OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Health is 42. 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
Screen time, phone usage, and social media usage: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	345
Influence of social and psychological factors on smartphone usage during the COVID-19 pandemic	226
Mental health provider and youth service users’ perspectives regarding implementation of a digital mental health platform for youth: A survey study	181
Assessing technology usage in relation to the quality of life of autistic children	156
Patients and healthcare practitioners’ perspective on the development of a digital interprofessional intervention for COPD	140
Digital tools and self-administered home blood tests: A convergent mixed methods pilot study	123
Usability assessment of a digital tool to enhance person–clinician communication in the memory clinic: An expert evaluation	115
The top 100 most-cited articles on large language models in medicine: A bibliometric analysis	104
A qualitative study exploring physiotherapists’ insights on the design and development of technology-enhanced gait and balance assessment systems for older adults	89
Knowledge mapping of artificial intelligence in prosthodontics during 1995–2024: A bibliometric analysis	86
An artificially intelligent, natural language processing chatbot designed to promote COVID-19 vaccination: A proof-of-concept pilot study	84
Knowledge and awareness of dental trauma and the ToothSOS mobile application among medical, nursing, and pharmacy students in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study	82
Investigating information needs and preferences regarding digital mental health services among medical and psychology students in Germany: A qualitative study	80
Facilitators and barriers to health information-seeking behavior in cancer patients: A meta-synthesis	80
Dual-stage pulmonary nodule detection in CT scans via cross-layer attention and adaptive multi-scale 3D CNN	77
The digital front door: How online appointment systems build hospital image and activate patient value co-creation	77
Transitioning of the maternal and newborn health surveillance online digital health (MATSurvey) platform from a research institution to the government DHIS2 tracker	70
Early prediction of low birth weight using boosting ensemble machine learning: A retrospective cohort study	67
Design and implementation of virtual reality-based cognitive training programmes for patients with mild cognitive impairment: Development study	59
Development of a multi-label deep neural network model for predicting immediate paravalvular leakage and new-onset conduction disturbances after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A retrospective	58
Predicting the employment of teledentistry in clinical practice by the Saudi dental community using a theoretical model	56
Virtual reality interventions designed to support parents during and throughout the first year after birth: A scoping review	55
Handling of outcome missing data dependent on measured or unmeasured background factors in micro-randomized trial: Simulation and application study	55
Changes in patient perceptions regarding ChatGPT-written explanations on lifestyle modifications for preventing urolithiasis recurrence	54
Machine-learning–based risk assessment of hypertension among older adults in Korea	53

‘My words become my hands’: Yoga instructors’ experiences of adapting teleyoga in the SAGE fall prevention trial—A qualitative analysis	53
Israel's first national remote cardiac rehabilitation program: A retrospective analysis	53
Evaluating the quality, reliability, and diagnostic risk of ADHD content on TikTok and Bilibili: A cross-sectional content analysis	51
Comparative evaluation of ChatGPT-5.0, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini-2.5 pro in real-world outpatient prescription counseling: A multidimensional analysis	51
Research hotspots and trends of artificial intelligence ethics in medicine: A bibliometric analysis from 1999 to 2025	51
Machine learning based prediction of popliteal crease obliquity angle from step-down kinematics and its application in early osteoarthritis classification	49
Wearables are a viable digital health tool for older Indigenous adults living remotely in Australia (research)	48
Feasibility and acceptability of a dengue self-monitoring system to reduce treatment delay in Malaysia: A single-centre pilot randomised controlled trial	47
Feasibility of a noninvasive heart failure telemonitoring system: A mixed methods study	46
Digital mental health intervention for schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders: Protocol for a pragmatic feasibility study of Horyzons-Canada	46
Telemedicine in civil protection: A controlled simulation study for the analysis of patient care	46
The impact of limited access to digital health records on doctors and their willingness to adopt electronic health record systems	46
Feasibility and acceptability of a novel digital therapeutic combining behavioral and pharmacological treatment for opioid use disorder	44
Assessing patient confidence in telehealth: Comparing across 17 medical specialties	43
Interactive decision aid on therapy decision making for patients with chronic kidney disease: A prospective exploratory pilot study	43
Machine learning for clustering and classification of early knee osteoarthritis using single-leg standing kinematics	42
How digital therapeutic alliances influence the perceived helpfulness of online mental health Q&A: An explainable machine learning approach	42
A gamified metaverse platform (Mammoverse) for breast health education: A mixed-methods study	42