OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Rheumatology is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial introduction	244
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	67
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	62
What's next in psoriatic arthritis therapy? A look at the pipeline	53
Epidemiology and outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis	50
Current views on lupus in children	49
Selective immunoglobulin E deficiency: an overlooked hypogammaglobulinemia and its association with rheumatoid arthritis	49
Urticarial vasculitis	47
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	39
Editorial introductions	35
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	35
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	34
Patient-reported outcomes in systemic sclerosis: insights into quality of life and disease burden	34
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	30
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	25
A comprehensive review of systemic sclerosis–primary biliary cholangitis overlap: emerging evidence for a distinct clinical subtype	24
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	23
Comorbidities in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: population-based evidence on risk subgroups and implications for delivery of care	22
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	21
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	21
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	20