OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Critical Care is 22. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Airway pressure release ventilation for lung protection in acute respiratory distress syndrome: an alternative way to recruit the lungs	89
Helmet noninvasive ventilation in acute hypoxic respiratory failure	67
Editorial introductions	63
Temperature control after cardiac arrest: friend or foe	56
Peep setting: let us come back to physiology	48
Challenges with medical tourism	46
Enteral nutrition in septic shock: a call for a paradigm shift	45
Current fistula management	37
Protected cardiac surgery: strategic mechanical circulatory support to improve postcardiotomy mortality	37
What are the clinical and research lessons learned from immunomodulators and other therapies during the COVID-19 pandemic?	33
Wearable wireless continuous vital signs monitoring on the general ward	33
Poor physical recovery after critical illness: incidence, features, risk factors, pathophysiology, and evidence-based therapies	33
Sex as a biological variable in acute kidney injury	31
Severe community-acquired pneumonia in the post COVID-19 era	31
Antimicrobial stewardship	28
Cardiac output monitoring – invasive and noninvasive	27
Head-up cardiopulmonary resuscitation	26
Editorial introductions	25
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – current status	24
Quality, safety, and implementation science in acute kidney care	24
Editorial: Critical care outcomes in the context of a pandemic	24
The future of artificial intelligence in cardiovascular monitoring	23
Managing the first 120 min of cardiogenic shock: from resuscitation to diagnosis	22
Antibiotic dose optimisation in the critically ill: targets, evidence and future strategies	22