OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Internal and Emergency Medicine is 28. 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
Education to increase efficiency in senior emergency medicine residents: too little, too late?	599
Frequency of emergency medical service contacts after hospital admissions	89
Food contamination and cardiovascular disease: a narrative review	89
Minimal is not minor also in patients with mild traumatic brain injury on oral direct anticoagulant therapy	74
Bidirectional association between pneumonia and intestinal infection: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database	59
Outcomes for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction in the United States: insights from the National Inpatient Sample	59
Correction to: A 39‑year‑old woman with non‑follicular pustules on targetoid plaques during treatment for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer	58
Prevalence of hypothermia and its associated clinical and biological features (such as thrombocytopenia) in emergency department patients: a case series	54
Appropriateness of blood transfusions in the ED—is it all about the money?	53
Connecting the dots in a case of multiple lymphadenopathies: IgG4-related disease or Castleman disease?	48
Sclerosing mesenteritis: a rare disease involving the adipose tissue of the bowel mesentery	47
PEGALUS and other patient predictive scores of COVID-19 patients	46
Correction to: A 61-years-old man with facial swelling and severe pain	43
A case of diabetic foot with severe vascular disease in an elderly no-option patient undergoing lower limb arterialization: a clinical case report	41
A nomogram based on trauma-induced coagulopathy for predicting hospital mortality in multi-trauma patients: a retrospective study	40
Hospitalization for carbon monoxide poisoning is associated with substance use and mood disorders	40
‘E-cigarette smoking’ is a misleading term: a critical review of its use in academic literature	34
Estimated plasma volume status adds prognostic value to hemodynamic parameters in advanced heart failure	32
Trends in mortality related to venous thromboembolism in the European Union, 2012–2020	31
Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin	31
Primary signet ring cell carcinoma of the lung in patient with superior vena cava syndrome and lymphangitic carcinomatosis: a case report	31
The effect of relative hypotension on 30-day mortality in older people receiving emergency care	30
NAFLD determined by Dallas Steatosis Index is associated with poor outcomes in COVID-19 pneumonia: a cohort study	30
Cell and cytokine analyses from bronchoalveolar lavage in non-critical COVID-19 pneumonia	30
Emergency department length of stay (ED-LOS) as synonymous with critical and clinical risk	29

Radiological lung sequelae, functional status and symptoms in older patients 3 and 6 months after hospitalization for COVID-19 pneumonia	29
Association between time to geriatric ward admission and change in functional status in older adults after an emergency department visit: a prospective cohort study	29
Letter to the editor “Improving acute care outcome in internal medicine: the role of early stabilization and intermediate care unit”	29
Clinical presentation of celiac disease in adult patients: current real-life experience	28