OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ-British Medical Journal is 95. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Brexit three years on: Health and the NHS are still suffering	2717
Sixty seconds on . . . EU covid certificates	1136
Methenamine is as effective as antibiotics at preventing urinary tract infections	885
GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months	793
Ask the consultant: old age psychiatry	449
Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal	421
Sixty seconds on . . . Wembley	404
Doctors should ask patients about gambling, draft guidance recommends	373
Cryptic Christmas crossword	327
The BMJ Awards 2021: “Landmark” study on dexamethasone wins paper of the year	324
Doctor’s voluntary erasure to avoid fitness to practise hearing can’t be challenged legally, judge rules	315
E-cigarette maker Juul will pay $462m to settle deceptive marketing allegations in six US states	308
Peter Gould	296
Judge stops attempt to sue companies over harms of pregnancy test in the absence of evidence	291
Halt patient access to medical records if there are safety concerns, BMA tells GPs	289
Sixty seconds on . . . excellence awards	285
Poverty is behind deterioration in health in under 5s in the UK, find researchers	281
Subacute small bowel obstruction or chronic large bowel obstruction	267
Covid-19: Has the spread of omicron BA.2 made antibody treatments redundant?	255
Vaccination to prevent mpox	254
Pain in right buttock after carbon monoxide poisoning	251
Covid-19: Silencing health workers, researchers, and journalists caused unnecessary deaths, says Amnesty	250
CQC is reviewing GP service provider’s use of less qualified staff after BBC investigation	241
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended	239
Children lack access to routine dental care	228

John Arthur Lunn	227
The BMJ Awards 2021: Critical care team of the year	227
Roundup from the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2023	225
Nigel Standfield: vascular surgeon who trained generations worldwide	225
Covid-19: Omicron drives weekly record high in global infections	218
Covid-19: How Kerala kept itself above water in India’s devastating second wave	217
Junior doctors’ pay dispute in England: Government and BMA agree to look at mediation	216
Helen Salisbury: Risk and responsibility when working with physician associates	216
An international medical student’s perspective	212
BMA calls for investigation into debacle over covid and flu vaccinations	212
Government’s “neglect” of GP workforce has made services unsafe, conference hears	210
Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report	210
Managing risk: GP Pipin Singh	209
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk	207
February top picks: new beginnings	206
Dystonia	194
Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed	191
Mortality risk in transgender people is twice as high as in cisgender people, data show	190
Pension changes won’t stem doctor exodus, warns BMA	181
At the heart of communities: the consultant geriatrician	178
Julian André Bradley	172
GP is liable only for costs of harm related to her advice in case of “wrongful birth,” say Supreme Court judges	170
When I use a word . . . Commercial clinical trials	168
Heliotrope rash	163
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	162
Gas in the kidney	155
The NHS crisis is not an equal crisis	148
How Botswana discovered the omicron variant	146
Helen Salisbury: Where have our GPs gone?	142
Judge rebukes expert witness in injured baby case for series of failings	140
Charles Wakeley	138
Sixty seconds on . . . xylazine	137
Charles Martin-Bates	134
Three ways genomics is already helping NHS patients—and three ways it will soon	133
David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic	132
Winter is coming—but will the gloomiest forecasts come to pass?	130
Covid-19: Italy sees protests against mandatory health passports for workplaces	128
Formula milk companies are exploiting legal loopholes, say campaigners	128
Author’s reply to Dawson	128
A baby with a scalp plaque	127
Obesity: Integrated care boards close lists for weight management services as demand skyrockets	127
Surgeon who repeated false claims about covid and vaccines while suspended is struck off	126
Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid	125
Time to improve the clarity of clinical trial reports by including estimands	124
NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals	124
What is driving the pandemic related surge in disordered eating?	123
Why I . . . make podcasts	121
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes	120
Halving gap in healthy life expectancy must be priority for next government, says NHS leader	120
Covid inquiry: Tears and tensions as Sturgeon takes the stand	118

Patient access to medical records: What is happening with the rollout in England?	118
Covid-19 vaccination and postmenopausal bleeding	117
Aduhelm: Approval of Alzheimer’s drug was highly unorthodox, finds report	117
American women’s health “is in a perilous place,” study finds	116
Junior doctors pay dispute: What’s happening across the UK?	113
UK healthcare provision: the new normal is not good enough	111
Stuart Graeme Parker	111
Gerald Keen: pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon	110
Ian Crerar Menzies	110
Nitin Shripad Pradhan	109
Don’t shift the burden on to me	109
An older woman with abdominal pain and ascites	107
Covid-19: Early stage cancer diagnoses fell by third in first lockdown	105
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—16 February 2023	105
Guidelines also need to consider what patients and families must—and can—contribute	105
The inefficiency of NHS surgery: beds aren’t “stolen” by the medical team	103
The covid-19 pandemic three years on	102
Bilateral hearing loss and constricted visual fields	100
Without junior doctors, there is no NHS	97
NewJAMAeditor says she will focus on communication, diversity, and health equity	95
The commercial determinants of health: The mini-budget is a consequence of foundational forces medicine must bear witness to	95