OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Infectious Diseases is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in a health care worker population during the early pandemic	172
Prior tuberculosis, radiographic lung abnormalities and prevalent diabetes in rural South Africa	99
Model correction of diagnostic coding-based RSV incidence for children 0–4 years in the US	79
Molecular and serological investigation of hepatitis B virus in patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness at Tha Song Yang hospital, Tak Province, Thailand	77
Atypical rat bite fever associated with knee joint infection in a Chinese patient: a case report	77
A longitudinal point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and resistance in tertiary care hospitals in Kerman: results from the national Iranian multicenter point prevalence survey of antimicrobials	64
Assessing seropositivity of MMR antibodies in individuals aged 2–22: evaluating routine vaccination effectiveness after the 2003 mass campaign-a study from Iran’s National Measles Laboratory	62
Dual diagnosis of neurobrucellosis and Anti-LGI1 encephalitis: a rare case report	62
Understanding causes of incomplete reports of adverse drug reactions associated with dolutegravir-based HIV treatment in uganda: a qualitative study	59
Reactogenicity within the first week after Sinopharm, Sputnik V, AZD1222, and COVIran Barekat vaccines: findings from the Iranian active vaccine surveillance system	57
Long-term trends of visceral leishmaniasis incidence and mortality in India 1990–2019: an application of joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis	56
Genetic variation of TLR3 gene is associated with the outcome of hepatitis b infection in mauritanian patients: case control study	56
The epidemiology of hepatitis b virus infection in Uganda after two decades of vaccination: a meta-analysis and meta-regression	55
A systematic review and meta-analysis of Plasmodium infections and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in relation to disease severity	55
Corticosteroid treatment in severe patients with SARS-CoV-2 and chronic HBV co-infection: a retrospective multicenter study	53
A case of panophthalmitis with orbital infection of polymicrobial origin	53
Unravelling butyrate metabolism in sepsis: identification of key genes	52
Mitigating the risks of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) with intranasal chlorpheniramine: perspectives from the ACCROS studies	51
Evaluation of the multiplex PCR combined with capillary electrophoresis technique for detecting pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in bone infections	51
The value of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia, verified by high resolution computed tomography assessed by artificial intelligence	50
Comparing artificial neural network training algorithms to predict length of stay in hospitalized patients with COVID-19	49
Mortality due to schistosomiasis in an endemic area of Brazil: a population-based ecological study	49
Association between serum vitamins and COVID-19 infection: a cross-sectional study of healthcare workers in a Nigerian tertiary hospital	48
Relapsing bronchopneumonia due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a case report	48
Malaria exposure remodels the plasma proteome of Ghanaian children	48

Demographic profile, unplanned status and intraoperative situations increase surgical site infection in cesarean delivery: conclusions from a prospective study in central India	47
Development and clinical validation of a one-step pentaplex real-time reverse transcription PCR assay for detection of hepatitis virus B, C, E, Treponema pallidum, and a human housekeeping gene	47
Adult intensive care unit nosocomial infections related deaths in Jimma medical center: a cause specific cox regression analysis	46
Can HIV self-testing reach first-time testers? A telephone survey among self-test end users in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal	45
Prevalence, symptoms, and associated factors of long COVID: a retrospective cohort study based on data from two major German health authorities	45
Clostridium septicum causing aortic aneurysm, spondylodiscitis, and epidural abscess in an immunocompetent man	43
Impact of water physicochemical properties on the survival of Oncomelania hupensis snails, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum	42
Association of visceral obesity with Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and mortality in US adults	41
Intestinal parasitic infections and their potential risk factors among prison inmates in Valencia, Spain	41
Precision diagnosis of preoperative infection in urolithiasis: integrating targeted next-generation sequencing for enhanced accuracy—a multicenter cohort study	41
Molecular characterization of human respiratory syncytial virus strains circulating among hospitalized children in Jordan	40
Correction: Cycle threshold values and SARS-CoV-2 variant associations with breakthrough infections: a retrospective study in Accra, Ghana	40
Atypical causes of respiratory virus infections in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2013– 2023: a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Correction to: Information about the natural history of acute infections commonly seen in primary care: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines	39
Correction: Some virulence genes are associated with antibiotic susceptibility in Enterobacter cloacae complex	39
Public health system in post-pandemic Sierra Leone: a scoping review	39
Correction: Isolation of virulent phages against multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii recovered from inanimate objects of Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia	39
The magnitude of anemia among visceral leishmaniasis patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39