OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Laboratory Medicine is 2. 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
Second generation of soluble transferrin receptor assay – consequences for the interpretation of the ‘Thomas plot’	65
Liquid profiling for cancer patient stratification in precision medicine – current status and challenges for successful implementation in standard care	13
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It did not stop there: rapid substitution of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7 (Alpha) by variant of concern B.1.617.2 (Delta) and further evolution of different Delta sublineages in S	11
Emerging technologies in paediatric laboratory medicine	10
Editorial to the revision of the “Guideline of the German Medical Association on quality assurance in medical laboratory examinations – Rili-BAEK”	10
Blood indices and circulating tumor cells for predicting metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation	9
Intensity-dependent stimulation of leukocyte telomerase activity by endurance exercise – a pilot study	8
Frontmatter	8
Status of liquid profiling in precision oncology – the need for integrative diagnostics for successful implementation into standard care	7
Automation in small labs	6
German Congress of Laboratory Medicine: 18th Annual Congress of the DGKL and 5th Symposium of the Biomedical Analytics of the DVTA e. V.	6
Automated sex and age partitioning for the estimation of reference intervals using a regression tree model	6
Frontmatter	6
Profound decline of antibody titers 6 months after BNT162b2 vaccination in healthy volunteers	6
Profiling disease and tissue-specific epigenetic signatures in cell-free DNA	6
Frontmatter	5
German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine – areas of expertise: Division reports from the German Congress of Laboratory Medicine 2022 in Mannheim, 13–14 October 2022	5
Assessing the stability of uncentrifuged serum and plasma analytes at various post-collection intervals	5
Study on pathogen spectrum of 1,046 hospitalized children with respiratory tract infections during COVID-19	5
Frontmatter	5
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Revision of the “Guideline of the German Medical Association on Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratory Examinations – Rili-BAEK”	4
Frontmatter	4
Determination of Sigma metric based on various TEa sources for CBC parameters: the need for Sigma metrics harmonization	4

Proof of concept: stabilized whole blood material suitable for external quality assessment of near-patient testing devices	4
Pan-cancer screening by circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) – recent breakthroughs and chronic pitfalls	4
A new machine-learning-based prediction of survival in patients with end-stage liver disease	3
Contact phase inhibitors: the future of anticoagulation?	3
New and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of urinary tract infections	3
Hematology instruments don’t speak the same language: a comparison study between flagging messages of sysmex XN-1000 and alinity H	3
Evaluation of antioxidant and antiinflammatory activity of ethanolic extracts of Polygonum senticosum in lipopolysaccharide-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages	3
Clinical usefulness of the “GeneSoC^® SARS-CoV-2 N2 Detection Kit”	3
Electronic tools in clinical laboratory diagnostics: key examples, limitations, and value in laboratory medicine	3
Reference intervals of homocysteine in apparently healthy Chinese Han ethnic adults	3
Giant granules in white blood cells	3
New reference intervals for endocrinological biomarkers in pediatric patients: what can we learn from the LIFE child study?	3
Applied biostatistics in laboratory medicine	3
Digital competence in laboratory medicine	3
Frontmatter	3
Qualification and quantification of plasma cell-free DNA after long-term storage conditions in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): a pilot study	3
Update on endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: severe disease, long COVID-19 and pediatric characteristics	3
A novel multimodal approach for the assessment of phlebotomy performance in nurses	2
The rising tide of cell-free DNA profiling: from snapshot to temporal genome analysis	2
XVth International Congress on Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Munich, Nov 27–28, 2021; Poster Presentation Abstracts	2
Frontmatter	2
Data mining of pediatric reference intervals	2
Clinical performance and potential of a SARS-CoV-2 detection kit without RNA purification steps	2
Frontmatter	2
Diagnostic accuracy of stool sample-based PCR in detecting Helicobacter pylori infection: a meta-analysis	2
A case report of pseudoleukopenia: playing hide-and-seek	2
Non-invasive prenatal screening tests – update 2022	2
A visualization tool for continuous reference intervals based on GAMLSS	2
RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal and salivary specimens: contribution of alternative collection systems and extraction processes to cope with mass screening. Interpretation of low vira	2
Editorial to: German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine – areas of expertise – division reports from the German Congress of Laboratory Medicine 2022 in Mannheim, 13–14 October 2022	2