OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Public Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling Study	322
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Data Set of Antivaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation, and Conspiracies	190
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Individuals With Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases, or Other Serious Comorbid Conditions: Cross-sectional, Internet-Based Survey	97
Drivers of Acceptance of COVID-19 Proximity Tracing Apps in Switzerland: Panel Survey Analysis	85
Telehealth Demand Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Top 50 Most Affected Countries: Infodemiological Evaluation	77
Promoting Mask Use on TikTok: Descriptive, Cross-sectional Study	64
Concerns and Misconceptions About the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe App: Cross-Sectional Survey Study	64
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Uptake of Influenza Vaccine: UK-Wide Observational Study	60
Comparing News Articles and Tweets About COVID-19 in Brazil: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling Approach	59
The Association Between Chronic Disease and Serious COVID-19 Outcomes and Its Influence on Risk Perception: Survey Study and Database Analysis	58
“Thought I’d Share First” and Other Conspiracy Theory Tweets from the COVID-19 Infodemic: Exploratory Study	56
Projections of Lung Cancer Incidence by 2035 in 40 Countries Worldwide: Population-Based Study	54
The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review	53
Methods for Social Media Monitoring Related to Vaccination: Systematic Scoping Review	53
Public Discourse Against Masks in the COVID-19 Era: Infodemiology Study of Twitter Data	51
Global Pattern and Trends in Penile Cancer Incidence: Population-Based Study	50
Characterizing the COVID-19 Infodemic on Chinese Social Media: Exploratory Study	49
COVID-19 and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Communities: A Complex Relationship Without Just Cause	46
Has Omicron Changed the Evolution of the Pandemic?	46
Defining Digital Public Health and the Role of Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation: Scoping Review	45
Changes in Workers’ Sedentary and Physical Activity Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Relationships With Fatigue: Longitudinal Online Study	45
Association Between Joint Physical Activity and Dietary Quality and Lower Risk of Depression Symptoms in US Adults: Cross-sectional NHANES Study	42
COVID-19 Surveillance in a Primary Care Sentinel Network: In-Pandemic Development of an Application Ontology	41
Digitization and Health in Germany: Cross-sectional Nationwide Survey	40
The Reliability and Quality of YouTube Videos as a Source of Public Health Information Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination: Cross-sectional Study	39

The Use of Digital Tools to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Retrospective Study of Six Countries	38
Assessing COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Effectiveness Through the North West London Vaccination Program: Retrospective Cohort Study	37
Willingness to Receive COVID-19 Vaccination Among People Living With HIV and AIDS in China: Nationwide Cross-sectional Online Survey	36
Young Adults’ Perspectives on the Use of Symptom Checkers for Self-Triage and Self-Diagnosis: Qualitative Study	35
Anxiety and Sleep Disturbances Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Cross-Sectional Online Survey	35
Characterizing Weibo Social Media Posts From Wuhan, China During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Content Analysis	34
Demographic Factors Influencing the Impact of Coronavirus-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp: Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study	34
Multilevel Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among South Asian Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Cross-sectional Web-Based Survey	34
How Health Care Workers Wield Influence Through Twitter Hashtags: Retrospective Cross-sectional Study of the Gun Violence and COVID-19 Public Health Crises	33
Availability, Formulation, Labeling, and Price of Low-sodium Salt Worldwide: Environmental Scan	33
Examining the Utility of Social Media in COVID-19 Vaccination: Unsupervised Learning of 672,133 Twitter Posts	33
COVID-19 Vaccine–Related Attitudes and Beliefs in Canada: National Cross-sectional Survey and Cluster Analysis	33