OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biochemia Medica is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Antipsychotics-induced hyperprolactinemia and screening for macroprolactin	655
Detection and correction of incomplete duplicate 24-hour urine collections – theory and practical evidence	90
Reply to letters to the editor entitled “Bias, the unfinished symphony” and “Bias estimation for Sigma metric calculation arithmetic mean versus quadratic mean”	21
False positive result of human chorionic gonadotropin caused by human anti-mouse antibodies	15
Evaluation and management of leukolysis-mediated pseudohyperkalemia in paediatric leukemic samples	13
Performance evaluation of the high sensitive troponin I assay on the Atellica IM analyser	13
Corrigendum to: Post-GDPR survey of data protection officers in research and non-research institutions in Croatia: a cross-sectional study	13
The importance of regulation (EU) 2017/746 for quality control in medical laboratories	12
The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio to predict poor prognosis of critical acute myocardial infarction patients	11
Urinary brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nerve growth factor as noninvasive biomarkers of overactive bladder in children	11
Corrigendum to: Post-treatment neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic tool in patients treated with tocilizumab for severe COVID-19 pneumonia - a single center experience	10
What did CRISPR-Cas9 accomplish in its first 10 years?	10
Laboratory medicine in pandemic of COVID-19	10
The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2/p53 axis in breast cancer	9
Dynamic profiles and predictive values of some biochemical and haematological quantities in COVID-19 inpatients	9
The relationship of melatonin concentration in preterm infants and adverse outcomes in the late neonatal period	8
CLSI-based verification and de novo establishment of reference intervals for common biochemical assays in Croatian newborns	8
Changing the tide in vitamin D testing: An 8-year review of a demand management approach	8
Is the urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentration in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus different from that in healthy children?	7
Antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome	7
Prediction interval	7
Pre-amplification as a method for improvement of quantitative RT-PCR analysis of circulating miRNAs	6
Practical application of the patient data-based quality control method: the potassium example	6
Concordance of apolipoprotein B concentration with the Friedewald, Martin-Hopkins, and Sampson formulas for calculating LDL cholesterol	6
The influence of calibration on bias in quality control and patient results for TSH on Vitros XT 7600 analyzer	6

Decision support system through automatic algorithms and electronic request in diagnosis of anaemia for primary care patients	6
Evaluation of a new equation for estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol through the comparison with various recommended methods	6
Reversible atransferrinemia in a patient with chronic enteropathy	5
Detection of macroenzymes	5
Carbohydrate sulfotransferases	5
Recommendations for the application and follow-up of quality controls in medical laboratories	5
Designing and validating an autoverification system of biochemical test results in Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, clinical laboratory	5
Reporting of activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT): Could we achieve better comparability of the results?	5
Extracellular vesicles and glycans	5
The missing slope: paradoxical shortening of activated partial thromboplastin time in a patient on unfractionated heparin therapy	5
Verification of automatic analysers Roller 20PN and iSED for measuring erythrocyte sedimentation rate	5
On determining the sensitivity and specificity of a new diagnostic test through comparing its results against a non-gold-standard test	5
Reporting LDL cholesterol results by clinical biochemistry laboratories in Czechia and Slovakia to improve the detection rate of familial hypercholesterolemia	4
Diagnosis of chylous abdominal effusions: what is the triglyceride threshold value?	4
Lipoproteins and cholesterol homeostasis in paediatric nephrotic syndrome patients	4
Laboratory policies and practices for thyroid function tests in Croatia: survey on behalf of Working Group for Laboratory Endocrinology of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory M	4
Laboratory professionals’ attitudes towards ISO 15189 2012 accreditation: an anonymous survey of three Croatian accredited medical laboratories	4
Detection of monoclonal protein by capillary zone electrophoresis can be challenged by iodinated contrast agent interference: a case report	4
Reevaluation of von Willebrand disease diagnosis in a Croatian paediatric cohort combining bleeding scores, phenotypic laboratory assays and next generation sequencing	4
Utility of serum indices in a particular case of serum protein electrophoresis	4
Drug interference with biochemical laboratory tests	4
Coffee intake one hour prior to phlebotomy produces no clinically significant changes in routine biochemical test results	3
Comparison of diagnostic accuracy for eight SARS-CoV-2 serological assays	3
Utilization of biological variation data in the interpretation of laboratory test results – survey about clinicians’ opinion and knowledge	3
Delayed diagnosis and treatment of extreme hypertriglyceridemia due to rejection of a lipemic sample	3
Association of serum ADMA, SDMA and L-NMMA concentrations with disease progression in COVID-19 patients	3
Deviating glucose results in an international dual-center study. A root cause investigation	3
Underfilled blood tube containing EDTA	3
Early markers of gestational diabetes mellitus	3
Contribution of the laboratory to a diagnosis process by sequential reflective testing: Paraprotein interference on a direct bilirubin assay	3
Androgens in women: Establishing reference intervals for dehydroepiandrostenedione sulphate and androstenedione on the Roche Cobas	3
Stability of adrenocorticotropic hormone in whole blood samples	3
The apparent prevalence, the true prevalence	3
Long pentraxin 3 as a marker of COVID-19 severity	3
Establishment of age- and -gender specific reference intervals for amino acids and acylcarnitines by tandem mass spectrometry in Turkish paediatric population	2
Macrolipasemia secondary to colon cancer chemotherapy	2
Negligible effect of vitamin D supplementation on exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	2
Common P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) polymorphisms do not seem to be associated with the risk of rivaroxaban-related bleeding events	2
Evaluation of the clinical chemistry tests analytical performance with Sigma Metric by using different quality specifications - Comparison of analyser actual performance with manufacturer data	2
Point of care testing in Croatia: a survey of the Working group for point of care testing of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine	2
Quality assurance of add-on testing in plasma samples	2
Establishment of reference intervals for complete blood count in times of COVID-19 and vaccination	2
Post-collection acidification of spot urine sample is not needed before measurement of electrolytes	2
Corrigendum to: Negligible effect of vitamin D supplementation on exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	2
The band count imprecision – a Croatian multicentric pilot study	2
Interference of anti-nuclear antibodies on determination of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in patients suspected of vasculitis	2
Hematological investigations in a case of intravascular hemolysis due to Clostridium perfringens infection	2
A case report of biclonal immunoglobulin D lambda/lambda multiple myeloma in patient with liver echinococcosis	2
Erratum to: Detection and correction of incomplete duplicate 24-hour urine collections – theory and practical evidence	2
Two cases with discrepancy in the quantitative cytological assessment of cerebrospinal fluid in neonatal samples using light microscopy in comparison with Sysmex XN-1000	2

Clinical importance of laboratory biomarkers in liver fibrosis	2
Estimation of inter-laboratory reference change values from external quality assessment data	2
Potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for obsessive compulsive disorder	2
The LEAP checklist for laboratory evaluation and analytical performance characteristics reporting of clinical measurement procedures	1
Bias estimation for Sigma metric calculation	1
Diagnostic challenges of diabetic kidney disease	1
A case of discrepant laboratory results in samples obtained from a central venous catheter and peripheral veins: when solving a pre-analytical mystery could improve patient care	1
Subfatin concentration decreases in acute coronary syndrome	1
Pseudonormokalemia case report - What does it mean to have normal blood potassium?	1
Improved protocol for plasma microRNA extraction and comparison of commercial kits	1
Direct and indirect reference intervals of 25-hydroxyvitamin D	1
A case of vitamin B12 deficiency neurological syndrome in a young adult due to late-onset cobalamin C (CblC) deficiency	1
Higher estimated plasma volume status is associated with increased thrombotic risk and impaired survival in patients with primary myelofibrosis	1
Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared	1
Comparative study on the quality control effectiveness of AI-PBRTQC and traditional PBRTQC model in identifying quality risks	1
Distal renal tubular acidosis in a patient with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis	1
Poor correlation between alcohol concentration in oral fluid and breath in subjects consuming beverages immediately before testing	1
Order of draw of blood samples affect potassium results without K-EDTA contamination during routine workflow	1
Estimation of the measurement uncertainty and practical suggestion for the description of the metrological traceability in clinical laboratories	1
Detection of preanalytical errors in arterial blood gas analysis	1
Hairy cell leukemia – etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and modern therapeutic approach	1
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion as an adverse reaction of ciprofloxacin: a case report and literature review	1
Artificial intelligence and thyroid disease management	1
Women in sports: the applicability of common national reference intervals for inflammatory and coagulation biomarkers (HemSter Study)	1
Reference intervals for thyroid disorders calculated by indirect method and comparison with reference change values	1
The response of total testing process in clinical laboratory medicine to COVID-19 pandemic	1
Determination of cystatin C reference interval for children in Croatia	1
Analysis of single comments left for bioRxiv preprints till September 2019	1
Evaluation of preanalytical and postanalytical phases in clinical biochemistry laboratory according to IFCC laboratory errors and patient safety specifications	1
Your article needs revision? – How to improve it successfully and answer to the reviewers’ comments	1
Poem: Waiting for the barbarian Corona viruses	1
Acquired hemophilia A secondary to SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia	1
Preanalytical, analytical and postanalytical considerations in circulating microRNAs measurement	1
Establishing paediatric reference intervals for thyroid function tests in Croatian population on the Abbott Architect i2000	1
Survey on reporting of epithelial cells in urine sediment as part of external quality assessment programs in Brazilian laboratories	1
Indirect reference intervals for haematological parameters in capillary blood of pre-school children	1
A sudden creatinine increase: A case report	1