OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Drug-facilitated sexual assault and other crimes: A systematic review by countries	37
A Modern Trail of Tears: The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Crisis in the US	23
Common errors in reporting cause-of-death statement on death certificates: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
The first drug-related death associated with xylazine use in the UK and Europe	20
Sodium nitrite detection in costal cartilage and vitreous humor – Case report of fatal poisoning with sodium nitrite	20
“Touch microbiome” as a potential tool for forensic investigation: A pilot study	19
Impact of forensic medical evaluations on immigration relief grant rates and correlates of outcomes in the United States	19
‘I thought he was going to kill me’: Analysis of 204 case files of adults reporting non-fatal strangulation as part of a sexual assault over a 3 year period	13
The association between childhood trauma and lifetime suicide attempts among a sample of male prisoners: A pilot observational study	13
Forensic application of DNA barcoding in the identification of commonly occurring poisonous plants	12
Transfer Learning Based Automatic Human Identification using Dental Traits- An Aid to Forensic Odontology	12
Factors affecting reporting of suspected child maltreatment in Saudi Arabia	11
Forensic imaging: The sensitivities of various imaging modalities in detecting skeletal trauma in simulated cases of child abuse using a pig model	11
Stranger rape; distinctions between the typical rape type and other types of rape. A study based on data from Center for Victims of Sexual Assault	11
A practical review of adipocere: Key findings, case studies and operational considerations from crime scene to autopsy	11
Reporting after sexual violence: The influence of victim, assault and perpetrator characteristics	11
Role of molecular techniques in PMI estimation: An update	10
Online teaching of forensic medicine and pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic: A course evaluation	10
Blockchain technology and universal health coverage: Health data space in global migration	10
Research trends in forensic anthropology: A bibliometric analysis	9
Strangulation in sexual homicide: Is it opportunity, victim's vulnerability or sadism?	9
Legal liability facing COVID-19 in dentistry: Between malpractice and preventive recommendations	9
An evaluation of Italian medical students attitudes and knowledge regarding forensic medicine	9
The fine line of defensive medicine	9
Application of 3D imaging and selfies in forensic dental identification	9

Investigating the phenomenon of overkill in Greece: A forensic psychiatric autopsy study between 2005 and 2020	9
Evidence of physical violence and torture in refugees and migrants seeking asylum in France	8
Anatomical distribution and autopsy features of gunshot injuries to support the manner of death	8
Traumatic brain injury and forensic evaluations: Three case studies of U.S. asylum-seekers	8
Crossbow injuries: A case report with experimental reconstruction study and a systematic review of literature	8
Relationship of injuries detected in fatal falls with sex, body mass index, and fall height: An autopsy study	8
Effectiveness of various methods of DNA isolation from bones and teeth of animals exposed to high temperature	8
Look before washing and cleaning: A caveat to pathologists and anthropologists	8
Discriminating between consensual intercourse and sexual assault: Genital-anal injury pattern in females	8
Pathology of fatal diffuse brain injury in severe non-penetrating head trauma	8
COVID-19-related deaths in residential care homes for elderly: The situation in Italy	8
Violence against pregnant women in the experience of the rape centre of Turin: Clinical and forensic evaluation	7
Elemental composition of hair as a marker for forensic human identification	7
Diagnostic value of high-sensitivity troponin T in postmortem diagnosis of sudden cardiac death	7
COVID-19 pandemic: Coroner's database of death inquiries with clinical epidemiology and total and excess mortality analyses in the District of Kildare March to June 2020	7
Forensic toxicological and analytical aspects of carbamate poisoning – A review	7
The “forensic paradox” of aging unaccompanied minors in the migration crisis: Why medicine and forensics are a must	7
Factors affecting management of corpses of the confirmed COVID-19 patients during pandemic: A systematic review	7
Arrest-related death on the basis of a drug-induced excited delirium syndrome	7
A fatal suicidal sodium nitrite ingestion determined six days after death	7
Oral form of auto-brewery syndrome	7
Fatal work-related injuries in the Genoa district (North-Western Italy): Forensic analysis of the 10-year period between 2011 and 2020	7
Increasing age and methamphetamine use	7
Reconstruction of a real-world car-to-pedestrian collision using geomatics techniques and numerical simulations	7
Severe poisoning after smoking a mixture of 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl (4-FiBF) and alpha-pyrolidinoisohexaphenone (α-PiHP)	7
Estimation of sex based on postcranial elements in European American and Latin American populations	6
Toxico-epidemiology of acute poisoning; an exploratory study from a tertiary care hospital in South India along with global comparisons and solutions	6
Forensic medicine in Nepal: Past, present, and future	6
Suicide pacts in the Milan district (Italy): A retrospective autopsy-based study with literature review	6
Structures, processes and outcomes of health care for people detained in short-term police custody settings: A scoping review	6
Decomposition variability between the scene and autopsy examination and implications for post-mortem interval estimations	6
Effects of antibiotics ceftriaxone and levofloxacin on the growth of Calliphora vomitoria L. (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and effects on the determination of the post-mortem interval	6
Volumetric and linear evaluation of the sphenoidal sinus of a Brazilian population, in cone beam computed tomography	6
Forensic DNA phenotyping: Inferring phenotypic traits from crime scene DNA	6
Comparative study on informed consent regulation in health care among Italy, France, United Kingdom, Nordic Countries, Germany, and Spain	6
Questions of logic in Atlas methods of dental age estimation	6
Cerebrospinal fluid in forensic toxicology: Current status and future perspectives	5
An approximation to the identification of contexts, experiences, and profiles of victims of drug-facilitated sexual assaults	5
Injury patterns and demographics due to legal intervention seen in US emergency departments	5
Fatal captive tiger attack – A case report with review of literature	5
The forensic application of the Glycophorin A on the Amussat's sign with a brief review of the literature	5
Macroscopic determination of the pre-burning condition of human remains recovered from an unusual forensic context: A case report	5
A pilot study for investigating the feasibility of supervised machine learning approaches for the classification of pedestrians struck by vehicles	5
Sudden and unexpected death in childhood due to an undiagnosed hepatoblastoma: Case report and review of literature	5
Dental implants and forensic identification: A systematic review	5
Estimation of chlorpyrifos distribution in forensic visceral samples and body fluids using LCMS method	5
The paradigm of forensic nursing for nursing aspirants in India: Promises, caveats & future directions	5
Examining the use of different sample types following decomposition to estimate year of death using bomb pulse dating	5
Socio-economic, health and environmental factors influencing suicide rates: A cross-country study in the Eastern Mediterranean region	5
Two cases of fatal iatrogenic air embolism confirmed by autopsies	5

Training, standardization and electronic medical certificate of cause of death	5
Establishment and validation of the LC-MS/MS method for the determination of lincomycin in human blood: Application to an allergy case in forensic science	5
Estimation of stature from radiographically determined lower limb bone length in modern Chinese	5
Reproducibility and reliability of fingerprint microfeatures: Effect of immersing hand in water at different temperatures	5
Which tissue to take? A retrospective study of the identification success of altered human remains	5
Sternal aspirate sampling of Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) and Cyanobacteria in suspected drowning cases	5
A fatal case of acetamiprid poisoning with turquoise urine	4
2,4-Dinitrophenol overdose - Everything old is new again	4
Proposal for a harmonized protocol for COVID-19 screening and necropsy in forensic sciences facilities	4
Common medical ethics dilemmas: Few reflections from a Saudi perspective	4
Determination of amatoxin concentration in heat-treated samples of Amanita phalloides by high-performance liquid chromatography: A forensic approach	4
Update on risk factors and biomarkers of sudden unexplained cardiac death	4
The urgency of legal regulations existence in case of COVID-19 vaccination refusal in Indonesia	4
Description and evaluation of cocaine body-packers management in French Guiana (2016–2019)	4
Chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment from the forensic medicine perspective: A review of the updated literature	4
Evaluation of proximal humeral epiphysis ossification in 3.0 T MR images according to the Dedouit staging method: Is it be used for age of majority?	4
Difference in microRNA levels in the post-mortem blood from different sampling sites: A proof of concept	4
Using simulation mannequins and actors in training for external post-mortem examinations -experiences from use in medical students and police officers	4
Sexual dimorphism and bilateral difference of fingerprint sweat pore among Slovak population	4
Physician complicity in human rights violations: Involuntary sterilization among women from Mexico and Central America seeking asylum in the United States	4
Helium suicide – A suffocation or a barotrauma?	4
A roadmap to the safe practice of forensic medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Forensic pathological study of methadone-related deaths in the Genoa (Italy) district: A six-year study	4
Frequency of biological non-skeletal materials in dry bone scenarios	4
Suspension torture and its physical sequelae	4
Expert evidence: Frequently asked questions	4
Cirsoid aneurysm rupture of the splenic artery as a rare cause of fatal hemoperitoneum	4
Evaluation of elderly patients in adult suicide cases admitted to the emergency department	4
Repeated measures analysis of projectile penetration in porcine legs as a function of storage condition	4
Understanding Risk of Suicide among perpetrators who view child sexual abuse material (CSAM)	4
Electrolyte analysis of pleural effusion for discrimination between seawater and freshwater drowning in decomposed bodies	3
Estimation of blood and urine levels of eight metals and essential trace elements collected from living Subjects compared to urine, cardiac and femoral postmortem blood, and other postmortem samples:	3
Developmental changes of the facial skeleton from birth to 18 years within a South African cohort (A computed tomography study)	3
Acute intranasal intoxication with mercuric chloride taken accidently instead of cocaine - A case report	3
Subdural and epidural hematoma occurrence in relation to the head impact site: An autopsy study	3
Educating for practice: A new redesigned pedagogical model of clinical forensic medicine	3
Gene expression as age estimation marker in the larval stages of the forensic blowfly, Chrysomya albiceps, at different temperatures	3
Repeat attenders are disproportionately vulnerable: An exploration of revictimisation at Saint Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre	3
Sexual violence in patients with psychiatric conditions: Factors for consideration in case management	3
A social media primer for reluctant forensic pathologists	3
Sudden and unexpected deaths due to non-traumatic abdominal disorders: A forensic perspective	3
Pathological causes of sudden death in autopsied children with reference to peculiar findings: An Egyptian perspective	3
Distinguishing thermally altered bones from debris using imaging and fluorescence spectrometry	3
A comparative study of the injury pattern between suicidal and accidental falls from height in Northern Tunisia	3
Development of forensic medicine in Rwanda- past, present, and future perspectives	3
Insulin murder and the case of Colin Norris	3
The prevalence of non-accidental trauma among children with polytrauma: A nationwide level-I trauma centre study	3
Abuse of defibrillator pads: Suicide by electrocution	3
Forensic psychiatric and criminal dimensions of juvenile homicide/attempted homicide cases in Turkey	3
Awareness on tetrodotoxin of illegal activity: forensic issue from a rare homicide case report and literature review	3
Genital injuries and allegation of digital vaginal penetration – A retrospective examination of forensic case notes	3
Microbial community analyses provide a differential diagnosis for the antemortem and postmortem injury of decayed cadaver: An animal model	3
Conducting remote medical asylum evaluations in the United States during COVID-19: Clinicians’ perspectives on acceptability, challenges and opportunities	3
Hidden aspects of child abuse	3
Identifying the prevalence of genito-anal injuries amongst clients attending St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre following an allegation of anal penetration	3
The significance of evaluating sphenoid sinus fluid by postmortem computed tomography in cases of drowning	3
Unenhanced PMCT in the diagnosis of fatal traumatic brain injury in a charred body	3
Facial age progression: Review of scientific literature and value for missing person identification in forensic medicine	3
Elongated styloid process: An incidental autopsy finding of clinical and medico-legal significance	3
Early postmortem biochemical, histological, and immunohistochemical alterations in skeletal muscles of rats exposed to boldenone undecylenate: Forensic implication	3
Case stories and Post-violence behavior of women seeking medical attention at the emergency department due to physical violence	3
Quality of death certification based on the documented underlying cause of death: A retrospective study	3
Comperative evaluation of Nolla, Willems and Cameriere methods for age estimation of Turkish children in the Central Black Sea Region: A preliminary study	3
The socio-economic status of families experiencing the sudden unexpected death of an infant – Is it possibly related to a higher rate of non-natural deaths among them	3