OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Implementation Science is 14. 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
Optimizing vaccine uptake in sub-Saharan Africa: a collaborative COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Madagascar using an adaptive approach	3529
Family cascade screening for equitable identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type III randomized controlled trial	475
Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review	348
The Dissemination Research Logic Model for advancing dissemination science and practice	194
Mapping implementation strategies to reach community-dwelling older adults in Northwest Switzerland	133
Evaluating the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to reduce low-value care in adults hospitalized following trauma: a protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial	123
Correction: Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals	117
Top-level leaders and implementation strategies to support organizational diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) interventions: a qualitative study of top-level DEIB leaders in healthcare	112
Strategies for enacting health policy codesign: a scoping review and direction for research	98
Understanding pathways from implementation to sustainment: a longitudinal, mixed methods analysis of promising practices implemented in the Veterans Health Administration	94
Evaluating the implementation of integrated knowledge translation in a multi-country research consortium in Sub-Saharan Africa – a mixed methods comparative case study	86
The Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability (PRISM)-capabilities model for use of Artificial Intelligence in community-engaged implementation science research	85
Optimizing qualitative methods in implementation research: a resource for editors, reviewers, authors, and researchers to dispel ten common misperceptions about qualitative research methods	81
Making implementation science more efficient: capitalizing on opportunities beyond the field	76
Audit and feedback to reduce unwarranted clinical variation at scale: a realist study of implementation strategy mechanisms	74
Revisiting the policy ecology framework for implementation of evidence-based practices in mental health settings	69
Assessing the comparative effectiveness of ECHO and coaching implementation strategies in a jail/provider MOUD implementation trial	68
Monitoring systems for public health program and policy implementation in community settings: features and suggested actions from a scoping review	62
Implementing prescriber-pharmacist collaboration to improve evidence-based medication prescribing using asynchronous, non-interruptive electronic health record notifications	61
Implementing traumatic brain injury screening in behavioral health treatment settings: results of an explanatory sequential mixed-methods investigation	60
Proceedings of the 5th UK Implementation Science Research Conference	58
The relative value of Pre-Implementation stages for successful implementation of evidence-informed programs	55
Strategies for de-implementation of low-value care—a scoping review	54
Evaluation of research co-design in health: a systematic overview of reviews and development of a framework	48
Effects of implementation strategies on nursing practice and patient outcomes: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	47

Achieving cardiovascular health equity in community mental health: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid Type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial	47
Correction: Incentivizing appropriate malaria case management in the private sector: a study protocol for two linked cluster randomized controlled trials to evaluate provider- and client-focused inter	46
Implementation timelines across conditions: a universal Stages of Implementation Completion® (SIC) comparison of research-led and real-world implementations	40
Implementation fidelity, student outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer strategies for Masters-level therapists in urban schools: results from a cluster randomized trial	39
Ready to screen implementation trial protocol: a cluster randomized implementation trial comparing a bundled implementation strategy versus a simple implementation strategy to improve intention to scr	39
Influence of physician networks on the implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia	38
Implementing pharmacist-prescriber collaboration to improve evidence-based anticoagulant use: a randomized trial	34
Implementation outcomes from the Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria program: results from a type 2 hybrid interrupted time series trial	33
Sustainable deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis: study protocol for the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) type III effectiveness-deimpl	32
Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations	32
The effectiveness of a knowledge translation intervention on the implementation of NEWS2 in nursing homes, a pragmatic cluster RCT	31
Implementing Australia’s psychotropic clinical practice guidelines in residential aged care: the EMBRACE helix counterbalanced randomised controlled trial comparing knowledge brokers with pharmacist e	31
Implementation of co-designed strategies enhances referral to pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD in tertiary care: an interrupted time series study	31
Successful adoption of an advance care planning evidence-based practice: impact of clinical champion and site factors	30
Community-engaged optimization of COVID-19 rapid evaluation and testing experiences: roll-out implementation optimization trial	30
Supporting teams with designing for dissemination and sustainability: the design, development, and usability of a digital interactive platform	30
Integrating knowledge and action: learnings from an implementation program for food security and food sovereignty with First Nations communities within Canada	30
Identifying barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of computerized clinical decision support systems in hospitals: a NASSS framework-informed scoping review	29
Required sample size to detect mediation in 3-level implementation studies	29
Process evaluation of two large randomized controlled trials to understand factors influencing family physicians’ use of antibiotic audit and feedback reports	29
The MOHMQuit (Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking) Trial: protocol for a stepped-wedge implementation trial to improve best practice smoking cessation support in public antenata	28
Effect of core versus enhanced implementation strategies on adherence to a clinical pathway for managing anxiety and depression in cancer patients in routine care: a cluster randomised controlled tria	28
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health	28
Getting to Implementation: applying data-driven implementation strategies to improve guideline concordant surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma	27
Scaling up a brief alcohol intervention to prevent HIV infection in Vietnam: a cluster randomized, implementation trial	26
Implementing an AI-enhanced clinical decision support system for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: a survey-based randomized controlled trial of antibiotic precision and impact on survival	25
Publisher Correction: A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-2022	25
De-implementation strategy to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for ambulatory HIV-infected patients with upper respiratory tract infections in Mozambique: a study protocol of a cluster rand	24
Sustaining the collaborative chronic care model in outpatient mental health: a matrixed multiple case study	23
A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-2022	23
Evidence for objects of implementation in healthcare: considerations for Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications	21
Cost analysis of implementing a community health worker-led weight reduction randomized-controlled trial among prediabetic south asian patients at primary care sites in NYC	21
Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory	21
Implementing Germ Defence digital behaviour change intervention via all primary care practices in England to reduce respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: an efficient cluster randomised	20
Correction: Firm, yet flexible: a fidelity debate paper with two case examples	20
Navigating qualitative methods choices in dissemination and implementation research	19
Improving outcomes for hospitalised First Nations peoples through greater cultural safety and better communication: the Communicate Study Partnership study protocol	19
Applied methods for matching implementation strategies to determinants: a scoping review of scientific and grey literature, and qualitative exploration of practice experiences	19
Alarm with care—a de-implementation strategy to reduce fall prevention alarm use in US hospitals: a study protocol for a hybrid 2 effectiveness-implementation trial	19
Inter-organizational alignment and implementation outcomes in integrated mental healthcare for children and adolescents: a cross-sectional observational study	19
Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers: learning from a pre-mortem	18
Implementing collaborative practices in healthcare settings using champions: a scoping review	18
Implementation and scale-up of a single-visit, screen-and-treat approach with thermal ablation for sustainable cervical cancer prevention services: a protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized tr	18
Properties of adaptive, cluster-randomised controlled trials with few clusters: a simulation study	17
Correction: Evidence based QUality Improvement for Prescribing Stewardship in ICU (EQUIPS-ICU): protocol for type III hybrid implementation-effectiveness study	17
A comparative effectiveness trial for universal psychosocial screening with the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) across 18 childhood cancer programs in the United States: adoption, penetration, and	17
Impact of an adapted diabetes prevention program in a spanish primary care setting: protocol for a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster-randomized trial (ALADIM)	17
Implementing a school-based HIV prevention program during public health emergencies: lessons learned in The Bahamas	16
Scaling up an intervention to protect preterm infants from neurodevelopmental disabilities — findings from a qualitative process evaluation comparing standard with enhanced quality improvement support	15
Exploring change mechanisms of implementation strategies for providing guideline-adherent care by interprofessional teams in inpatient settings: a realist synthesis	14

Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review