OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture	114
Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID	111
Proposed framework for unifying disease definitions in guideline development	91
Development of a generalised tool for evaluating success of clinical practice guidelines implementation (A-GIST)	70
Examining the layered health literacy demands in low-value care contexts	63
FDA’s dilemma with the aducanumab approval: public pressure and hope, surrogate markers and efficacy, and possible next steps	48
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	42
Decision architecture randomisation: extremely efficient clinical trials that preserve clinician and patient choice?	42
Measuring progress in institutionalising evidence-informed priority-setting in the Indian healthcare system: an application using the iProSE scale	41
How to best convey continuous outcomes in patient decision aids	38
Associations between device-measured and self-reported physical activity and common mental disorders: Findings from a large-scale prospective cohort study	35
Gender and geographical bias in the editorial decision-making process of biomedical journals: a case-control study	35
Global considerations for informed consent with shared decision-making in the digital age	32
Rapid reviews methods series: assessing the appropriateness of conducting a rapid review	31
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines	29
Patient-reported outcomes and acupuncture-related adverse events are overlooked in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study	28
Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice	27
Deceptive shifts in cancer stage distribution	24
Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online	24
Exploring the diverse definitions of ‘evidence’: a scoping review	23
Acupuncture for acute migraine attacks in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
iHealthFacts: a health fact-checking website for the public	21
Ambiguity in care delivery terminology: implications that affect pragmatic clinical trials using non-pharmacological interventions	21
Dynamic intervention strategies await inclusion in clinical evidence synthesis	21
Evidence-based medicine has already adapted and is very much alive	21

Assessing proposals to update established screening strategies	21
How to use the regulatory data from Health Canada for secondary analyses on new drugs, biologics and vaccines	20
An opportunity for evidence-based care of individuals with monkeypox	20
Is a one-size-fits-all ‘12-month rule’ appropriate when it comes to the last search date in systematic reviews?	19
Exploring adaptive health technology assessment for evaluating 10 cancer interventions: insights and lessons from a pilot study in India	16
Challenges in the selection and measurement of outcomes in psychiatric trials	16
Romanticised semiology	15
Evidence categories in systematic assessment of cancer overdiagnosis	15
Top 15 Choosing Wisely international campaign recommendations to reduce low-value care	14
Genetic predisposition, modifiable lifestyles, and their joint effects on human lifespan: evidence from multiple cohort studies	14
Catalogue of bias: novelty bias	14
Using a journal club to navigate a maze of COVID-19 papers in a front-line hospital service	13
Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method	13
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	12
Development of the Reporting Infographics and Visual Abstracts of Comparative studies (RIVA-C) checklist and guide	12
Survey of US physicians’ attitudes and knowledge of AI	12
Interventions for Menière’s disease: an umbrella systematic review	12
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on assessing the certainty of evidence	11
Effects of various exercise interventions in insomnia patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	11
Are we ready for AI-augmented generalists?	11
Piloting a new method to estimate action thresholds in medicine through intuitive weighing	11
Overcoming challenges in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in China	11
Direct-to-consumer advertising: a modifiable driver of overdiagnosis and overtreatment	11
Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial	10
Outcomes of the first national oral cancer screening programme in Taiwan, 2004–2022: a population-based study	10
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk	10
Perspectives of clinicians and screening candidates on shared decision-making in prostate cancer screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a qualitative study (PROSHADE study)	10
Time deficiency: an affliction of healthcare systems and how to ameliorate it	10
How to interpret studies using Mendelian randomisation	10
Clinical effect and contributing factors of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and pairwise and exploratory network meta-analysis	10
De-escalation of dual antiplatelet therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome after percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	10
Enhancing the transparency of clinical practice guidelines by prospective registration: the PREPARE platform	10
Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases	10
Correspondence on “How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID” by Høeget al	10
Perspectives on the production, and use, of rapid evidence in decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	9
Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users	9
Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study	9
Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis	9
Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data	9
Understanding synthetic data: artificial datasets for real-world evidence	8
Component network meta-analysis in a nutshell	8
Best way not to misuse p values is not to draw definitive conclusions about hypotheses	8
Strengthening transparency in randomised trials related to multimorbidity: key points and recommendations to guide reporting	8
Unknowns of drug company payment disclosure: why the UK needs payment transparency legislation	8
Reporting and methodological quality of studies that use Mendelian randomisation in UK Biobank: a meta-epidemiological study	8
Using absolute risk reduction to guide the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	8
How to promote the application of reporting guidelines in acupuncture research	8
Responsible dissemination of health and medical research: some guidance points	8
Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters	8
AI in healthcare: an introduction for clinicians	7

Revisiting the value of Archie Cochrane’s contributions	7
Preventable deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in England and Wales: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Role of overdiagnosis in the rising incidence of endometrial cancer: a population-based ecological study	7
Preventing overdiagnosis and overuse: proposed guidance for guideline panels	7
Retrieval barriers in individual participant data reviews with network meta-analysis	7