OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Evidence Based 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrast‐enhanced ultrasound studies registered on ClinicalTrials.gov: A cross‐sectional analysis of characteristics, early discontinuation, and reporting results	79
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Topical NSAIDs in the Treatment of Sports Injuries	47
Effects of inactivated COVID‐19 vaccinations on the IVF/ICSI‐ET live birth rate and pregnancy complication in a population of southern China: A retrospective cohort study	32
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Association of C‐reactive protein with breast cancer is stronger for the potentially obese women: A Chinese case‐control study and meta‐analysis of 19 studies	24
New way, new recommendation: Individualized treatment of novel antidiabetic drugs for people living with type 2 diabetes based on the cardiorenal risks	24
Poor management of hepatitis C infection will cause serious issues for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease	22
Machine learning for predicting intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants	20
Treatment response in hemato‐oncology in the context of the German early benefit assessment of drugs compared to clinical practice	20
Issue Information	20
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Have we been underestimating the burden of heart failure?	18
Lack of evidence‐based practice discipline in the curriculums of the Brazilian undergraduate dentistry programs	18
Diagnostic performance of angiography‐derived fractional flow reserve and CT‐derived fractional flow reserve: A systematic review and Bayesian network meta‐analysis	16
Effects of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention: A prospective meta‐analysis	15
Wilson disease‐related cirrhosis is associated with increased odds of hemolytic anemia	14
Clinical practice guideline for kangaroo mother care in preterm and low birth weight infants	14
The SHARE: SHam Acupuncture REporting guidelines and a checklist in clinical trials	13
Guideline on Establishing Diagnostic Criteria for Chinese Medicine Syndromes	13
Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangioscopy in Hepatolithiasis Associated With Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study	12
Patient‐Reported Outcome Scale for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Development and Validation in China	11
Outcomes reporting in clinical trials of Chinese herbal medicine on ulcerative colitis: A systematic review	11
Efficacy of scalp stimulation for multidomain cognitive impairment in patients with post‐stroke cognitive impairment and dementia: A network meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of moderators	10
Risk factors, clinical manifestation, precaution, and management of monkeypox	9
ACURATE: A guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture	9

More work is needed on cost‐utility analyses of robotic‐assisted surgery	8
Diagnosis and treatment guideline for Chinese medicine on acute trachea‐bronchitis	8
Characterizing health services interventions for evidence syntheses by using the theme, intensity, provider/platform (TIP) framework	8
Association between duration of action of benzodiazepine hypnotic drugs and blepharospasm: A disproportionality analysis study using FDA Adverse Events Reporting System	6
Effect of daily chlorhexidine bathing on reducing infections caused by multidrug‐resistant organisms in intensive care unit patients: A semiexperimental study with parallel controls	6
Incorrect blinding assessments are common in meta‐analyses published in high impact journals	6
Clinical practice guidelines for prevention and treatment of postoperative gastrointestinal disorder with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine (2023)	6
Evaluating the Performance of ChatGPT‐4o in Risk of Bias Assessments	5
Comparation of fixed‐ratio (IDegLira and iGlarLixi) versus free combination of basal insulin and glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and netw	5
An evidence‐based guideline on treating lumbar disc herniation with traditional Chinese medicine	5
Thiazide‐associated hyponatremia in arterial hypertension patients: A nationwide population‐based cohort study	5
The Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation for the meta‐analysis of proportions: Recent criticisms were seriously misleading	5
Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies	5
The ethics of some placebo‐controlled randomized controlled trials	5
The main features of physician assistants/associates and insights for the development of similar professions in China	4
Integrating Chinese and western medicine for COVID‐19: A living evidence‐based guideline (version 1)	4
Technical specification for developing a clinical practice guideline for the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine	4
Effects of magnetic resonance imaging prognostic factors on neoadjuvant therapy in T3 or N+ rectal cancer: A retrospective cohort study	4
Estimation of death risk factors associated with the coronavirus pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa	4
Gut microbiota modification in neonatal age group on the risk of respiratory tract infections in infancy: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
You are not lab rats at teaching hospitals: A systematic review of resident and fellow participation leads to improved colonoscopy	4
Protocols for clinical practice guidelines	4
ISSUE INFORMATION	4
Misuse of Guidelines Could Disadvantage and Harm Patients	4
Evidence‐based Chinese medicine for the response to public health emergencies: The Guangzhou declaration	4
Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of QuantiFERON‐TB Gold Plus and T‐SPOT.TB in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in febrile patients	4
An extension of the RIGHT statement for introductions and interpretations of clinical practice guidelines: RIGHT for INT	4
Aspirin for prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with high levels of lipoprotein(a): Evidence from two‐sample Mendelian randomization analysis	4
Quality of systematic reviews in HIV: The case of clinical outcomes associated with patient medication adherence	4
Effect of testosterone replacement therapy on lower urinary tract symptoms: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis	3
Recent advancement in integrating artificial intelligence and information technology with real‐world data for clinical decision‐making in China: A scoping review	3
Critical appraisal of a statistical analysis: A novel visual guide	3
Issue Information	3
Current definitions of living systematic reviews and living guidelines need to change	3
Positive relationships between masticatory function, blood lipids, and complement components in Chinese oldest‐old and centenarian population	3
Clinical manifestations of COVID‐19: An overview of 102 systematic reviews with evidence mapping	3
An overview of methodological approaches in systematic reviews	3
Methodological Challenges for the Responsible Use of AI in Systematic Reviews: Risk of Bias Assessment	3
A methodological framework for tackling confounding by indication when assessing the treatment effects of Chinese herbal injections in the real world	3
Osteopathic manipulative treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases	3
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Necessitating evidence‐based practice in COVID‐19 intramuscular vaccination techniques (to aspirate or not) in the context of scientific/evidence uncertainty amidst the pandemic	3
Artificial intelligence and digital health in improving primary health care service delivery in LMICs: A systematic review	3
Ultrasound assessment of twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence for the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes in the first trimester	3
Does HPV biotype influence the characteristics and evolution of plantar warts?	3
Time‐varying effects of sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: An updated meta‐analysis	3
Sleep duration and risk of all‐cause and disease‐specific mortality in adult cancer survivors	3
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An online hepatitis C virus self‐sampling strategy for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and trans women: TESTATE C PLUS 2020–2021	3
Issue Information	3

Use of the informed health choices educational intervention to improve secondary students’ ability to think critically about health interventions in Uganda: A cluster‐randomized trial