male lower urinary tract symptoms in primary care8
Flag-waving and learning to dance8
Safeguarding and children’s oral health: what to look out for in primary care8
Breaking the cycle of inequalities for people with a learning disability8
Meeting the challenge of medical student placement capacity in primary care by rewiring later-career GPs8
Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients: a federated analysis of 57.9 million patients’ primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY8
Disease patterns in high-cost individuals with multimorbidity: a retrospective cross-sectional study in primary care8
Yonder: Sleep health, advanced liver disease, CombiConsultations, and #BetterHealth8
Primary care consultation patterns before suicide: a nationally representative case–control study8
Mapping opportunities for the earlier diagnosis of psoriasis in primary care settings in the UK: results from two matched case–control studies8
Antibiotic effectiveness for children with lower respiratory infections: prospective cohort and trial in primary care8
Adverse respiratory outcomes amongst patients with resolved asthma: matched retrospective cohort study8
Just do it! Ten easy ways to enhance empathy in the consultation8
Readability of general practice websites and the BJGP8
Correction8
How can we work together to keep you safe? A simple and effective intervention that can save lives8
Environmentally friendly inhalers: issues for the general practice consultation8
Seeing the timber and the trees7
Prescribing benzodiazepines in young adults with anxiety: a qualitative study of GP perspectives7
Primary care health professionals’ approach to clinical coding: a qualitative interview study7
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency7
Continuity of care and effective clinical experience overcoming medicolegal vulnerability7
How to be a triple bottom line general practice: working for profit, the people, and the planet7
Yonder: Primary aldosteronism, artificial intelligence, irritable bowel syndrome, and financial toxicity7
Perspective of Dutch healthcare professionals on care for female urinary incontinence: a mixed-methods study7
Advance care planning among older adults with a Turkish background and palliative care needs: a qualitative interview study7
Engagement with a local African-Caribbean community to explore perspectives and research priorities among Black men for prostate cancer using a co-participatory approach7
Inequities in hypertension: we can do better ... but how?7
GPs’ views of prescribing beta- blockers for people with anxiety disorders: a qualitative study7
Satisfaction with remote consultations in primary care during COVID-19: a population survey of UK adults7
Remote by default general practice: must we, should we, dare we?7
Doctor who?7
General practice after COVID-19: a greater role for remote patient monitoring7
Yonder: Breastmilk expression, mild cognitive impairment, Ramadan, and 111 online — an ‘invisible service’7
Withdrawing from SSRI antidepressants: advice for primary care7
GPs’ interest in integrated care for frail older adults and corresponding consulting and prescribing data: qualitative and quantitative analyses of the PAERPA integrated care project7
Risks of delivering care by telephone or video in general practice: review of national complaints data7
Kobayashi Maru7
Judgement of data saturation7
Support for primary care prescribing for adult ADHD in England: national survey7
Spotlight on drug-resistantShigella: raising awareness within general practice7
From anatomy to GP and back again: lessons from an academic full-circle7
Author response7
REM sleep behaviour disorder: the importance of early identification in primary care7
Do you still need your licence to practise? Some reflections for British GPs7
New developments and expansion of the GP in-hours syndromic surveillance system: collaboration between UKHSA and the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics Digital Hub7
Rethinking continuity in primary care for people with mesothelioma7
Ten things I wish I had known about academic primary care7
Seeing and hearing7
‘Getting it write’ in a new era of patient online access to primary care health records6
What interventions have addressed the inverse care law in general practice in Scotland over the last 20 years? A systematic scoping review6
Fidelity to and utility of a home blood pressure self-monitoring regime in people with pre-hypertension: results from the REVERSE study6
General practice in the UK’s response to the Türkiye and Syrian earthquakes6
What can we learn from speaking to asthma patients more than once? The power of qualitative longitudinal design in primary care research6
Guidance on faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) to help diagnose colorectal cancer among symptomatic patients in primary care6
Diverging at the horizon6
Clustering populations by health and social care with multiple long-term conditions: a cohort study — the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)6
Patients’ and GPs’ views and expectations of home monitoring with a pulse oximeter: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a pilot randomised controlled trial6
Team climate, job satsfaction and burnout: results from a national survey of staff in general practice in England6
The influence of GPs’ personal experience on perceived competence in depression management6
Can remote testing for chronic kidney disease improve outcomes without widening existing health inequalities? A collaborative quality improvement project in primary care6
Could primary care records be used to identify women at risk of perinatal anxiety? A mixed-methods study6
Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review of the quantitative and qualitative evidence of its diagnostic accuracy in primary care6
Determinants of medical student’s perception of general practice6
Influence of health-system change on treatment burden: a systematic review6
Should we be advising patients to take their antihypertensives at night?6
Interpreting negative test results when assessing cancer risk in general practice6
Managing withdrawal symptoms using tapering strips6
Supporting people in Early Intervention in Psychosis services: the role of primary care6
Crisis Rescue Foundation Vaxi Taxi/health and wellbeing pop-ups project6
Sewage in UK waters: a raw deal for wild swimmers6
‘There’s never really been an opportunity’: perspectives of those with long-term conditions on advance care planning, a qualitative interview study in primary care6
Starting point for improving the approach to vertigo in primary care6
Gender incongruence in primary care: are GPs trained?6
Medical treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding in primary care: 10-year data from the ECLIPSE trial6
Always winter, but never Christmas: does general practice need a magic wardrobe, or a TARDIS?6
Books:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks5
The role of the GP in maximising school attendance5
A personal reflection on leadership and empowerment5
Underserved Deep End populations: a critical analysis addressing the power imbalance in research5
Nigel Stott: an appreciation5
Factors influencing symptom appraisal and help-seeking of older adults with possible cancer: a mixed-methods systematic review5
From mother to daughter: imparting general wisdom from a career working in general practice5
Postural tachycardia syndrome and long COVID: an update5
The pathway to better primary care for chronic liver disease5
Liver disease management as routine work in primary care: a qualitative interview study to guide implementation5
GDP, CPI, RPI, and GPs: why economic indicators matter for GPs5
Inclusion health and missingness in health care: dig where you stand5
A seven-point manifesto for upstream training in general practice5
Books:Why We Get the Wrong Politicians5
Role of GPs in shared decision making with patients about palliative cancer treatment: a qualitative study in the Netherlands5
Association of strong opioids and antibiotics prescribing with GP burnout: a retrospective cross-sectional study5
The digital front door: demise of the ‘therapeutic history’?5
Trends in the prescription of drugs used for insomnia: an open-cohort study in Australian general practice, 2011–20185
Safety netting in the COVID-19 Clinical Assessment Service5
Role of locum GPs in antibiotic prescribing and stewardship: a mixed-methods study5
Medical musings: GPs should be the orchestra5
Ten things I wish I had known about academic primary care5
Postnatal care: new NICE guideline for the ‘Cinderella service’5
Yonder: Care coordination, anal cancer prevention, lay online communication, and positive body image5
A duty to expose: professionalism in a time of crisis5
UK general practice service delivery research priorities: an adapted James Lind Alliance approach5
Books:How Westminster Works … And Why it Doesn’t5
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
Rewiggling general practice5
The Fast Track FIT study: diagnostic accuracy of faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin in patients with suspected colorectal cancer5
Development and external validation of a new clinical prediction model for early recognition of sepsis in adult patients in primary care: a diagnostic study5
Poem: For Whom Do You Serve?4
Poem: Post Heart Attack Review4
Patient influence on general practice service improvement decision making: a participatory research mixed-methods intervention study4
A brief vulnerability4
MHRA Drug Safety Update — topical steroids4
A limited view of socioeconomically deprived communities4
Avoiding hospital admissions this winter: the challenge for general practice4
Imaginary Medical Solutions4
Acutely ill children, safety netting, and NHS printers4
An empathy definition at last: exposing the narcissism of small differences4
Should I Take Aspirin? (SITA): randomised controlled trial of a decision aid for cancer chemoprevention4
LGBTQ+ drug and alcohol use: discrimination breeds disparity4
The association between cancer risk assessment tool use and GP consultation duration: an observational study4
Clinical activity in general practice before sarcoma diagnosis: an Australian cohort study4
External validation of a prognostic model to improve prediction of psychosis: a retrospective cohort study in primary care4
Poem: Crab Apples4
Better health for all: public health and general practice working together4
Assessing children who are acutely ill in general practice using the National PEWS and LqSOFA clinical scores: a retrospective cohort study4
Addressing the political determinants of health4
Strengthening general practice will help improve longevity and could reduce health inequalities4
Implementing the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme in seven English Primary Care Networks: a qualitative study4
Reforming primary palliative care: a call to arms4
Are good GPs holistic?4
Five stocking fillers for the woke GP4
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