OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Biomedical Informatics 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Cover 1/Spine	199
Hypothesis-driven modeling of the human lung–ventilator system: A characterization tool for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome research	182
A robust phenotype-driven likelihood ratio analysis approach assisting interpretable clinical diagnosis of rare diseases	99
Multi-agent norm perception and induction in distributed healthcare	91
Learning the progression patterns of treatments using a probabilistic generative model	85
Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health using multimodal sensing of multiple situations of interest: A Systematic Literature Review	83
Towards a unified search: Improving PubMed retrieval with full text	73
Creating a computer assisted ICD coding system: Performance metric choice and use of the ICD hierarchy	68
Discontinuous named entities in clinical text: A systematic literature review	65
Predicting relations between SOAP note sections: The value of incorporating a clinical information model	64
Leveraging heterogeneous tabular of EHRs with prompt learning for clinical prediction	63
Realistic 3D infant head surfaces augmentation to improve AI-based diagnosis of cranial deformities	60
A Syntax-enhanced model based on category keywords for biomedical relation extraction	60
Integrating Mendelian randomization and literature-mined evidence for breast cancer risk factors	57
From centralized to ad-hoc knowledge base construction for hypotheses generation	57
From translational bioinformatics computational methodologies to personalized medicine	57
MAM: Flexible Monte-Carlo Agent based model for modelling COVID-19 spread	56
Development of a 3-Step theory of suicide ontology to facilitate 3ST factor extraction from clinical progress notes	52
Identifying cancer sub-types from genomic scale data sets using confidence based integration (CBI)	52
Corrigendum to “A pipeline for harmonising NHS Scotland laboratory data to enable national-level analyses” [J. Biomed. Inform. 2025 Feb;162:104771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104771. Epub 2025	48
Detection of valvular heart diseases combining orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization and convolutional neural networks in PCG signals	47
A multimodal machine learning algorithm improved diagnostic accuracy for otitis media in a school aged Aboriginal population	46
Introducing the BlendedICU dataset, the first harmonized, international intensive care dataset	46
One-shot distributed algorithms for addressing heterogeneity in competing risks data across clinical sites	45
Graph-based abstractive biomedical text summarization	45

ViPal: A framework for virulence prediction of influenza viruses with prior viral knowledge using genomic sequences	43
Measuring disease burden with individual cumulative incidence in patients with cirrhosis	43
Joint modeling of mixed outcomes using a rank-based sparse neural network	43
Deep neural networks for neuro-oncology: Towards patient individualized design of chemo-radiation therapy for Glioblastoma patients	42
Informative missingness: What can we learn from patterns in missing laboratory data in the electronic health record?	42
Improving broad-coverage medical entity linking with semantic type prediction and large-scale datasets	42
A self-supervised language model selection strategy for biomedical question answering	41
A fuzzy-based framework for diagnosing esophageal mobility disorder using high-resolution manometry	41
Providing clinical context to the spatio-temporal analysis of 4D CT perfusion to predict acute ischemic stroke lesion outcomes	41
Using a clinical narrative-aware pre-trained language model for predicting emergency department patient disposition and unscheduled return visits	40
Natural language processing for clinical notes in dentistry: A systematic review	40
Long-term prediction for temporal propagation of seasonal influenza using Transformer-based model	40
GERNERMED++: Semantic annotation in German medical NLP through transfer-learning, translation and word alignment	39
Unified concept and assertion detection using contextual multi-task learning in a clinical decision support system	39