OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Open Respiratory Research is 24. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Genomic testing for children with interstitial and diffuse lung disease (chILD): parent satisfaction, understanding and health-related quality of life	74
Evaluation of the Norwegian version of the Dyspnoea-12 questionnaire in patients with COPD	72
Malignant pleural mesothelioma patients’ experience by gender: findings from a cross-sectional UK-national questionnaire	68
Bagasse dust exposure and chronic respiratory symptoms among workers in the Metehara and Wonji sugar factories in Ethiopia: a longitudinal study design	61
Methamphetamine-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: data from the national biological sample and data repository for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH Biobank)	56
Association between birth weight and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the UK Biobank: a prospective cohort study	54
Extracorporeal CO₂removal in acute exacerbation of COPD unresponsive to non-invasive ventilation	46
Specialist pneumonia intervention nurse service improves pneumonia care and outcome	39
Differences in risk indicators associated with electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking among adolescents and young people in Nigeria	38
Effect of a home-based inspiratory muscle training programme on functional capacity in postdischarged patients with long COVID: the InsCOVID trial	37
Protection conferred by SARS-CoV-2 infection across a spectrum of reinfection symptoms and severities	34
Differences in uni-dimensional breathlessness measures and thresholds for clinical response in a randomised controlled trial in people with chronic breathlessness: an exploratory study	33
COVID-19 is associated with distinct myopathic features in the diaphragm of critically ill patients	32
Comparison of the efficacy of novel two covering methods for spontaneous pneumothorax: a multi-institutional study	32
Comparing the impact of targeting limited driving pressure to low tidal volume ventilation on mortality in mechanically ventilated adults with COVID-19 ARDS: an exploratory target trial emulation	29
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a risk factor for non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: a population-based matched cohort study	29
Characterisation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease initiating single-device inhaled corticosteroids/long-acting β₂-agonist dual therapy in a primary care setting in Eng	28
Defining hypoxaemia from pulse oximeter measurements of oxygen saturation in well children at low altitude in Bangladesh: an observational study	27
Association of high-sensitivity CRP and FEV1%pred: a study on non-pulmonary disease in a population in Beijing, China	26
Withdrawal of inhaled corticosteroids from patients with COPD with mild or moderate airflow limitation in primary care: a feasibility randomised trial	26
Hospital-level variation in practices and outcomes for patients with severe acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study	26
Therapeutic effects of fatty acid binding protein 1 in mice with pulmonary fibrosis by regulating alveolar epithelial regeneration	25
Temperature synchronisation of circadian rhythms in primary human airway epithelial cells from children	25
Contribution of collagen XIII to lung function and development of pulmonary fibrosis	24
What if… your research is suddenly affiliated with a tobacco manufacturing company?	24