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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contracting with sequential care providers	104
Governance and public health expenditure in Côte d'Ivoire: examination of the dynamic relationship	84
The healthcare costs of increased body mass index–evidence from The Trøndelag Health Study	81
The cost of implementing measles campaign in Nigeria: comparing the stand-alone and the integrated strategy	58
End-of-life expenditure on health care for the older population: a scoping review	40
Valuation of informal care for the old-aged with disabilities in China—a discrete choice experiment approach	33
A cost-effectiveness analysis comparing single-inhaler extrafine beclomethasone/formoterol/glycopyrronium bromide against other SITTs in adult patients with uncontrolled asthma in England	32
Building an integrated healthcare system of China: an assessment of coupling coordination between disease prevention, medical services, and healthcare financing from 2012 to 2021	31
Which factor reduces pharmaceutical expenditure, number of entrants or price variance? Updated generic drug markets in South Korea	31
Utilization of maternal health facilities and rural women’s well-being: towards the attainment of sustainable development goals	30
Does long-term care insurance promote assistive device utilization? Evidence from pilot regions in China	27
Evaluating the costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients: a systematic review	26
Which stage of pharmaceutical procurement is perceived to be most vulnerable to corruption in public tertiary hospitals in Enugu State, Nigeria?	26
Impact of diabetes diagnosis on dental care utilization: evidence from Finland	25
Understanding women’s preferences for long-acting reversible contraceptives in Gondar, Ethiopia: a discrete choice experiment	24
Behavioral responses of healthcare providers to prospective payment systems: a systematic review using the WHO framework (2000–2024)	22
Estimating the budget impact of a Tuberculosis strategic purchasing pilot study in Medan, Indonesia (2018–2019)	22
Economic evidence of alternative formulations and routes of administration for identical active pharmaceutical ingredient: a systematic review	21
Correction: Health state utility values for metastatic pancreatic cancer using a composite time trade-off based on the vignette-based approach in Japan	21
The economic impact of anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery	19
Health insurance coverage in Ethiopia: financial protection in the Era of sustainable development goals (SDGs)	19
Sustainable financing in Iran’s health system: a policy analysis of agenda-setting through Kingdon’s multiple streams framework	18
Policies and cost analyses of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws – a mapping review & analysis	18
Support by telestroke networks is associated with increased intravenous thrombolysis and reduced hospital transfers: A german claims data analysis	16
Prospective payment system transformation (2000–2024): temporal trends, payment architecture, and cross-national variation	15

Estimating the direct medical cost of illness of COVID-19 hospitalisations in Kuwait: efficiency trade-offs from real-world data analysis	15
Cost-effectiveness analysis of combination therapies involving novel agents for first/second-relapse patients with multiple myeloma: a Markov model approach with calibration techniques	15
Cost-utility analysis of valsartan, enalapril, and candesartan in patients with heart failure in Iran	15
Reducing breast cancer recurrences with CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment of HR-positive, HER2-negative early stage breast cancer from a societal perspective	14
Kidney transplant cases in US: study of determinants of variance in hospital charges and inpatient care	14
Cost effectiveness of imaging strategies in the emergency department for the diagnostic workup of community-acquired pneumonia: a real-life retrospective study	14
The cost of readmissions in hospitals: the case of the Spanish public hospitals	13
Subnational life expectancy disparities in low and middle-income countries: measurement and determinants	13
Catastrophic health expenditures: a disproportionate risk in uninsured ethnic minorities with diabetes	13
Impacts and lessons learned from coronavirus-19 pandemic in the United States: preparing for future public health emergencies	13
Cost-minimization analysis of postoperative antibiotic use in high horseshoe anal fistula: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in China	13
Robot-assisted approach versus open surgery and conventional laparoscopy for radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer: a micro-costing study	13
Health insurance coverages and demand for modern contraceptive choices among reproductive-age women in Thailand	13
Societal cost-of-illness analysis of self-injection of biologics for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Japan using claims, surveys, and national statistics	13
Challenges of AI for cost-effectiveness in health: a hybrid MCDM model	12
The economic costs of orthopaedic services: a health system cost analysis of tertiary hospitals in a low-income country	12
Health economic evaluation of an electronic mindfulness-based intervention (eMBI) to improve maternal mental health during pregnancy – a randomized controlled trial (RCT)	12
A framework for ex-ante evaluation of the potential effects of risk equalization and risk sharing in health insurance markets with regulated competition	12
Sustaining medical research – the role of trust and control	12
Cost–benefit analysis of pre-entry tuberculosis screening for incoming migrants to Japan: a focus on Nepalese migrants	11
Persistent inconsistencies in patient cost variability within the French DRG classification system over the 2012–2019 period	11
Rehabilitation in the long-term care insurance domain: a scoping review	11
Lorenz curves of urban and rural health care expenditure in Colombia: analysis of a cohort of 4.6 million patients	11
The economic burden of diabetes-related visual impairment and blindness in Saudi Arabia	11
A scoping review of COVID-19 economic response policies in the MENA countries: lessons learned for Iran for future pandemics	11
Understanding recent dynamics: prosperity and longevity in Ghana	11
Does targeted information impact consumers’ preferences for value-based health insurance? Evidence from a survey experiment	11
The temporal and spatial interpretation of China’s health financing: what do Chinese’ government ‘do’ in new healthcare reform?	11
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	10
Health economic analysis of organizational models for breast cancer surgery: a bottom-up micro-costing and cost-minimization approach	10
Research trends in contemporary health economics: a scientometric analysis on collective content of specialty journals	10
Beyond medical care: public health insurance, caloric intake, and labor productivity in rural China	10
Key indicators for evaluating Iran’s health insurance performance	10
The impact of hospital price and quality transparency tools on healthcare spending: a systematic review	10
NHS reference costs: a history and cautionary note	9
Historical origins of corruption in the Romanian public health system - path dependency and contagion effect	9
Difference in time and risk preferences: physicians and general population across genders	9
Cost-effectiveness analysis of parenteral iron therapy compared to oral iron supplements in managing iron deficiency anemia among pregnant women	9
Stated preferences in the Iranian health system: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments and conjoint analysis	8
The long-term cost-effectiveness of once-weekly semaglutide versus sitagliptin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in China	8
Heterogeneous impact of health insurance on children’s nutritional status: insights from Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression (IV-QR) approach	8
Impact of Tobacco Use and Prevention Laws on Regional Cigarette Sales: An Analysis of Provincial Disparities and Convergence Patterns in Spain	8
The economic effect of financial compensation in China’s healthcare system: comprehensive insights regarding supply and demand factors	8
A methodological analysis of systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer	8
Economic and health-related quality of life impacts of posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review	8
A decade of liver transplantation in Mongolia: Economic insights and cost analysis	8
The impact of annual price revision based on external reference pricing on medicines between 2012 and 2023	8
Correction: Direct and indirect savings from parallel imports in Sweden	8
Fragmentation of payment systems: an in-depth qualitative study of stakeholders’ experiences with the neonatal intensive care payment system in Iran	8
Measuring productivity in the healthcare sector: a bibliometric and content analysis	8

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	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	7
Health and economic gains from bariatric surgery in Portugal: an in-depth analysis using a Markov model	7
Health state utility values for metastatic pancreatic cancer using a composite time trade-off based on the vignette-based approach in Japan	7
Medical care cost dynamics during COVID-19 pandemic: financial implications for Japanese health insurance system	7
A comparison of measurement properties between EORTC QLU-C10D and FACT-8D in patients with hematological malignances	7
The heterogeneous association between education and the adoption of safe food handling practices in Ethiopia	7
Protecting healthcare workers? Effects of a multilevel intervention targeting emotional demands	7
Systematic review of health economic evaluation of robot-assisted hip and knee arthroplasty	7
Health economic evaluations of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis: a narrative review	7
Effects of housing demolition on health and medical utilization: evidence from China	7
Correction: A comparative study of bibliometric analysis on old adults’ cognitive impairment based on web of science and CNKI via CiteSpace	6
An econometric examination of vaccine hesitancy among residents and their dependents in urban Ghana	6
Does poverty increase COVID-19 in Africa? A cross-country analysis	6
Knowledge domain and emerging trends in multimorbidity and frailty research from 2003 to 2023: a scientometric study using citespace and VOSviewer	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
Impact of reimbursement systems on patient care – a systematic review of systematic reviews	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
Health-related quality of life in COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: a vignette study	6
Efficiency in COVID-19 inpatient care: findings from public hospitals in Iran	6
Cost-utility analysis of eptinezumab for migraine prevention in Taiwan	6
Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis	6
Forecasting emergency department arrivals using INGARCH models	6
A Hierarchical Bayesian approach to small area estimation of health insurance coverage in Ethiopian administrative zones for better policies and programs	6
Diabetes diagnosis based on glucose control levels and time until diagnosis: a regression discontinuity approach to assess the effect on direct healthcare costs	6
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	6
Wealth, health expenditure and cancer: an econometric analysis for European countries	6
Longitudinal trends and future projections of injury-related economic burden among middle-aged and older adults in China: analysis of CHARLS data 2011–2018	6
Supply-side factors influencing demand for facility-based delivery in Tanzania: a multilevel analysis	6
The role of Iran's context for the development of health technology assessment: challenges and solutions	6
The role of economic evaluation in public health emergency management of disease outbreaks in Africa: a qualitative research	5
Estimating the cost for obstetric fistula repair in hospitals of Mozambique: a low-income country	5
Impact of outpatient palliative care on healthcare costs in Germany – an analysis of cancer and non-cancer patients based on health insurance data	5
Securing Somalia’s health: leveraging sin tax revenues to drive universal health coverage and financial protection for lifesaving care in Somalia’s health system-scoping review	5
Long-term cost-effectiveness of quality of diabetes care; experiences from private and public diabetes centers in Iran	5
AI integration in energy management: enhancing efficiency in Italian hospitals	5
Negotiating pricing and payment terms for insurance covered mHealth apps: a qualitative content analysis and taxonomy development based on a German experience	5
Cost-utility analysis of three PD-1 inhibitors combined with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous carcinoma in China	5
Does public indebtedness matter in the effect of public health expenditure on human longevity in Sub-Saharan Africa countries? Evidence from dynamic panel threshold regression	5
Productivity costs of type 2 diabetes with or without co-occurring substance use disorder and depression	5
Physician agency in China: evidence from physicians’ responses to financial pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Health shocks and households’ vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria: a quasi-experimental analysis	5
Framing financial incentives to promote hypertension care among rural primary doctors in Shandong Province, China: study protocol of a randomized field trial	5
Systematic review of the economic evaluation model of assisted reproductive technology	5
Effect of retirement on medical reimbursement expenses—evidence from China	5
Cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analysis of disease-modifying drugs of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review	5