OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health Action is 7. 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
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis	103
“Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi	51
Applying a multi-layered, mixed methods approach to evaluate technology and workforce interventions in Kenyan neonatal units	45
Validation of the Child Development Card (KKA) as a growth and development tool for stunted and normal children in West Java, Indonesia	43
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)	39
How to shore up trust during the “cold-period” between pandemics – closing the public trust gap in pandemic preparedness frameworks	39
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021	38
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States	36
Assessing progress in gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health interventions: how does practice-based knowledge compare with published evidence in sub-Saharan Africa?	35
“Assessing inclusiveness in Team Europe Initiatives: a mixed-methods study of EU-Africa health cooperation”	35
Cluster analysis of social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS knowledge among Peruvian youths using Kohonen’s self-organized maps: a data-exploration study based on a Demographic and health survey	33
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 2019	33
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis	32
Strategies for supporting the implementation of a task-shared psychological intervention in South Africa’s chronic disease services: qualitative insights from health managers’ experiences of project M	32
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications	29
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review	27
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol	27
Patient perspectives on group problem management plus for adults with major depressive disorder in rural Malawi	27
Public health system response to emerging infectious respiratory outbreaks in Iran	26
Preparedness for treating injured patients at a single-centre trauma hospital in Ethiopia: a qualitative study	26
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study	26
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria	25
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis	25
Health system responsiveness to older adults with functional limitations and socio-economic vulnerability in India	23
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone	23

Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China	23
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study	23
Barriers and facilitators to the utilization of cancer screening services in two Arctic Indigenous communities in Canada	22
Livelihood dynamics and challenges to wellbeing in the drylands of rural East Africa – the Drylands Transform study population in the Karamoja border region	21
Understanding the feasibility of yoga and compassion meditation for stress management in mothers of children with intellectual disabilities in Nepal: a qualitative exploration	21
Operationalizing the One Health approach at the intersection of research and development: a study protocol for the ELUZO project in Senegal and Burkina Faso	20
Development and validation of the Healthcare Worker Stress Scale-Vietnamese: a culturally grounded instrument to assess work-related stress	20
Hospital referral patterns amongst older adults in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study	19
Combined handgrip strength and incident chronic digestive diseases: a prospective parallel analysis examining broad and specific endpoints in Chinese and European older adults	19
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios	19
The new administration in the USA: impact of policy changes in development assistance on low- and middle-income countries, with the example of Nepal	18
Disability inclusion in the Brazilian health system: results of a health system assessment	18
Facilitators and barriers to anemia prevention in the urban government childcare program for infants and young children in Peru	17
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries	17
Why has the United States of America not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child? The veto fulcrum as a new health policy analysis framework	17
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives	17
Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions	17
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research	16
“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia	16
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	15
Implementation and evaluation of a family planning intervention engaging mothers-in-law of young women in India: a mixed methods pilot study	15
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal	15
A decade of health research capacity building in Honduras: institutional transformation, challenges, and lessons learned	15
WHO’s structured process for creating health-conducive environments in countries: insights and examples from the African region	14
Psychological distress 35 years after the Chornobyl accident in the Lithuanian clean-up workers	14
Frontline practitioners’ perspective of the implementation of child protection laws and prevention of violence against children in Maputo, Mozambique	14
Exploring approaches to weighting estimates of facility readiness to provide health services used for estimating input-adjusted effective coverage: a case study using data from Tanzania	13
Disease burden comparison and associated risk factors of early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis in China and the USA, 1990–2019	13
Global research trends on depression-related stigma in the 21st century: a bibliometric analysis	13
Stakeholder views on the implementation of the UK’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) National Action Plan (2019–2024) in relation to AMR in the environment	13
Antibiotic overuse as a modifiable early-life risk factor for non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa	13
Starting then stopping: a nationwide register-based study on the magnitude, predictors, and urban-rural patterns of under-vaccination variation across health centers in The Gambia	13
‘Condoms are hard to get by’: access to HIV prevention methods during lockdown of the COVID-19 epidemic in eastern Zimbabwe	13
The escalating health crisis in Gaza amidst armed conflict and heatwaves	13
Community perspectives on awareness, care-seeking, and implementation of a corneal ulcer prevention program in Nepal: a mixed-methods study	12
Navigating power, participation, and priorities: critical reflections for Global Financing Facility new strategy	12
Effects of decentralization on the functionality of health facility governing committees in lower and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	12
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru	12
Validating a modified instrument for measuring Demand-Control-Support among students at a large university in southern Sweden	12
Maternal education-related inequality in female genital mutilation/cutting among daughters aged 0–14 years in three East African countries: DHS data from 2016–2022	12
Causes of death among older children and adolescents (5–19 years) in the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study, Tanzania, 1995–2022	12
Prevalence and correlates of depression among older persons in rural eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey	12
The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana	11
Community-based hearing aid fitting model for adults in low-income communities facilitated by community health workers: a feasibility study	11
Disability transitions and life expectancy: a national longitudinal study on social isolation and loneliness in China	11
Interactive effects of atmospheric oxidising pollutants and heat waves on the risk of residential mortality	11
The role of community health workers in influencing social connectedness using the household model: a qualitative case study from Malawi	11
Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa – a point of (no) return	11
Implementation matters: program impact pathway analysis of four sectoral nutrition-sensitive interventions in Anambra and Kebbi states, Nigeria	11
Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia	11

Using maternal sepsis patient journeys to map and prioritise barriers to quality maternal healthcare in Malawi: a multidisciplinary stakeholder consultation workshop	11
Multilevel correlates of childhood violence in refugee settings: findings from the Ethiopia humanitarian violence against children and youth survey	11
Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose: a scoping review of studies from 1981 - 2021	10
Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda	10
Mental health and substance use among international migrant workers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Public opinion survey on heritable human genome editing in South Africa: a study protocol	10
Young widowhood as a predictor of HIV risk behaviors in a high HIV prevalence setting in Siaya County, Kenya	10
Does health insurance coverage improve cardiometabolic risk factor levels? Quasi-experimental evidence from India	10
Women’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its association with child stunting: findings from a population-based study in rural Rwanda	10
Beyond supply and demand: a new ecological framework for understanding the access of young migrants to sexual and reproductive health services in Sweden	10
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study	9
Maternal nutrition practices and behaviours in the context of a Cash-Plus intervention: a qualitative study in Rajasthan, India	9
Adapting a digital quality improvement system (Neotree) for newborn care in primary health centres and community hospitals: a mixed-methods implementation study in Malawi	9
Social inequalities in social-emotional problems among preschool children: a population-based study in Sweden	9
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda	9
Spatial epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in Karnataka using GIS-based analysis	9
Spatio-temporal patterns of health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in Volta region, Ghana: a repeated cross-sectional ecological study using health facility d	9
Bibliometric and visual analysis of global research on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and children’s health: evidence, emerging concerns, and research gaps	9
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens	9
‘If her body responds then you know she wants it’: a qualitative study on how young people in Ecuador and Uganda understand and practice consent	9
Empowering women: intimate partner violence and its association with unintended pregnancies, contraceptive use, and HIV infection among Ugandan women: a cross-sectional population-based study in Wakis	9
Training and supervision of lay mental health workers in community-based interventions in East Africa: a scoping review	9
The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods	9
A decade of designing and implementing electronic health records in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	9
Estimating the level and determinants of catastrophic expenditure related to hypertension management in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	9
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization	9
Four-quadrant analysis of universal health coverage progress in the Western Pacific region: facilitators, barriers, and trajectories to 2030	8
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence	8
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review	8
Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town: a descriptive study	8
`This is our country and somehow, we have to make it work’: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of the enablers of non-migration and return migration in a cohort of Nigerian medical doctors a	8
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	8
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis	8
Depression, anxiety, and medication adherence among Sudanese refugees with chronic illnesses in Aftit refugee camp, northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	8
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol	8
Evaluation of care and clinical outcomes after the implementation of an electronic medical record system for type 1 diabetes management in Rwanda	8
Fiscal policies and regulations for healthy diets in Sri Lanka: an analysis of the political economy of taxation and traffic light labelling for sugar-sweetened beverages	8
Systemic challenges in the supply and distribution of medicines in conflict-affected areas of Mali: a qualitative study	8
Assessment of adherence to the National Malaria Guidelines in treatment management of malaria among children under five in integrated community case management in the DRC	8
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa	8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania	8
Optimizing healthcare for blood donors at risk of transfusion-transmissible infections: pre-implementation mixed methods protocol	8
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis	8
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis	8
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents	8
Changes in self-reported risky sexual behaviour indicators among adults receiving regular risk reduction counselling and optional initiation of pre-exposure prophylaxis in an HIV vaccine preparedness	8
All-cause and cause-specific mortality trends among people with and without HIV in the Siaya health and demographic surveillance system, Kenya, 2011–2018	8
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment	8
Urban climate–NCD syndemics in LMICs: a transdisciplinary framework for Health action	7
Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho	7
Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR	7
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	7
Is black carbon associated with cardiovascular and cancer mortality? Evidence from the Malmö Diet and Cancer Cohort	7
Help-seeking among women with disabilities who experience domestic violence in Uganda: evidence from UDHS 2006, 2011, and 2016	7
The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review	7
Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia	7
Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia	7
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health	7
Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Co	7
Determinants of outpatient healthcare-seeking behaviors among the rural poor affected by chronic conditions in India: a population-based cross-sectional study in seven states	7
Improving WASH facilities and practices in Bangladeshi schools: progress and challenges from 2014 to 2018	7
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study	7
Can a sovereign health research culture bolster Africa‘s involvement in global health?	7
’We discovered new ways of learning’: a qualitative study of child, caregiver, and facilitator perspectives on an inclusive school readiness programme for caregivers in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tanzania	7
Research capacity-building of midwives expanding access to safe abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo: transnational research collaborations with civil society organizations	7
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda	7
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study	7
Sustained reduction in program-reported TB death rate in six districts following Tamil Nadu Kasanoi Erappila Thittam in southern India	7
Geographic and socioeconomic inequities in cesarean delivery rates at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: A secondary analysis of the national family health survey-5	7
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned	7
Exploring multisectoral collaboration in implementing comprehensive sexuality education framework at the provincial level in Zambia: a qualitative study	7
Caregiving burden and depressive symptoms among rural caregivers of older adults living with disabilities in China: the role of formal and informal support	7
Community engagement to develop a dialogue-drama on adolescent pregnancy in a marginalised migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: an ethnographic approach to participatory action research	7
Client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South Ethiopian public health facilities: an institution-based cross-sectional survey	7
A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action	7