OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Medical Education Online is 21. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterizing the initial effects of the single accreditation system merge on the ophthalmology residency match	222
Ambiguous motivations in medical school applicants: a retrospective study from Japan	108
Multi-institutional exploration of pediatric residents’ perspectives on anti-racism curricula: a qualitative study	71
Trainee perspectives on diversity, equity, and inclusion: a group concept mapping study	48
Advancing health professions education: a review of holistic admissions and competency-based admissions practices	43
‘Early identification of struggling pre-clerkship learners using formative clinical skills OSCEs: an assessment for learning program.’	40
Faculty knowledge, actions, and perceptions of sponsorship: an institutional survey study	40
Digital competencies for Singapore’s national medical school curriculum: a qualitative study	34
Novel COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, and associated factors, amongst medical students: a scoping review	33
Optimizing cost-effectiveness in remote objective structured clinical examinations through targeted double scoring methodologies	33
Impact of COVID-19 on medical education in different income countries: a scoping review of the literature	33
Feedback, fairness, and validity: effects of disclosing and reusing multiple-choice questions in medical schools	29
COVID-19 vaccination telephone outreach: an analysis of the medical student experience	28
COVID-19 related disruptions to medical education and perceived clinical capability of new resident physicians: a nationwide study of over 1200 first-year residents	28
Implementing a graduate medical education anti-racism workshop at an academic university in the Southern USA	23
Development and evaluation of a pre-clerkship spiral curriculum: data from three medical school classes	23
First-generation and continuing-generation college graduates’ application, acceptance, and matriculation to U.S. medical schools: a national cohort study	23
The impact of teacher’s presence on learning basic surgical tasks with virtual reality headset among medical students	22
Communication skills of residents: are they as good as they think?	22
Social justice in medical education: a student-led approach to addressing COVID-19 vaccine equity in the Hispanic/Latinx community	22
The influencing factors of stigma towards people with mental illness among nursing students: a mixed‐method systematic review	22
The Pittman Scholar Program for junior faculty recognition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine	21
Considering medical students’ perception, concerns and needs for e-exam during COVID-19: a promising approach to improve subject specific e-exams	21