OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conflict and Health is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Decision-making for childhood vaccination in crisis settings: a survey of practice & barriers	72
Fresh whole blood: A feasible alternative in disasters and mass casualty incidents? a systematic review and meta-analysis	66
The political economy of expedience: examining perspectives on military support to Sierra Leone’s Ebola response	62
The role of social capital in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: a systematic review of qualitative studies	54
Health-seeking behavior in conflict-affected settings: a cross-sectional study of internally displaced persons in Somalia	52
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: evidence from a large multi-country study	51
The impact of conflict on infectious disease: a systematic literature review	48
The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income co	40
Family formation among adolescent Rohingya refugees; trajectories into adolescent marriage and childbearing in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh	39
What works and who knows? The importance of community and health worker perspectives in defining solutions to attacks on healthcare	39
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis	35
Developing an integrated model of care for vulnerable populations living with non-communicable diseases in Lebanon: an online theory of change workshop	34
Mental health and structural injustice: a qualitative investigation of interlocking patterns of disadvantage among displaced populations in Nairobi, Kenya	30
Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria: a mixed-methods study	29
Inequity and benefit incidence analysis in healthcare use among Syrian refugees in Egypt	29
Identifying transferable lessons from cholera epidemic responses by Médecins Sans Frontières in Mozambique, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2015–2018: a scoping review	29
Assessing gender responsiveness of COVID-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies	28
Did aid to the Ebola crisis divert aid for reproductive, maternal, and newborn health? An analysis of donor-reported data in Sierra Leone	27
Measuring sexual violence stigma in humanitarian contexts: assessment of scale psychometric properties and validity with female sexual violence survivors from Somalia and Syria	26
The impact of armed conflict on utilisation of health services in north-west Syria: an observational study	25
Community-based surveillance programme evaluation using the platform Nyss implemented by the Somali Red Crescent Society—a mixed methods approach	24
The impact of armed conflict on vaccination coverage: a systematic review of empirical evidence from 1985 to 2025	23
War and chronic illness: a health center-based study of Palestinians with non-communicable diseases in Gaza	23
Humanitarian surgical service utilization by a host country population: comparing surgery patterns between refugees and Tanzanians using an interrupted time-series analysis	22
Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with violence against children in refugee settlements in Uganda	20

Real ethics has dirty feet – data collector perspectives on risk exposure during data collection in conflict-affected Eastern DRC	20
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccine among female healthcare workers in Syria: results from a 2022 cross-sectional survey	20
Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study	19
Feasibility and challenges in sustaining a community based surveillance system in post-Ebola Sierra Leone	19
Measurement of perceived needs in humanitarian contexts using the HESPER scale: a scoping study with reflections on the collaboration between researchers and humanitarian actors	19
Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study	18
Correction: Rebuilding the health sector in Gaza: alternative humanitarian voices	18
Health systems resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice: implications for research, policy and practice	18
Not only vaccine hesitancy, but also vaccination campaign hesitancy drives measles epidemics in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo	18
Under-five mortality during the war in Tigray: A community-based study	17
Translating, contextually adapting, and pilot testing of psychosocial and mental health assessment instruments for Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	16
Assessing the integration of refugee health data into national health information systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Uganda	16
“There is a fear that you will be attacked just for the act of working in health”: a survey of experiences of violence against healthcare in Colombia	16
Impact of periodic intensification of routine immunization within an armed conflict setting and COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon in 2020	16
The lived experience of patients with conflict associated injuries whose wounds are affected by antimicrobial resistant organisms: a qualitative study from northwest Syria	16
Access to care in Afghanistan after august 2021: a cross-sectional study exploring Afghans’ perspectives in 10 provinces	16
Exploring maternal and neonatal health in a conflict-affected setting: cross-sectional findings from Gaza	15
Correction to: The crisis of maternal and child health in Afghanistan	15
Childhood exposure to armed conflict and nutritional health outcomes in Nigeria	15
Navigating challenges, solutions and requirements in the provision of trauma care in conflict settings by humanitarian actors: a scoping literature review	15
School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children	14
Challenges faced by internally displaced diabetes patients in managing their health during a conflict: a qualitative study	14
Providing healthcare under the threat of gang-violence: a survey of Haitian healthcare providers	14
The Red Cross Red Crescent Health Information System (RCHIS): an electronic medical records and health information management system for the red cross red crescent emergency response units	13
Armed actor interventions in humanitarian and public health crises: examining perspectives of crisis-affected community members	13
Telemedicine interventions in six conflict-affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic review	13
Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo	13
Post-migration stressors, mental health and well-being in resettled refugees from Syria: Do individuals’ coping strategies matter?	13
How structural and symbolic violence during resettlement impacts the social and mental wellbeing of forced migrant women: the lived experiences of Arabic speaking survivors of IPV resettled in Melbour	12
Opportunities and challenges in preventing violence against adolescent girls through gender transformative, whole-family support programming in Northeast Nigeria	12
Integrating mental health and psychosocial support into economic inclusion programming for displaced families in Ecuador	12
The implications of the Sudan war on healthcare workers and facilities: a health system tragedy	12
Exploring factors that shaped Syrian refugees integration into Lebanon’s national health system using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework	12
How is the implementation of empirical research results documented in conflict-affected settings? Findings from a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	12
Public knowledge, attitudes, practices, and key influencing factors regarding cancer screening in Yemen	12
The association between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and intimate partner violence in a refugee camp in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia	12
Conducting public health surveillance in areas of armed conflict and restricted population access: a qualitative case study of polio surveillance in conflict-affected areas of Borno State, Nigeria	11
Handwashing with soap and influencing factors in crisis-affected refugee populations in Kenya and Uganda	11
The impact of childhood maltreatment on treatment outcomes for posttraumatic stress symptoms and aggression in male former combatants using narrative exposure therapy [NET] - results from a RCT in Eas	11
Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
A scoping review of epidemics of substance misuse and suicide in Syria: casualties of protracted conflict and political instability	11
A chronicle of crises and emergencies: (dis)continuity of care for Syrian refugee children with neglected non-communicable diseases in Lebanon	11
Strengthening community-based surveillance: lessons learned from the 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak	10
Destruction, disruption and disaster: Sudan’s health system amidst armed conflict	10
Correction: Participatory approaches and methods in gender equality and gender‑based violence research with refugees and internally displaced populations: a scoping review	10
How are hygiene programmes designed in crises? Qualitative interviews with humanitarians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq	10
Global health diplomacy in humanitarian action	10
Impact of the armed conflict in Colombia: consequences in the health system, response and challenges	10
Gender-based violence and infectious disease in humanitarian settings: lessons learned from Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 to inform syndemic policy making	10
Does inter-border conflict influence the views of task sharing among community health volunteers in Nigeria? A qualitative study	10

Evolution and lessons from an integrated service delivery network in North West Syria	10
Measles in conflict-affected northern Syria: results from an ongoing outbreak surveillance program	10