OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is 71. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Emergency Intubation: A High-Stakes Procedure with Critical Gaps in Understanding Team Impact	645
Use FEV1/FVC Z -Score Staging to Minimize Sex and Age Bias in Staging Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	629
Interventions Relieving Dyspnea in Intubated Patients Show Responsiveness of the Mechanical Ventilation–Respiratory Distress Observation Scale	445
CD4+ T-Cell Dysfunction in Severe COVID-19 Disease Is Tumor Necrosis Factor-α/Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1–Dependent	372
Emerging Investigators Highlight	338
Host–Microbe Multiomic Profiling Predicts Mortality in Sepsis	336
Biological Age, Chronological Age, and Survival in Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Causal Mediation Analysis	258
Enhancing Our Understanding of Breathing Mechanics in Nonintubated Patients with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure	192
Reply to Wendel-Garcia et al .: Low-Dose Anticoagulation to Prevent Intracranial Hemorrhage in COVID-19 Patients under Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenatio	183
Addressing the Use of the CAPTURE (a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Screening Tool) in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Treatment Decisions	154
Race-based Reference Equation for Lung Function Testing in African Americans	152
Extending the Benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation to New Groups: Reply to Anidi et al .	148
October 1 Highlight	147
Genetically Identifying the “Thromboembolic” in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension	139
Regulating the Regulators: Epigenetic Modulation of Regulatory T Cells in Pulmonary Hypertension	138
Access to Medically Necessary Reproductive Care for Individuals with Pulmonary Hypertension	135
No One Left Behind: Access to Prevention and Treatment for All: Message on World Lung Day from M. Patricia Rivera, M.D. President of the American Thoracic Society	134
Clinical Guidelines: Asking the Right Questions to Guide Fungal Infection Management	133
Oxygen-Saturation Targets and Cognitive and Functional Outcomes in Mechanically Ventilated Adults	133
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Detection: Hurdles and Struggles	130
Air Pollution and Bronchitis: Childhood Exposure, Lifelong Consequences	128
Oxidized Vitamin E Metabolites During Infancy and Childhood Asthma Risk: Too Little, Too Much, or Just Right?	124
Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis: Putting the Cart Before the Horse	123
Big Things Have Small Beginnings: Clinical Implications of Early Interstitial Lung Disease	119
Mycobacterium tuberculosis : A Pathogen That Can Hold Its Breath a Long Time	116

Electrical Impedance Tomography to Evaluate Sigh Effects in Unilateral Lung Injury	114
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Transport for Severe COVID-19: Why We Can and Should!	113
Managing Your Asthma: Avoiding Irritants	111
COVID-19 and Risk of Oxygen-Dependent Chronic Respiratory Failure: A National Cohort Study	110
Be the Change: Advancing Lung Health and Closing the Global Healthcare Gap	109
Lessons from the North: CanCOLD, Exercise, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	106
Drug Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Are We There Yet?	104
Pulmonary Embolus and Hemoptysis Revealing Rare Intralobar Sequestration	103
Inhaled Anti-IL-4rα Single-domain Antibody Significantly Reduces FeNO in Moderate-to-Severe Asthma Patients: A Phase 2a Proof-of-Concept Study	101
Infant RSV infection disrupts β2 adrenergic airway relaxation via epithelial CXCL11	101
Alveolar Collapse Is a Threat in Injured Lungs, but What About the Airway Opening Pressure?	100
Does Autoimmune Response Against Surfactant Protein Cause Interstitial Lung Disease?	98
Reply to Jankowich: PRISm: What?s in a Name?	97
The Long-term Pneumonia Mortality Index. An International Multicenter Derivation and Validation Study for Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia	95
Diaphragm Dysfunction as a Contributor to Breathlessness after COVID-19 Infection	89
Environmental Exposures and the Microbiome: Where There Is Smoke, Is There Fire?	87
Heat Wave Risks for People with Lung Disease	86
Social Determinants of Health and Racial Disparities in Lung Function: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2012	86
Cystic Fibrosis: Huge Gains, but Still a Work in Progress	85
Significant Airway Obstruction by Carbonaceous Fibrin Casts in a Child with Smoke Inhalation Injury	83
November Highlight	83
Assessing Pretomanid for Tuberculosis (APT), a Randomized Phase 2 Trial of Pretomanid-Containing Regimens for Drug-Sensitive Tuberculosis: 12-Week Results	82
2025 American Thoracic Society BEAR Cage winning proposal: digital incentive spirometer to improve patient adherence and clinical workflows	82
Good’s Syndrome: Thymoma with Acquired Immunodeficiency	82
Bronchial Erosion Leading to Lobectomy: Discovery of an Intrathoracic Gossypiboma From 1989	81
Viral Infection, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Long COVID	80
Constructing Modern Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Another Brick from the Wall	80
Histological Chorioamnionitis Increases the Risk of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia	79
Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A Case Series	78
Nasal High Flow to Modulate Dyspnea in Orally Intubated Weanable Patients	78
The Cell Specificity of CFTR Function in Alveoli: New Insights From Live Lung Imaging	78
Stop the Asthma Treatment Elevator, We Need to Get Off!	78
C55-20 Progression of Organ Failure in Hospital Acquired Versus Community Acquired Sepsis	77
C54-06 Integrating a Novel Cellular Host Response Test for Early Sepsis Detection: A Quality Improvement Initiative in the Emergency Department	77
C53-45 A Silent Collapse: Agranulocytosis and Fatal Septic Shock Likey Due to Levamisole	77
B48-08 When Stroke Isn’t Stroke: A Case of Guillain-Barré Syndrome	75
A103-10 Mechanical Power Distribution During Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery	75
A17-04 Accelerating Adoption of Noninvasive Ventilation for Emergency Intubation Using a Learning Health System Approach	75
B55-09 Leveraging the Electronic Medical Record to Optimize Screening for Spontaneous Awakening Trials	75
B100-07 Metabolome-wide Association Study Identifies Fatty Acid and Oxidative Stress Perturbations in Mesenchymal Cells From Subjects With Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction	73
C56-46 Predictors of Unplanned Intubation on the Medical Floor: A Case-Control Study at a Community Teaching Hospital	73
C70-18 Effects of Nonylphenol Exposed in Dams During Perinatal Period on Airway Inflammation in Ova-Induced Asthmatic Pup	73
A103-11 High Dose Vasopressor Exposure at Time of In- Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Eight-year Outcomes From a Michigan Tertiary Care Cohort	73
A53-40 The Heat Is On: When Heat Stroke Leads to Acute Liver Failure	72
A51-44 A Case of Extreme Hypernatremia Due to Acute Exogenous Salt Intake	71
C56-34 Examining the Temporal Relationship Between Time of Early Recognition Team Activation and Conversion to Code Blues: A Baseline Quality-Improvement Analysis	71
A57-03 Malagasy Seafarers Spirometric Profiles in Maritime Occupational Medicine	71
B53-10 Fatal Catastrophic Seronegative Antiphospholipid Syndrome Overlapping With Anca-associated Vasculitis	71