OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination is associated with lower mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Brazil	90
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as proof of treatment efficacy	64
Framework for the synthesis of non-randomised studies and randomised controlled trials: a guidance on conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis for healthcare decision making	55
Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent	53
Summarising good practice guidelines for data extraction for systematic reviews and meta-analysis	47
Estimates of the minimal important difference to evaluate the clinical significance of antidepressants in the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depression	38
Shared decision-making as a method of care	35
Using Risk of Bias 2 to assess results from randomised controlled trials: guidance from Cochrane	34
Characteristics, quality and volume of the first 5 months of the COVID-19 evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study	34
Misleading clinical evidence and systematic reviews on ivermectin for COVID-19	33
Transparency of COVID-19 vaccine trials: decisions without data	31
Good or best practice statements: proposal for the operationalisation and implementation of GRADE guidance	30
Factors influencing estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in non-randomised studies	29
Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis	29
Making care fit manifesto	28
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search	27
The limits of shared decision making	26
Understanding of research results, evidence summaries and their applicability—not critical appraisal—are core skills of medical curriculum	24
How to create PICO questions about diagnostic tests	23
Diagnostic accuracy of rapid point-of-care tests for diagnosis of current SARS-CoV-2 infections in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	20
Data-dredging bias	19
Using individual participant data to improve network meta-analysis projects	19
Replacing PICO in non-interventional studies	18
Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online	18

Risperidone and aripiprazole for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews	17
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID	17
Alcohol-based hand sanitisers: a warning to mitigate future poisonings and deaths	17
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on team considerations, study selection, data extraction and risk of bias assessment	16
Rapid access to innovative medicinal products while ensuring relevant health technology assessment. Position of the French National Authority for Health	15
Ten years later: a review of the US 2009 institute of medicine report on conflicts of interest and solutions for further reform	15
Combination fixed-dose β agonist and steroid inhaler as required for adults or children with mild asthma: a Cochrane systematic review	13
Coroners’ concerns to prevent harms: a series of coroners’ case reports to serve patient safety and educate the public, clinicians and policy-makers	13
Using claims in the media to teach essential concepts for evidence-based healthcare	12
Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users	12
Diclofenac in adolescents: diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal adverse drug reactions can prevent future deaths	12
Catalogue of bias: selective outcome reporting bias	12
Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis	12
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on assessing the certainty of evidence	11
How to humanise the COVID-19 intensive care units	11
Registration of health and medical research	11
Risks of infection, hospital and ICU admission, and death from COVID-19 in people with asthma: systematic review and meta-analyses	11
Economic evaluation of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) versus vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
School closures during COVID-19: an overview of systematic reviews	11
Enhancing title and abstract screening for systematic reviews with GPT-3.5 turbo	10
Can shared decision making address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?	10
Should COVID-19 vaccination be mandatory?	9
Interventions for Menière’s disease: an umbrella systematic review	9
Development of literature search strategies for evidence syntheses: pros and cons of incorporating text mining tools and objective approaches	8
Publication by association: how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown relationships between authors and editorial board members in the field of infectious diseases	8
Guest authorship as research misconduct: definitions and possible solutions	8
Correlation between the use of statins and COVID-19: what do we know?	8
Tramadol: repeated prescriptions and repeated warnings	8
Component network meta-analysis in a nutshell	8
Emollients and smoking: a fire hazard that could be prevented to reduce future deaths	8
Overdiagnosis in malignant melanoma: a scoping review	8
Is a one-size-fits-all ‘12-month rule’ appropriate when it comes to the last search date in systematic reviews?	8
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 1): how to interpret healthcare information available on platforms	8
Preventable deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in England and Wales: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters	7
Barriers to reporting guideline adherence in point-of-care ultrasound research: a cross-sectional survey of authors and journal editors	7
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 2): how to appraise studies using data from platforms	7
Which actionable statements qualify as good practice statements In Covid-19 guidelines? A systematic appraisal	7
Blinding practices during acute point-of-care ultrasound research: the BLIND-US meta-research study	7
Thresholds for interpreting the fragility index derived from sample of randomised controlled trials in cardiology: a meta-epidemiologic study	6
The complexity underlying treatment rankings: how to use them and what to look at	6
Ivabradine added to usual care in patients with heart failure: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	6
Association of study design features and treatment effects in trials of chronic medical conditions: a meta-epidemiological study	6
Swallowing outcomes in dysphagia interventions in Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review	6
Perspectives on the production, and use, of rapid evidence in decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	6
Decision Analysis in SHared decision making for Thromboprophylaxis during Pregnancy (DASH-TOP): a sequential explanatory mixed-methods pilot study	6
Effect of spin in the abstract of a randomised controlled trial on physiotherapists’ perception of treatment benefit: a randomised controlled trial	6
Consensus on evidence-based medicine curriculum contents for healthcare schools in Brazil	6
Correlation between chest CT and RT-PCR testing in India’s second COVID-19 wave: a retrospective cohort study	5
Metro Mapping: development of an innovative methodology to co-design care paths to support shared decision making in oncology	5

Accreditation drives teaching: evidence-based medicine and medical education standards	5
Digitally enabled decentralised research: opportunities to improve the efficiency of clinical trials and observational studies	5
Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations	5
When does the placebo effect have an impact on network meta-analysis results?	5
Proposed triggers for retiring a living systematic review	5
An evidence map of randomised controlled trials evaluating genetic therapies	5
Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases	5
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk	5
Integrating large language models in systematic reviews: a framework and case study using ROBINS-I for risk of bias assessment	5
Kidney trajectory charts to assist general practitioners in the assessment of patients with reduced kidney function: a randomised vignette study	5
Knowledge user survey and Delphi process to inform development of a new risk of bias tool to assess systematic reviews with network meta-analysis (RoB NMA tool)	5
EMA’s mishandling of an investigation into suspected serious neurological harms of HPV vaccines	5
The Six Steps of SDM: linking theory to practice, measurement and implementation	5
The Pandora’s Box of Evidence Synthesis and the case for a living Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy	5
Proportion attributable to contextual effects in general medicine: a meta-epidemiological study based on Cochrane reviews	5
Patient-reported effects of hospital-wide implementation of shared decision-making at a university medical centre in Germany: a pre–post trial	5