OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is 29. 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
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	145
Community drug retail outlet staff’s knowledge, attitudes and practices towards non-prescription antibiotics use and antibiotic resistance in the Amhara region, Ethiopia with a focus on non-urban town	126
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	96
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	92
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	80
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	77
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	72
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	58
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	56
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	43
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	43
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	41
Development of a strain-specific PCR as a diagnostic tool for surveillance, detection, and monitoring of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during outbreak	41
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus risk factors for hospital colonization in hematological patients: a matched case-control study	40
Empiric antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit based on the risk of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection: a single-centre case‒control study of blood culture results in Japan	39
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	37
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	36
Sequence type 17 is a predictor of subsequent bacteremia in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium-colonized patients: a retrospective cohort study	35
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	35
Animal source food eating habits of outpatients with antimicrobial resistance in Bukavu, D.R. Congo	35
SARS-CoV-2 risk in household contacts of healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study	32
Efficacy and safety of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection by inhibiting catheter bacterial biofilm formation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	32
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	31
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	31
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	31

Routes of transmission of VIM-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the adult intensive care unit-analysis of 9 years of surveillance at a university hospital using a mathematical model	30
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	30
Investigation of possible transmission of a susceptible microorganism through a contaminated duodenoscope; a case report	30
Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	30
Exploring drivers of self-treatment with antibiotics in three agricultural communities of northern Tanzania	29
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	29
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	29
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	29
Trends in prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolated from patients with community- and healthcare-associated bacteriuria: results from 2014 to 2020 in an urban	29