OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Pediatrics is 25. 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
Children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia complicated by effusion: a single-centre retrospective cohort study	81
Assessment of vitamin status; A, E and D in Egyptian neonates with IUGR: a cross sectional study	68
Study protocol for the ACTIVE SCHOOL study investigating two different strategies of physical activity to improve academic performance in Schoolchildren	63
UGT1A1 mutation association with increased bilirubin levels and severity of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in ABO incompatible newborns of China	59
Association between physical activity and cardiovascular parameters in 7-year-old children: a Chinese cross-sectional study	54
Father-child attachment on children’s screen time: mediating role of ego resilience	51
Parents’ perceptions of the safe environment for every kid (SEEK) model in the Swedish child health services	46
Parents’ experiences of family and daily life after their child’s stay in the pediatric intensive care unit: a qualitative descriptive study	40
Effects of maturity status on the rate of torque development in young male soccer players	39
Epidemiology of asthma exacerbation in children before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study in Chengdu, China	39
Early versus late parenteral nutrition in term and late preterm infants: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial	36
Caregivers’ experiences on preterm infants’ management in a tertiary care facility in Ghana: a qualitative exploratory study	35
Assessing causality by means of the Naranjo scale in a paediatric patient with life threatening respiratory failure after alemtuzumab administration: a case report	35
The Pregnancy and EARly Life study (PEARL) - a longitudinal study to understand how gut microbes contribute to maintaining health during pregnancy and early life	34
Supporting recommendations for childhood preventive interventions for primary health care: elaboration of evidence synthesis and lessons learnt	32
Case report: risk of skin necrosis related to injectable vancomycin in critically ill newborn infants	32
Is there any association between undesired children and health status of under-five children? Analysis of a nationally representative sample from Bangladesh	30
Spatio-temporal analysis of childhood vaccine uptake in Nigeria: a hierarchical Bayesian Zero-inflated Poisson approach	30
Increasing the psychosocial focus in child developmental assessments: a qualitative study	29
Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial of a proprioceptive and tactile vest intervention for children with challenges integrating and processing sensory information	28
Disparity in prevalence and predictors of undernutrition in children under five among agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral ecological zones of Karamoja sub-region, Uganda: a cross sectional study	27
Saving babies’ lives (SBL) – a programme to reduce neonatal mortality in rural Cambodia: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial	27
Heparin versus normal saline for the care of peripheral intravenous catheters in pediatrics: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	27
A clinical observational study of dinutuximab beta as first-line maintenance treatment for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma in China	26
Prognosis and treatment of 46 Chinese pediatric cystic fibrosis patients	25

Novel mutation in ELN gene causes cardiac abnormalities and inguinal hernia: case report	25
Testing a model of benefit-finding and growth in youths with chronic health conditions	25
Pulmonary tuberculosis case notification and burden of drug resistance among children under 15 years of age in Ethiopia: sub-analysis from third-round drug resistance tuberculosis survey	25
Influencing factors for surgical treatment in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
The Cohort of Indonesian Preterm Infants for Long-term Outcomes (CIPTO) study: a protocol	25