OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Research Policy and Systems is 26. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: a systematic review of reviews	164
Strategies for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in public health: an overview of systematic reviews	76
Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda	69
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”	54
Future health spending forecast in leading emerging BRICS markets in 2030: health policy implications	51
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	48
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education	47
The household financial burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	47
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: tensions confronting large-scale CHW programmes	45
Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review	45
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks	44
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration	42
Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health	38
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing	38
Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform?	37
Learning from public health and hospital resilience to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: protocol for a multiple case study (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Mali)	36
Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders	35
A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era	34
Intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to health policy: an umbrella review protocol	33
A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research	32
Framing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research: priorities for strengthening rehabilitation	31
Adapting evidence-informed population health interventions for new contexts: a scoping review of current practice	30
The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy	30
Health provider perspectives on the implementation of the same-day-ART initiation policy in the Gauteng province of South Africa	27

Financial risk protection from out-of-pocket health spending in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature	27
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries	26
Demographic forecasting of population aging in Greece and Cyprus: one big challenge for the Mediterranean health and social system long-term sustainability	26
Using a co-design process to develop an integrated model of care for delivering self-management intervention to multi-morbid COPD people in rural Nepal	26