OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Biomedical Informatics is 44. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a unified search: Improving PubMed retrieval with full text	150
From translational bioinformatics computational methodologies to personalized medicine	145
Introducing the BlendedICU dataset, the first harmonized, international intensive care dataset	114
A robust phenotype-driven likelihood ratio analysis approach assisting interpretable clinical diagnosis of rare diseases	110
Development of a 3-Step theory of suicide ontology to facilitate 3ST factor extraction from clinical progress notes	106
Predicting relations between SOAP note sections: The value of incorporating a clinical information model	93
Graph-based abstractive biomedical text summarization	83
Discontinuous named entities in clinical text: A systematic literature review	83
A self-supervised language model selection strategy for biomedical question answering	82
Learning the progression patterns of treatments using a probabilistic generative model	76
Detection of valvular heart diseases combining orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization and convolutional neural networks in PCG signals	73
A Syntax-enhanced model based on category keywords for biomedical relation extraction	68
Integrating Mendelian randomization and literature-mined evidence for breast cancer risk factors	67
Hypothesis-driven modeling of the human lung–ventilator system: A characterization tool for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome research	66
ViPal: A framework for virulence prediction of influenza viruses with prior viral knowledge using genomic sequences	66
MAM: Flexible Monte-Carlo Agent based model for modelling COVID-19 spread	66
Creating a computer assisted ICD coding system: Performance metric choice and use of the ICD hierarchy	65
Multi-agent norm perception and induction in distributed healthcare	61
Realistic 3D infant head surfaces augmentation to improve AI-based diagnosis of cranial deformities	61
Predicting non-coding RNA function using Artificial Intelligence	61
From centralized to ad-hoc knowledge base construction for hypotheses generation	60
A multimodal machine learning algorithm improved diagnostic accuracy for otitis media in a school aged Aboriginal population	58
Leveraging heterogeneous tabular of EHRs with prompt learning for clinical prediction	58
Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health using multimodal sensing of multiple situations of interest: A Systematic Literature Review	56
Explainable multimodal deep learning models for variable-length sequences in critically ill patients	56

Informative missingness: What can we learn from patterns in missing laboratory data in the electronic health record?	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	52
Context-Aware adaptive normalization LSTM (CAAN-LSTM) for immunotherapy decision support in cancer clinical data analysis	52
Measuring disease burden with individual cumulative incidence in patients with cirrhosis	51
One-shot distributed algorithms for addressing heterogeneity in competing risks data across clinical sites	51
Joint modeling of mixed outcomes using a rank-based sparse neural network	51
Cover 1/Spine	50
TransDiffECG: Semantically controllable ECG synthesis via transformer-based diffusion modeling	50
Extracting medication changes in clinical narratives using pre-trained language models	48
fmi-ii: Table of Contents	48
A computational framework for predicting drug-target interactions by fusing gene ontology information with cross attention	47
Contrastive pre-training and linear interaction attention-based transformer for universal medical reports generation	46
Decision-support systems for managing polypharmacy in the elderly: A scoping review	46
A fuzzy-based framework for diagnosing esophageal mobility disorder using high-resolution manometry	46
Providing clinical context to the spatio-temporal analysis of 4D CT perfusion to predict acute ischemic stroke lesion outcomes	45
Natural language processing for clinical notes in dentistry: A systematic review	44
MDD-MARF: a multimodal depression detection model based on multi-level attention mechanism and residual fusion	44
Vision-language model-based semantic-guided imaging biomarker for lung nodule malignancy prediction	44
A federated learning framework for ethical dynamic treatment allocation across heterogeneous hospitals	44
Using a clinical narrative-aware pre-trained language model for predicting emergency department patient disposition and unscheduled return visits	44