OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Health is 39. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Screen time, phone usage, and social media usage: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	314
Systematic review of digital health interventions to support self-management of low back pain in the workplace	210
A scoping review of trauma-informed care principles applied in design and technology	167
‘Better see a doctor?’ Status quo of symptom checker apps in Germany: A cross-sectional survey with a mixed-methods design (CHECK.APP)	145
Exploring how health-related advertising interference contributes to the development of cyberchondria: A stressor–strain–outcome approach	117
Influence of social and psychological factors on smartphone usage during the COVID-19 pandemic	114
Mental health provider and youth service users’ perspectives regarding implementation of a digital mental health platform for youth: A survey study	112
Assessing technology usage in relation to the quality of life of autistic children	99
Patients and healthcare practitioners’ perspective on the development of a digital interprofessional intervention for COPD	84
Digital tools and self-administered home blood tests: A convergent mixed methods pilot study	78
Usability assessment of a digital tool to enhance person–clinician communication in the memory clinic: An expert evaluation	76
The top 100 most-cited articles on large language models in medicine: A bibliometric analysis	74
Factors affecting the acceptance of teledentistry determined using the technology acceptance model: A cross-sectional study	72
A qualitative study exploring physiotherapists’ insights on the design and development of technology-enhanced gait and balance assessment systems for older adults	70
Knowledge mapping of artificial intelligence in prosthodontics during 1995–2024: A bibliometric analysis	65
Measuring resting heart rate during daily life using wearable technology: Examining the impact of behavioral context and methodological criteria	62
Unveiling 30 years of research on speech biomarker of dementia using text mining	59
Mobile health applications for supporting self-management of oral systemic anticancer therapy in haematological malignancies: A systematic review of acceptability and efficacy	53
An artificially intelligent, natural language processing chatbot designed to promote COVID-19 vaccination: A proof-of-concept pilot study	52
Knowledge and awareness of dental trauma and the ToothSOS mobile application among medical, nursing, and pharmacy students in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study	51
Investigating information needs and preferences regarding digital mental health services among medical and psychology students in Germany: A qualitative study	49
Facilitators and barriers to health information-seeking behavior in cancer patients: A meta-synthesis	48
Assessing the physiological effect of non-driving-related task performance in conditionally automated driving systems: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol	48
The digital front door: How online appointment systems build hospital image and activate patient value co-creation	47
Dual-stage pulmonary nodule detection in CT scans via cross-layer attention and adaptive multi-scale 3D CNN	47

Transitioning of the maternal and newborn health surveillance online digital health (MATSurvey) platform from a research institution to the government DHIS2 tracker	46
DepGLM: Depression degree recognition on social media based on large language models	46
Information security and confidentiality in health chatbots: A scoping review and development of a conceptual model	46
Early prediction of low birth weight using boosting ensemble machine learning: A retrospective cohort study	45
Impact of digital health interventions on medication adherence: A systematic review and meta-analysis	45
Design and implementation of virtual reality-based cognitive training programmes for patients with mild cognitive impairment: Development study	44
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	44
Evaluation of reporting trends in the MAUDE Database: 1991 to 2022	42
Predicting the employment of teledentistry in clinical practice by the Saudi dental community using a theoretical model	41
Changes in patient perceptions regarding ChatGPT-written explanations on lifestyle modifications for preventing urolithiasis recurrence	40
Virtual reality interventions designed to support parents during and throughout the first year after birth: A scoping review	40
Israel's first national remote cardiac rehabilitation program: A retrospective analysis	40
Handling of outcome missing data dependent on measured or unmeasured background factors in micro-randomized trial: Simulation and application study	40
‘My words become my hands’: Yoga instructors’ experiences of adapting teleyoga in the SAGE fall prevention trial—A qualitative analysis	39
Perceptions of a machine learning-based lower-limb exercise training system among older adults with knee pain	39