OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	91
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	85
Learning shared decision making in undergraduate medical education: a realist review	79
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	59
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	49
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	48
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	45
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	38
Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	37
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	35
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	31
Mastery versus invention learning: impacts on future learning of simulated procedural skills	29
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	29
Trust, but verify	26
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	25
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	25
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	24
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	24
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	24
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	24
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	21
Can you really infer that? An exploratory study using the reasoning task typology to analyze clinic notes	21
Go back to the original sources please!	19
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	19
Accounting for agency in structural competency	18

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	18
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	18
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	18
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	17
The first step in visual diagnosis: a study of novices developing the ability to distinguish normal from abnormal cases	17
What if we consider research teams as teams?	16
Giving effective feedback on writing	16
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	16
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	16
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	16
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	15
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	15
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	15
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	14
What role does basic research have in an applied field?	14
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	14
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	14
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	14
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	13
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	13
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	13
Designing a course for healthcare professionals: examining readiness for adopting emerging technologies into education and practice	13
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	13
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	12
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	12
Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: an international EPA-framed, modified Delphi study	12
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	12
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	12
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	12
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	12
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	12
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	12
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	12
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	12
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	11
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	11
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	11
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	11
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	10
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	10
Individual differences and self-regulatory factors are credible determinants of physiotherapy student performance on clinical placement: Insights from a measurement burst design study	10
Inclusion in an exclusive world? A two-country comparison of widening participation in medicine	10
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	10
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	10
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	10
Is ‘data science’ science?	10
Can AI grade like a professor? comparing artificial intelligence and faculty scoring of medical student short-answer clinical reasoning exams	9
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	9
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	9
Beyond mentorship: the promise and perils of sponsorship in health professions education research	9

Identifying the experience of geographical narcissism during medical education and training	9
Comparison of two different mindfulness interventions among health care students in Finland: a randomised controlled trial	9
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	9
Medical knowledge decline: the role of active usage	9
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	9
Assessing the validity of test scores using response process data from an eye-tracking study: a new approach	9
Relationships between preadmission variables and academic outcomes for postbaccalaureate students in medical school	8
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	8
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	8
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	8
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	8
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	8
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	8
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	8
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	8
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	7
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	7
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	7
Towards a praxis of metacognitive reflection in medical education: a framework of inquiry, adaptive action, and pattern logic	7
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	7
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	7
Does need strength influence the impact of supervision styles on junior doctors’ affective states?	7
Unpacking educational approaches for social accountability in health professions education: a scoping review	7
An evaluation of programmatic assessment across health professions education using contribution analysis	7
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	7
Fostering interprofessional identity formation to support interprofessional collaboration – Identifying guidelines for educational design	7
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	7
Learning clinical skills: an ecological perspective	7
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	7
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	7