OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Informatics for Health & Social Care is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Predicting COVID-19 new cases in California with Google Trends data and a machine learning approach	45
Usability testing of a mobile health application to support individuals with active tuberculosis: a mixed methods study	25
Fuzzy logic applications in chronic disease in decision-making: a comprehensive healthcare review	22
Integrating artificial intelligence in physical therapy: a quasi-experimental study comparing conventional treatment with a hybrid intervention using telerehabilitation for workers with whiplash syndr	21
Adaptation of Extended eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS-E) in Turkish: validity and reliability analysis	16
A digital health application for managing pediatric asthma: Use and benefits	16
“Alexa, did the pandemic make you smarter?” A follow up content analysis of a virtual assistant’s responses to a prenatal query	12
The effects of extrinsic reward that affect a user’s continuous intention to use a fitness application	9
Usability testing of a palliative care information resource - outcomes from the formative evaluation of the CarerHelp Toolkit prototype	8
Click, care, connect: incorporating nursing informatics into undergraduate nursing curricula	6
Implementation of a patient-centered mobile shared decision making platform and healthcare workers’ evaluation: a case in a medical center	6
Perceptions of patients and nurses regarding the use of wearables in inpatient settings: a mixed methods study	5
Empowering the digital health workforce in Latin America in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the Peruvian case	5
Validation of the eHealth literacy scales: comparison between the shorter and longer versions	5
A critical review of geriatric care in India with regard to the needs, challenges and opportunities: a wearable care approach	5
Maternal health expert feedback on the attributes of a predictive analytics tool to improve pregnancy-related cardiovascular and mental health outcomes in the United States	4
Machine learning models to predict the COVID-19 reproduction rate: combining non-pharmaceutical interventions with sociodemographic and cultural characteristics	4
Automatic user sentiments extraction from diabetes mobile apps – An evaluation of reviews with machine learning	4
Computer vision-based system for early diagnosis of stereoscopic vision alterations	3
A response to comparison of different predicting models to assist the diagnosis of spinal lesions, Chu et al. 2021	3
Perceptions and Attitudes toward a Proposed Digital Health Physical Activity Program among Older Family Caregivers of Persons with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study	3
SLB - SMOTE logistic blending hybrid machine learning model for chronic polycystic ovary syndrome prediction with correlated feature selection	3
Persuasive features for patient engagement through mHealth applications in managing chronic conditions: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	3
AI chatbots in the PICU: parental enthusiasm contrasts with socioeconomic usage disparities	3
Multimorbidity in neurodegenerative diseases: a network analysis	3

Identifying the underlying factors associated with antidepressant drug discontinuation: content analysis of patients’ drug reviews	3
Identifying and prioritizing the barriers and facilitators to mHealth adoption among older adults: an expert-driven best–worst method approach to inform healthcare	3
The effect of m-health applications on self-care improvement in older adults: A systematic review	3
Facilitating family centred care: the co-design development of text messages for fathers with an infant in NICU	2
Identifying biological markers and sociodemographic factors that influence the gap between phenotypic and chronological ages	2
Technology in psychology: a bibliometric analysis of technology-based interventions in clinical and health psychology	2
Adherence, acceptability, and usability of a smartphone app to promote physical exercise in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication	2
Information security and privacy in hospitals: a literature mapping and review of research gaps	2
A systematic review of data elements of computerized physician order entry (CPOE): mapping the data to FHIR	2
A codesigned web platform for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people: a feasibility study	2
Evaluating and refining a pain quality information visualization tool with patients and interpreters to facilitate pain assessment in primary care settings	2