OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Global Health is 52. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries	721
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data	445
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region	358
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study	268
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long	234
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health	214
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union	204
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem	202
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population	187
A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low- and middle-income se	174
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response	147
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal	138
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia	138
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context	130
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman	128
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis	127
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis	124
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos	115
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals	105
Creating health by building peace	104
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review	103
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia	102
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial	101
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana	98
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health	95

Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study	94
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review	89
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling	77
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it	73
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review	72
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories	71
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact	71
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse	68
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China	67
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India	67
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health	67
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support	67
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care	66
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries	65
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study	65
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy	64
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership	62
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum	61
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	60
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic	59
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic	59
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management	59
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax	58
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa	57
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services	56
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review	53
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China	52
Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries	52