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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Update on antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis in children	168
Giant cell arteritis: update on pathogenesis and clinical implications	71
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management	57
Editorial introduction	51
Current approach to muscle imaging in myositis	46
Current views on lupus in children	45
Urticarial vasculitis	44
Editorial introductions	36
Axial spondyloarthritis guidelines – aiming for maximum impact	33
Osteoporosis epidemiology using international cohorts	31
The safety of glucocorticoids in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease: new evidence	31
Juvenile Behçet syndrome: a contemporary view and differential diagnosis in pediatric practice	29
Patient-reported outcomes in systemic sclerosis: insights into quality of life and disease burden	29
The gut microbiota in spondyloarthritis: an update	28
Composite measures to assess disease damage, disease severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis clinical trials	27
Rheumatoid arthritis – the challenge of heterogeneity	26
A comprehensive review of systemic sclerosis–primary biliary cholangitis overlap: emerging evidence for a distinct clinical subtype	26
Recent advances in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, predict flares, and enrich clinical trials in lupus	26
Editorial introductions	24
Updates on translational and clinical research in systemic sclerosis	21
The role of PET/CT in disease activity assessment in patients with large vessel vasculitis	20
Editorial introductions	20