OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Economics Review is 5. 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
Which factor reduces pharmaceutical expenditure, number of entrants or price variance? Updated generic drug markets in South Korea	94
The cost of implementing measles campaign in Nigeria: comparing the stand-alone and the integrated strategy	85
The healthcare costs of increased body mass index–evidence from The Trøndelag Health Study	49
Contracting with sequential care providers	41
Evaluating a capacity development intervention in health economics among producers and users of evidence in Nigeria: a case study in Getting Research Into Policy and Practice (GRIPP) in Anambra State	38
Using point-of-care diagnostic testing for improved antibiotic prescription: an economic model	37
Building an integrated healthcare system of China: an assessment of coupling coordination between disease prevention, medical services, and healthcare financing from 2012 to 2021	29
Utilization of maternal health facilities and rural women’s well-being: towards the attainment of sustainable development goals	28
Evaluating the costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients: a systematic review	27
End-of-life expenditure on health care for the older population: a scoping review	27
The economic impact of anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery	23
Impact of diabetes diagnosis on dental care utilization: evidence from Finland	19
Estimating the budget impact of a Tuberculosis strategic purchasing pilot study in Medan, Indonesia (2018–2019)	18
Distributed education enables distributed economic impact: the economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to communities in Canada	17
Policies and cost analyses of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws – a mapping review & analysis	17
Correction: Health state utility values for metastatic pancreatic cancer using a composite time trade-off based on the vignette-based approach in Japan	16
Health insurance coverage in Ethiopia: financial protection in the Era of sustainable development goals (SDGs)	16
Kidney transplant cases in US: study of determinants of variance in hospital charges and inpatient care	15
Support by telestroke networks is associated with increased intravenous thrombolysis and reduced hospital transfers: A german claims data analysis	15
Adjuvant treatment of high-risk melanoma – cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment options for BRAF 600 mutated tumors	15
Analytical methods to assess the impacts of activity-based funding (ABF): a scoping review	14
A framework for ex-ante evaluation of the potential effects of risk equalization and risk sharing in health insurance markets with regulated competition	14
Catastrophic health expenditures: a disproportionate risk in uninsured ethnic minorities with diabetes	14
Cost-utility analysis of valsartan, enalapril, and candesartan in patients with heart failure in Iran	14
Endogenous health risks, poverty traps, and the roles of health insurance in poverty alleviation	14

The cost of readmissions in hospitals: the case of the Spanish public hospitals	14
Cost-effectiveness analysis of combination therapies involving novel agents for first/second-relapse patients with multiple myeloma: a Markov model approach with calibration techniques	14
Sustaining medical research – the role of trust and control	13
The economic costs of orthopaedic services: a health system cost analysis of tertiary hospitals in a low-income country	13
An equity analysis on the household costs of accessing and utilising maternal and child health care services in Tanzania	12
Health system efficiency in OECD countries: dynamic network DEA approach	12
Health economic evaluation of an electronic mindfulness-based intervention (eMBI) to improve maternal mental health during pregnancy – a randomized controlled trial (RCT)	12
Does targeted information impact consumers’ preferences for value-based health insurance? Evidence from a survey experiment	11
Historical origins of corruption in the Romanian public health system - path dependency and contagion effect	11
Research trends in contemporary health economics: a scientometric analysis on collective content of specialty journals	11
Financial balance of home nursing care providers in the Czech Republic	11
The temporal and spatial interpretation of China’s health financing: what do Chinese’ government ‘do’ in new healthcare reform?	10
Rehabilitation in the long-term care insurance domain: a scoping review	10
A scoping review of COVID-19 economic response policies in the MENA countries: lessons learned for Iran for future pandemics	10
NHS reference costs: a history and cautionary note	9
Cost-effectiveness of expanding the target population of biennial screening for breast cancer from ages 50–69 to 45 and/or 74: A cohort modelling study in the Finnish setting	9
Cost-effectiveness analysis of parenteral iron therapy compared to oral iron supplements in managing iron deficiency anemia among pregnant women	9
Correction: Direct and indirect savings from parallel imports in Sweden	9
The impact of hospital price and quality transparency tools on healthcare spending: a systematic review	9
Fragmentation of payment systems: an in-depth qualitative study of stakeholders’ experiences with the neonatal intensive care payment system in Iran	8
Quality of public health insurance and individuals’ consumption structure upgrades: evidence from China	8
A decade of liver transplantation in Mongolia: Economic insights and cost analysis	8
The long-term cost-effectiveness of once-weekly semaglutide versus sitagliptin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in China	8
Measuring productivity in the healthcare sector: a bibliometric and content analysis	8
The heterogeneous association between education and the adoption of safe food handling practices in Ethiopia	8
The addition of neoadjuvant pertuzumab for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer: a cost estimate with real-world data	8
Cost of peer mystery shopping to increase cultural competency in community clinics offering HIV/STI testing to young men who have sex with men: results from the get connected trial	8
Supply-side factors influencing demand for facility-based delivery in Tanzania: a multilevel analysis	7
A comparison of measurement properties between EORTC QLU-C10D and FACT-8D in patients with hematological malignances	7
Forecasting emergency department arrivals using INGARCH models	7
The economic effect of financial compensation in China’s healthcare system: comprehensive insights regarding supply and demand factors	7
Cost-utility analysis of Palbociclib + letrozole and ribociclib + letrozole versus Letrozole monotherapy in the first-line treatment of metastatic breast cancer in Iran using partitioned survival mode	7
Diabetes diagnosis based on glucose control levels and time until diagnosis: a regression discontinuity approach to assess the effect on direct healthcare costs	7
Effect of COVID-19 on demand for healthcare in Togo	7
Correction: A comparative study of bibliometric analysis on old adults’ cognitive impairment based on web of science and CNKI via CiteSpace	6
The level of countries’ preparedness to health risks during Covid-19 and pre-pandemic: the differential response to health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators	6
Correction: Cost-effectiveness analysis of sintilimab plus pemetrexed and platinum versus chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment in metastatic non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer in China	6
Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis	6
Health state utility values for metastatic pancreatic cancer using a composite time trade-off based on the vignette-based approach in Japan	6
How innovation can be defined, evaluated and rewarded in health technology assessment	5
Impact of reimbursement systems on patient care – a systematic review of systematic reviews	5
Economic impact of powered stapler in video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung Cancer in a Chinese tertiary hospital: a cost-minimization analysis	5
The impact of multidimensional poverty on antenatal care service utilisation in Malawi	5
Estimating the cost for obstetric fistula repair in hospitals of Mozambique: a low-income country	5
Hospital unit costs in Jordan: insights from a country facing competing health demands and striving for universal health coverage	5
The role of Iran's context for the development of health technology assessment: challenges and solutions	5
Does poverty increase COVID-19 in Africa? A cross-country analysis	5
What can we learn about the impact of cancelled planned operations on waiting times? A case study using the 2017/18 winter flu postponement policy in England	5
Long-term cost-effectiveness of quality of diabetes care; experiences from private and public diabetes centers in Iran	5
Framing financial incentives to promote hypertension care among rural primary doctors in Shandong Province, China: study protocol of a randomized field trial	5

Negotiating pricing and payment terms for insurance covered mHealth apps: a qualitative content analysis and taxonomy development based on a German experience	5
A Hierarchical Bayesian approach to small area estimation of health insurance coverage in Ethiopian administrative zones for better policies and programs	5
How much do government and households spend on an episode of hospitalisation in India? A comparison for public and private hospitals in Chhattisgarh state	5
Knowledge domain and emerging trends in multimorbidity and frailty research from 2003 to 2023: a scientometric study using citespace and VOSviewer	5
Systematic review of the economic evaluation model of assisted reproductive technology	5
Innovative and conventional “conservative” technologies for the treatment of uterine fibroids in Italy: a multidimensional assessment	5