OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 5. 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
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	64
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	64
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	57
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	32
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	32
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	31
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	27
Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	26
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	24
How organizational culture influences holistic review: a qualitative multiple case study	23
Seeing the invisible: extracurricular learning processes and learning outcome as experienced by student volunteers accompanying persons in a socially vulnerable situation to healthcare appointments—an	23
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	21
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	21
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	20
How does a move towards a coaching approach impact the delivery of written feedback in undergraduate clinical education?	20
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	20
Mastery versus invention learning: impacts on future learning of simulated procedural skills	20
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	19
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	19
Trust, but verify	17
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	17
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	16
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	16
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	16
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	15

What if we consider research teams as teams?	15
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	15
Using theory-informed data science methods to trace the quality of dental student reflections over time	15
Go back to the original sources please!	15
Accounting for agency in structural competency	14
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	14
A scoping review of the questionnaires used for the assessment of the perception of undergraduate students of the learning environment in healthcare professions education programs	14
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	14
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	14
Do different response formats affect how test takers approach a clinical reasoning task? An experimental study on antecedents of diagnostic accuracy using a constructed response and a selected respons	14
Game design elements of serious games in the education of medical and healthcare professions: a mixed-methods systematic review of underlying theories and teaching effectiveness	13
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	13
Japanese medical learners’ achievement emotions: Accounting for culture in translating Western medical educational theories and instruments into an asian context	13
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	13
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	13
Exploring complexities in the reform of assessment practice: a critical realist perspective	13
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	12
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	12
What role does basic research have in an applied field?	12
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	12
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	12
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	11
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	11
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	11
Exploring the relationship between emotion and cognitive load types during patient handovers	11
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	10
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	10
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	10
Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: an international EPA-framed, modified Delphi study	10
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	10
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	10
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	9
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	9
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	9
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	9
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	9
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	9
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	8
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	8
Conducting qualitative research through time: how might theory be useful in longitudinal qualitative research?	8
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	8
Assessing the validity of test scores using response process data from an eye-tracking study: a new approach	7
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	7
A scoping review of clinical reasoning research with Asian healthcare professionals	7
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	7
Comparison of two different mindfulness interventions among health care students in Finland: a randomised controlled trial	7
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	7
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	7
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	7
Drawing on experience: exploring the pedagogical possibilities of using rich pictures in health professions education	7

Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	6
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	6
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	6
Relationships between preadmission variables and academic outcomes for postbaccalaureate students in medical school	6
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	6
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	6
Is ‘data science’ science?	6
Not too little, not too much: supervisor perceptions of work-readiness of speech-language pathology graduates	6
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	6
Learning clinical skills: an ecological perspective	6
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	6
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	6
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	6
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	6
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	6
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	6
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	5
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	5
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	5
Implicit and inferred: on the philosophical positions informing assessment science	5
Beyond empathy decline: Do the barriers to compassion change across medical training?	5
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	5
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	5
Expanding the advocacy lens: using photo-elicitation to capture patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about health advocacy	5
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	5
Team science in interdisciplinary health professions education research: a multi-institutional case study	5
Commentary on Barradell and Bell (2021)—applying a critical lens to the role of students as partners in health professions education: challenges, risks, and potential	5
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	5
Inequity is woven into the fabric: a discourse analysis of assessment in pediatric residency training	5
Opening the black box of school-wide student wellbeing programmes: a critical narrative review informed by activity theory	5
Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	5
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	5
Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?	5