OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Internal and Emergency Medicine is 30. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bidirectional association between pneumonia and intestinal infection: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database	1211
Appropriateness of blood transfusions in the ED—is it all about the money?	136
Connecting the dots in a case of multiple lymphadenopathies: IgG4-related disease or Castleman disease?	98
Sclerosing mesenteritis: a rare disease involving the adipose tissue of the bowel mesentery	93
PEGALUS and other patient predictive scores of COVID-19 patients	92
Primary signet ring cell carcinoma of the lung in patient with superior vena cava syndrome and lymphangitic carcinomatosis: a case report	85
Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin	77
Letter to the editor “Improving acute care outcome in internal medicine: the role of early stabilization and intermediate care unit”	77
A case of diabetic foot with severe vascular disease in an elderly no-option patient undergoing lower limb arterialization: a clinical case report	70
Cell and cytokine analyses from bronchoalveolar lavage in non-critical COVID-19 pneumonia	62
Hospitalization for carbon monoxide poisoning is associated with substance use and mood disorders	62
Clinical presentation of celiac disease in adult patients: current real-life experience	57
In-hospital outcomes among patients admitted for myocardial infarction with coexisting respiratory syncytial virus versus influenza infections	54
Correction to: A 61-years-old man with facial swelling and severe pain	53
Food contamination and cardiovascular disease: a narrative review	53
Correction to: A 39‑year‑old woman with non‑follicular pustules on targetoid plaques during treatment for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer	50
Remdesivir-induced bradycardia in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection: a possible vagally-mediated mechanism	50
The effect of relative hypotension on 30-day mortality in older people receiving emergency care	49
Radiological lung sequelae, functional status and symptoms in older patients 3 and 6 months after hospitalization for COVID-19 pneumonia	45
A nomogram based on trauma-induced coagulopathy for predicting hospital mortality in multi-trauma patients: a retrospective study	45
Association between time to geriatric ward admission and change in functional status in older adults after an emergency department visit: a prospective cohort study	42
Trends in mortality related to venous thromboembolism in the European Union, 2012–2020	39
“Ubi est morbus?” restoring the central role of adipose tissue pathophysiology when establishing obesity as a disease	39
Can LDL-C be too low? Time to rethink the “lower is better” paradigm	38
Estimated plasma volume status adds prognostic value to hemodynamic parameters in advanced heart failure	37

A comparison of machine learning algorithms in predicting COVID-19 prognostics	34
Minimal is not minor also in patients with mild traumatic brain injury on oral direct anticoagulant therapy	33
‘E-cigarette smoking’ is a misleading term: a critical review of its use in academic literature	32
ARISE framework: a temporal, multi-organ view of perfusion in sepsis	30
Machine learning phenotypes and heterogeneous albumin effects in cirrhotic AKI: a causal inference study	30