OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sleep Medicine is 33. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Prevalence of mouth breathing, with or without nasal obstruction, in children with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea	202
Quality of sleep among social media users during the lockdown period due to COVID-19 in Spain	122
Effects of saffron supplementation on improving sleep quality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	106
Images in sleep medicine sleep-disordered breathing in Wolfram's syndrome - A near-fatal event	93
Co-occurrence of anxiety and depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts, and hopelessness in patients with narcolepsy type 1	83
A prospective examination of sleep chronotype and future suicide intent among adults in the United Kingdom: A test of the integrated motivational volitional model of suicide	81
Latent profiles of multi-dimensional sleep characteristics and association with overweight/obesity in Chinese preschool children	69
Kairos positive airway pressure (KPAP) equals continuous PAP in effectiveness, and offers superior comfort for obstructive sleep apnea treatment	68
Association between grit and insomnia: A population-based study	56
Efficacy comparison of aerobic exercise, combined exercise, oropharyngeal exercise and respiratory muscle training for obstructive sleep apnea: A systematic review and network meta-analysis	55
Midday napping duration and risk of stroke: A prospective study in China	54
A reliability generalization meta-analysis of the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the pre-sleep arousal scale (PSAS)	51
Mental health and sleep routines: Uttarkashi, India tunnel collapse workers’ experience	50
Editorial Board	50
Association between snoring frequency and male serum testosterone: Findings from the 2015–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	49
Long term noninvasive respiratory support in children with OSA-I and OSA-II: Data of a nation-wide study	49
Sleep disturbances in autism spectrum disorder without intellectual impairment: relationship with executive function and psychiatric symptoms	48
Obstructive sleep apnea and the risk of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson disease: A Mendelian randomization study OSA, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson disease	48
The effect of melatonin on sleep quality and insomnia in patients with cancer: a systematic review study	47
Migration, mental health and sleep	45
Genetically predicted insomnia and lung cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization study	44
The influence of transcranial alternating current stimulation on EEG spectral power during subsequent sleep: A randomized crossover study	43
Video-polysomnographic findings after acute COVID-19: REM sleep without atonia as sign of CNS pathology?	40
Home (Level 2) polysomnography is feasible in children with suspected sleep disorders	40
Virtual reality improves sleep quality and associated symptoms in patients with chronic insomnia	40

Machine learning and geometric morphometrics to predict obstructive sleep apnea from 3D craniofacial scans	39
Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with worse cognitive outcomes in acute moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: A TBI Model Systems study	37
Characterization of de novo Dementia with Lewy Body with different duration of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder	36
Self-reported sleep quality and dysfunctional sleep-related beliefs in young and older adults: changes in times of COVID-19 lockdown	36
Response to comment on “Validity and reliability of the Oura Ring Generation 3 (Gen3) with Oura Sleep Staging Algorithm 2.0 (OSSA 2.0) when compared to multi-night ambulatory polysomnography: A valida	34
The best modality and dose of physical activity to improve sleep quality in older adults: A Bayesian dose-response meta-analysis	34
Oximetry and carbon dioxide screening for ventilatory requirements in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1-3	34
Changes in sleep-disordered breathing from the acute to the stable phase of pulmonary embolism: The ESAET study	34
Tripolar concentric ring electrodes for capturing localised electroencephalography signals during sleep	33
Obstructive sleep apnea in those with idiopathic intracranial hypertension undergoing diagnostic in-laboratory polysomnography	33
Long time polysomnographic sleep and breathing evaluations in children with CDKL5 deficiency disorder	33
Sleep dissatisfaction is a potential marker for nomophobia in adults	33
Sleep apnoea, intermittent hypoxia and cutaneous melanoma incidence and aggressiveness. More than a coincidence?	33