OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Diagnostics is 63. 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
Sialoglyco-Conjugate Abnormalities, IL-6 Trans-Signaling and Anti-Ganglioside Immune Response—Potential Interferences in Lupus Nephritis Pathogenesis	258
The Applications of 3D Imaging and Indocyanine Green Dye Fluorescence in Laparoscopic Liver Surgery	237
Imaging Modalities Employed in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: A Review and Meta-Analysis	210
Comparison of Two X-ray Analyses for Estimating the Prognosis of Eruption of Impacted Mandibular Third Molars	179
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Steps Towards Consensus	177
Caspase 9 and Caspase 3 Immunohistochemical Pattern in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles at Different Times after Death: An Experimental Study on PMI Estimation	173
Updated Incidence of Thyroid Cancer in the North East Region of Romania after 35 Years of Chernobyl Fallout. Is There a Link between?	160
Pitfalls in Ultrasound Diagnosis of Vascular Malformations: A Retrospective Review of 14 Nonvascular Tumors Treated as Vascular Malformations	144
The Frequency of Risk Factors for Cleft Lip and Palate in Mexico: A Systematic Review	127
Smartphone-Enabled Personalized Diagnostics: Current Status and Future Prospects	120
Role of C-Reactive Protein in Discrimination between Transudative and Exudative Pleural Effusions	114
Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography Oncological Applications beyond Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Other Radiopharmaceuticals	112
Gender Difference in Orthostatic Vascular Stiffness Increase in Young Subjects	111
Preventing Recurrent Otitis Media in Children Aged 2–7 Years: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Serum Vitamin D as a Modifiable Factor	109
Hybrid Fusion of High-Resolution and Ultra-Widefield OCTA Acquisitions for the Automatic Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy	105
Early Alterations in De Novo Parkinson’s Disease Revealed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Preliminary Study	102
The Development of Systemic Inflammatory Diseases in Hidradenitis Suppurativa	101
Evaluation of Respiratory Conditions in Individuals Undergoing Rapid Maxillary Expansion: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study	97
Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in WNT Genes in Patients with Non-Syndromic Orofacial Clefts in a Polish Population	97
Diagnosis and Management of Scalp Metastases: A Review	94
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Myocardial Strain Assessment Correlates with Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Pectus Excavatum	93
Assessment of UTI Diagnostic Techniques Using the Fuzzy–PROMETHEE Model	92
Artery-to-Fistula Diameter Ratio as a Predictor of Early Re-Occlusion of Immature Right Radio-Cephalic Arteriovenous Fistula after Primary PTA	90
Optics and Utility of Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Portable Digital Fundus Camera System for Screening of Retinal Diseases	89
Potential Value of Visfatin, Omentin-1, Nesfatin-1 and Apelin in Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	88

Biomechanical Efficacy of Three Methods for the Fixation of Posterior Malleolar Fractures: A Three-Dimensional Finite Element Study	87
Feasibility of Optical Genome Mapping from Placental and Umbilical Cord Sampled after Spontaneous or Therapeutic Pregnancy Termination	85
Primary Chronic Sclerosing Osteomyelitis: A New Diagnostic Tool	84
Short-Term Thermal Effect of Continuous Ultrasound from 3 MHz to 1 and 0.5 W/cm2 Applied to Gastrocnemius Muscle	84
Cathepsin S Upregulation Measured in the Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Prior to Surgery Points to Postoperative Pain Development in Patients with Hip Osteoarthritis	83
Diagnosis of an Acute Anterior Wall Infarction in Dual-Energy CT	83
Understanding the Dynamics of Human Papillomavirus and Diagnostic Discrepancies in Cervical Pathology: A Single Center Experience	82
Multi-Contrast Differentiation by Dual-Energy Spectral CT Angiography in a Patient with Pulmonary Barium Granulomas	80
Former SARS-CoV-2 Infection Was Related to Decreased VO2 Peak and Exercise Hypertension in Athletes	77
Impact of Voxel Normalization on a Machine Learning-Based Method: A Study on Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Diagnosis Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT)	76
The Role of Positron Emission Tomography in Advancing the Understanding of the Pathogenesis of Heart and Vascular Diseases	76
Molecular Characterization by Whole-Genome Sequencing of Clinical and Environmental Serratia marcescens Strains Isolated during an Outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)	76
Shoulder Magnetic Resonance Arthrography with the Internal and External Rotation Positions of the Humeral Head in the Evaluation of SLAP Lesions	76
Conventional Ameloblastoma. A Case Report with Microarray and Bioinformatic Analysis	75
Diagnostic Accuracy of ki-67 Labeling Index in Endoscopic Ultrasonography-Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology and Biopsy of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms	74
A Rapid, Simple, Trace, Cost-Effective, and High-Throughput Stable Isotope-Dilution Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for Serum Methylmalonic Acid Quantification and Its Clinical A	73
Ultrasound and Clinical Alterations in the Foot of Children with Obesity and Diabetes	72
Deep-Learning-Based Image Denoising in Imaging of Urolithiasis: Assessment of Image Quality and Comparison to State-of-the-Art Iterative Reconstructions	72
DCDC2-Related Ciliopathy: Report of Six Polish Patients, Novel DCDC2 Variant, and Literature Review of Reported Cases	71
Identification of Autoantibodies to a Hybrid Insulin Peptide in Type 1 Diabetes	71
A Neoteric Feature Extraction Technique to Predict the Survival of Gastric Cancer Patients	70
A Web-Based Platform for the Automatic Stratification of ARDS Severity	69
Liver Stiffness Is Associated with the Burden of Carotid and Systemic Atherosclerosis in an Unorganized Cohort of Patients 40–64 Years Old	69
Enhancing Annotation Efficiency with Machine Learning: Automated Partitioning of a Lung Ultrasound Dataset by View	69
Human versus Artificial Intelligence: Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Retinal Layer and Fluid Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography Images from Patients with Age-Related Macular Degener	69
CD47 Expression Predicts Unfavorable Prognosis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma after Curative Resection	69
Scan Aided Dental Arch Width Prediction via Internationally Recognized Formulas and Indices in a Sample of Kurdish Population/Iraq	68
Contrast-Enhanced Harmonic Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Puncture for the Patients with Pancreatic Masses	67
Ultrasound-Guided Pleural Effusion Drainage: Effect on Oxygenation, Respiratory Mechanics, and Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Surgical Intensive Care Unit Patients	67
The Association between Specimen Neuromuscular Characteristics and Urinary Incontinence after Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy	67
Evaluation of the Determination of Dabigatran, Rivaroxaban, and Apixaban in Lupus Anticoagulant-Positive Patients	66
Detection of 2-Hydroxyglutarate by 3.0-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Gliomas with Rare IDH Mutations: Making Sense of “False-Positive” Cases	66
Combining FORGE Score and Histopathological Diagnostic Criteria of Atypical Meningioma Enables Risk Stratification of Tumor Progression	66
HHV8-Positive Castleman Disease and In Situ Mantle Cell Neoplasia within Dermatopathic Lymphadenitis, in Longstanding Psoriasis	66
NCR, an Inflammation and Nutrition Related Blood-Based Marker in Colon Cancer Patients: A New Promising Biomarker to Predict Outcome	65
Prediction of the Presence of Targetable Molecular Alteration(s) with Clinico-Metabolic 18 F-FDG PET Radiomics in Non-Asian Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients	65
Differentiation of Salivary Gland and Salivary Gland Tumor Tissue via Raman Imaging Combined with Multivariate Data Analysis	64
Microwave Near-Field Dynamical Tomography of Thorax at Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Activity	63
Small Biopsy Samples: Are They Representative for Biphenotypic Sinonasal Sarcoma?	63
The Value of Ultrasonic Elastography in Detecting Placental Stiffness for the Diagnosis of Preeclampsia: A Meta-Analysis	63
Complications Arising from Dental Trauma Incurred from Falls Involving Geriatric Patients: A Case Report	63
Analytical Validation of Esopredict, an Epigenetic Prognostic Assay for Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus	63
Generation and Validation of Normative, Age-Specific Reference Curves for Bone Strain Index in Women	63