OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biochemia Medica is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample size, power and effect size revisited: simplified and practical approaches in pre-clinical, clinical and laboratory studies	365
Inflammatory and angiogenic biomarkers in diabetic retinopathy	75
Complete blood count alterations in COVID-19 patients	61
Errors within the total laboratory testing process, from test selection to medical decision-making – A review of causes, consequences, surveillance and solutions	26
Rate of re-positive RT-PCR test among patients recovered from COVID-19	25
Comparison of a rapid immunochromatographic test with a chemiluminescence immunoassay for detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG	22
The top-down approach to measurement uncertainty	15
Performance of D-dimer for predicting sepsis mortality in the intensive care unit	14
Analytical bias of automated immunoassays for six serum steroid hormones assessed by LC-MS/MS	14
Analysis of serum homocysteine in the laboratory practice - comparison of the direct chemiluminescence immunoassay and high performance liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescent detection	13
Analysis of single comments left for bioRxiv preprints till September 2019	12
Current status of the lateral flow immunoassay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swabs	11
In sickness and in health: pivotal role of vitamin D	11
Assessment of antinuclear antibodies (ANA): National recommendations on behalf of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine	9
Before and after enforcement of GDPR	8
Using clinical guidelines to assess the potential value of laboratory medicine in clinical decision-making	8
Comparison of diagnostic accuracy for eight SARS-CoV-2 serological assays	8
Evaluation of the clinical chemistry tests analytical performance with Sigma Metric by using different quality specifications - Comparison of analyser actual performance with manufacturer data	8
Evaluation of a new equation for estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol through the comparison with various recommended methods	8
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children in Children’s Hospital Zagreb during the initial and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia	7
Wilfully submitting to and publishing in predatory journals - a covert form of research misconduct?	7
The apparent prevalence, the true prevalence	7
The rise in preanalytical errors during COVID-19 pandemic	6
Verification of automated latex-enhanced particle immunoturbidimetric D-Dimer assays on different analytical platforms and comparability of test results	6
Verification of the Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Paediatric Reference Intervals (CALIPER) reference values in Croatian children and adolescents	6

Improved protocol for plasma microRNA extraction and comparison of commercial kits	6
Impact of combining data from multiple instruments on performance of patient-based real-time quality control	6
Indirect reference intervals for haematological parameters in capillary blood of pre-school children	6
Potential of modern circulating cell-free DNA diagnostic tools for detection of specific tumour cells in clinical practice	5
Changes in error rates in the Australian key incident monitoring and management system program	5
Utility of icteric index in clinical laboratories: more than a preanalytical indicator	5
Utilization of biological variation data in the interpretation of laboratory test results – survey about clinicians’ opinion and knowledge	5
Pre-amplification as a method for improvement of quantitative RT-PCR analysis of circulating miRNAs	5
Estimation of the measurement uncertainty and practical suggestion for the description of the metrological traceability in clinical laboratories	5
SARS-CoV-2 – a new challenge for laboratory medicine	5
Recommendations for the application and follow-up of quality controls in medical laboratories	5
Laboratory markers included in the Corona Score can identify false negative results on COVID-19 RT-PCR in the emergency room	4
Analytical performance assessment and improvement by means of the Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)	4
Higher estimated plasma volume status is associated with increased thrombotic risk and impaired survival in patients with primary myelofibrosis	4
Antipsychotics-induced hyperprolactinemia and screening for macroprolactin	4
Case report of a phantom pheochromocytoma	4
Clinical importance of laboratory biomarkers in liver fibrosis	4
Reporting of activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT): Could we achieve better comparability of the results?	4
Comparison of Freelite and N-Latex serum free light chain assays	4
Detection of preanalytical errors in arterial blood gas analysis	4
Establishing paediatric reference intervals for thyroid function tests in Croatian population on the Abbott Architect i2000	4
General position of Croatian medical biochemistry laboratories on autovalidation	4
Dynamic profiles and predictive values of some biochemical and haematological quantities in COVID-19 inpatients	3
An analysis of the vitamin D overtesting in a tertiary healthcare centre	3
Verification policies in Croatian medical biochemistry laboratories	3
Establishment of gender- and age-specific reference intervals for serum liver function tests among the elderly population in northeast China	3
Diagnostic challenges of diabetic kidney disease	3
Long pentraxin 3 as a marker of COVID-19 severity	3
Carbohydrate sulfotransferases	3
Long-term stability of clinically relevant chemistry analytes in pleural and peritoneal fluid	3
The results of external quality assessment programme on urine leukocyte and erythrocyte counting in Poland	3
Integrating moving average control procedures into the risk-based quality control plan in small-volume medical laboratories	3
Laboratory medicine in arterial hypertension	3
Comparison of hyaluronic acid in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus	3
Post-GDPR survey of data protection officers in research and non-research institutions in Croatia	3
Order of draw of blood samples affect potassium results without K-EDTA contamination during routine workflow	3
Artificial intelligence and thyroid disease management	3
Deviating glucose results in an international dual-center study. A root cause investigation	3
The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2/p53 axis in breast cancer	3
Experience on how to implement a preanalytical and POCT unit in Madrid’s IFEMA field hospital during this unprecedented COVID-19 emergency	3
Patient-based quality control for glucometers using the moving sum of positive patient results and moving average	3
Circulatory cytokeratin 17, marginal zone B1 protein and leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein-1 as biomarkers for disease severity and fibrosis in systemic sclerosis patients	3
The response of total testing process in clinical laboratory medicine to COVID-19 pandemic	3
A rare case of tuberculosis-induced hypercalcemia	3
Verification of automatic analysers Roller 20PN and iSED for measuring erythrocyte sedimentation rate	3
Early markers of gestational diabetes mellitus	3