OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Rheumatology is 19. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	191
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	60
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	50
Urticarial vasculitis	46
Editorial introduction	46
Current views on lupus in children	39
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	39
Editorial introductions	34
The safety of glucocorticoids in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease: new evidence	31
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	31
Patient-reported outcomes in systemic sclerosis: insights into quality of life and disease burden	31
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	30
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	29
Comorbidities in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: population-based evidence on risk subgroups and implications for delivery of care	26
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	26
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	25
A comprehensive review of systemic sclerosis–primary biliary cholangitis overlap: emerging evidence for a distinct clinical subtype	22
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	21
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	20
Updates on translational and clinical research in systemic sclerosis	19
Editorial introductions	19