OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Physiotherapy 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Clinimetrics: The Victorian Institute of Sport Questionnaire - gluteal tendinopathy (VISA-G)	808596525
Physiotherapy management for COVID-19 in the acute hospital setting: clinical practice recommendations	402
Some types of exercise are more effective than others in people with chronic low back pain: a network meta-analysis	96
Physiotherapists and patients report positive experiences overall with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	80
Research Note: In a meta-analysis, the I index does not tell us how much the effect size varies across studies	73
Telerehabilitation improves physical function and reduces dyspnoea in people with COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 conditions: a systematic review	56
Patient education improves pain and function in people with knee osteoarthritis with better effects when combined with exercise therapy: a systematic review	47
Advanced telehealth technology improves home-based exercise therapy for people with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review	37
Lung ultrasound has greater accuracy than conventional respiratory assessment tools for the diagnosis of pleural effusion, lung consolidation and collapse: a systematic review	35
An international core capability framework for physiotherapists to deliver quality care via videoconferencing: a Delphi study	31
Physiotherapy management for COVID-19 in the acute hospital setting and beyond: an update to clinical practice recommendations	30
Physiotherapists may improve management of knee osteoarthritis through greater psychosocial focus, being proactive with advice, and offering longer-term reviews: a qualitative study	27
Physiotherapists during COVID-19: usual business, in unusual times	26
Clinimetrics: Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)	25
Physiotherapy management of urinary incontinence in females	25
Preoperative physiotherapy is cost-effective for preventing pulmonary complications after major abdominal surgery: a health economic analysis of a multicentre randomised trial	23
Feedback-guided exercises performed on a tablet touchscreen improve return to work, function, strength and healthcare usage more than an exercise program prescribed on paper for people with wrist, han	23
Group education, night splinting and home exercises reduce conversion to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome: a multicentre randomised trial	19
Physiotherapy management of sciatica	19
Manual lymphatic drainage with or without fluoroscopy guidance did not substantially improve the effect of decongestive lymphatic therapy in people with breast cancer-related lymphoedema (EFforT-BCRL	18
Bobath therapy is inferior to task-specific training and not superior to other interventions in improving lower limb activities after stroke: a systematic review	18
Treadmill walking improves walking speed and distance in ambulatory people after stroke and is not inferior to overground walking: a systematic review	17
Adding mobilisation with movement to exercise and advice hastens the improvement in range, pain and function after non-operative cast immobilisation for distal radius fracture: a multicentre, randomis	17
People considering exercise to prevent low back pain recurrence prefer exercise programs that differ from programs known to be effective: a discrete choice experiment	17
Physiotherapy management of neck pain	17

Multifaceted interventions are required to improve physical activity behaviour in hospital care: a meta-ethnographic synthesis of qualitative research	17
If we can’t see race and ethnicity in research, how will we see racial inequality?	16
Multidisciplinary, exercise-based oncology rehabilitation programs improve patient outcomes but their effects on healthcare service-level outcomes remain uncertain: a systematic review	16
Some conservative interventions are more effective than others for people with chronic non-specific neck pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	16
Group-based pelvic floor muscle training for all women during pregnancy is more cost-effective than postnatal training for women with urinary incontinence: cost-effectiveness analysis of a systematic	15
Advice and education provide small short-term improvements in pain and disability in people with non-specific spinal pain: a systematic review	15
Intensive care unit clinicians identify many barriers to, and facilitators of, early mobilisation: a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework	15
Supervised, individualised exercise reduces fatigue and improves strength and quality of life more than unsupervised home exercise in people with chronic Guillain-Barré syndrome: a randomised trial	13
Physiotherapy management of Parkinson's disease	13
Clinimetrics: The Central Sensitisation Inventory: a useful screening tool for clinicians, but not the gold standard	13
Degree and pattern of dual-task interference during walking vary with component tasks in people after stroke: a systematic review	12
Innovative physiotherapy clinical education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a clinical research placement model	12
Statistical inference through estimation: recommendations from the International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors	12
Mobile app use to support therapeutic exercise for musculoskeletal pain conditions may help improve pain intensity and self-reported physical function: a systematic review	11
Photobiomodulation therapy does not decrease pain and disability in people with non-specific low back pain: a systematic review	11
Clinimetrics: The Scandinavian Stroke Scale	11
People with Parkinson's disease are more willing to do additional exercise if the exercise program has specific attributes: a discrete choice experiment	11
Dry cupping therapy is not superior to sham cupping to improve clinical outcomes in people with non-specific chronic low back pain: a randomised trial	11
An individualised self-management exercise and education program did not prevent recurrence of low back pain but may reduce care seeking: a randomised trial	11
Directed vertebral manipulation is not better than generic vertebral manipulation in patients with chronic low back pain: a randomised trial	10
Research Note: Thematic analysis in qualitative research	10
Twelve weeks of water-based circuit training exercise improves fitness, body fat and leg strength in people with stable coronary heart disease: a randomised trial	10
Adaptation, self-motivation and support services are key to physical activity participation three to five years after major trauma: a qualitative study	10
Injury prevention programs that include balance training exercises reduce ankle injury rates among soccer players: a systematic review	10
A consumer co-created infographic improves short-term knowledge about physical activity and self-efficacy to exercise in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomised trial	9
Clinimetrics: Modified Rankin Scale (mRS)	9
Clinimetrics: The Back Beliefs Questionnaire	9
Intradialytic neuromuscular electrical stimulation improves functional capacity and muscle strength in people receiving haemodialysis: a systematic review	9
Women report sustained benefits from attending group-based education about pelvic floor muscles: a longitudinal qualitative study	8
Prehabilitation sessions can be provided more frequently in a shortened regimen with similar or better efficacy in people with non-small cell lung cancer: a randomised trial	8
Physiotherapy management of Achilles tendinopathy	8
Clinimetrics: The EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D)	8
An international core capability framework for physiotherapists delivering telephone-based care	7
Cancer rehabilitation	7
Nature prescriptions for community and planetary health: unrealised potential to improve compliance and outcomes in physiotherapy	7
Resistance training leads to large improvements in strength and moderate improvements in physical function in adults who are overweight or obese: a systematic review	7
Clinimetrics: The Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire	7
Group-based exercise, individually supervised exercise and home-based exercise have similar clinical effects and cost-effectiveness in people with subacromial pain: a randomised trial	7
Clinimetrics: Neck Disability Index	7
Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guideline: 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis	7
Telephysiotherapy	7
Clinimetrics: World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0	7
Physiotherapy management of Down syndrome	6
Transcranial direct current stimulation provides no clinically important benefits over walking training for improving walking in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review	6
No prognostic model for people with recent-onset low back pain has yet been demonstrated to be suitable for use in clinical practice: a systematic review	6
Who should judge treatment effects as unimportant?	6
The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice tool provides informative assessments of clinical and professional dimensions of student performance in undergraduate placements: a longitudinal validity and r	6
A comprehensive exercise program improves foot alignment in people with flexible flat foot: a randomised trial	6
Injury prevention programs that include plyometric exercises reduce the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury: a systematic review of cluster randomised trials	6
The Transmural Trauma Care Model can be implemented well but some barriers and facilitators should be considered during implementation: a mixed methods study	5

Respiratory physiotherapy interventions focused on exercise training and enhancing physical activity levels in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are likely to be cost-effective: a syst	5
Repetitions and dose in stroke rehabilitation	5
The 6-minute stepper test and the sit-to-stand test predict complications after major pulmonary resection via minimally invasive surgery: a prospective inception cohort study	5
Bobath therapy is inferior to task-specific training and not superior to other interventions in improving arm activity and arm strength outcomes after stroke: a systematic review	5
Virtual hospitals: why we need them, how they work and what might come next	5
Stratified exercise therapy does not improve outcomes compared with usual exercise therapy in people with knee osteoarthritis (OCTOPuS study): a cluster randomised trial	5
Feeling reassured after a consultation does not reduce disability or healthcare use in people with acute low back pain: a mediation analysis of a randomised trial	5
Research Note: Causal inference	5
Normal gait speed varies by age and sex but not by geographical region: a systematic review	4
Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guideline: Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines for children and youth: An integration of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep	4
Physiotherapists can reduce overuse by Choosing Wisely	4
Diagnostic labels and advice for rotator cuff disease influence perceived need for shoulder surgery: an online randomised experiment	4
Knee osteoarthritis	4
Students achieve comparable performance scores for clinical placements in public and private sectors: a longitudinal observational study	4
Prevention of spinal pain	4
Intravaginal electrical stimulation increases voluntarily pelvic floor muscle contractions in women who are unable to voluntarily contract their pelvic floor muscles: a randomised trial	4
Pelvic floor muscle function differs between supine and standing positions in women with stress urinary incontinence: an experimental crossover study	3
Research Note: Estimating the complier average causal effect when participants in randomised trials depart from allocated treatment	3
Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guideline: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Practice Guideline for Osteoarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management	3
Some magnetic resonance imaging findings may predict future low back pain and disability: a systematic review	3
Chronic disease	3
The assessment of clinical competence of physiotherapists during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Are we giving stratified care a fair trial?	3
The role of the physiotherapist in treating survivors of sexual assault	3
Correspondence: Reward, but do not yet require, interval hypothesis tests	3
Physiotherapists vary in their knowledge of and approach to working with patients who are LGBTQIA+: a qualitative study	3
Home-based exercises are as effective as equivalent doses of centre-based exercises for improving walking speed and balance after stroke: a systematic review	3
Advanced practice physiotherapists can diagnose and triage patients with musculoskeletal disorders while providing effective care: a systematic review	3
Research Note: Single-case experimental designs	3
Education plus exercise for persistent gluteal tendinopathy improves quality of life and is cost-effective compared with corticosteroid injection and wait and see: economic evaluation of a randomised	3