OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Surgery is 27. 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
Increasing incidence of complicated appendicitis during COVID-19 pandemic	115
Implementation of virtual focus groups for qualitative data collection in a global pandemic	108
How resilient is your team? Exploring healthcare providers’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	86
A systematic review and meta-analysis of surgery delays and survival in breast, lung and colon cancers: Implication for surgical triage during the COVID-19 pandemic	74
Gender and ethnic diversity in academic general surgery department leadership	64
Standing electric scooter injuries: Impact on a community	61
A contemporary reassessment of the US surgical workforce through 2050 predicts continued shortages and increased productivity demands	53
Adjuvant therapy rates and overall survival in patients with localized pancreatic cancer from high Area Deprivation Index neighborhoods	49
Management of simple and retained hemothorax: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma	44
Surgeon burnout, impact on patient safety and professionalism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Simulation in surgical education	37
Where is the leak in the surgeon pipeline?	37
The what? How? And Who? Of video based assessment	37
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on general surgery training program: An Italian experience	36
Emergency Department Resuscitative Thoracotomy: Indications, surgical procedure and outcome. A narrative review	34
The effect of bariatric surgery on breast cancer incidence and characteristics: A meta-analysis and systematic review	30
The association of health literacy and postoperative complications after colorectal surgery: A cohort study	30
Association between age and disease specific mortality in medullary thyroid cancer	29
Cryoablation: A promising non-operative therapy for low-risk breast cancer	29
Closing the gap: Increasing female representation in surgical leadership	28
Program and candidate experience with virtual interviews for the 2020 Complex General Surgical Oncology interview season during the COVID pandemic	28
Development of a conceptual model for understanding the learning environment and surgical resident well-being	28
Specialty differences in resident resilience and burnout - A national survey	27
Patient-reported health literacy scores are associated with readmissions following surgery	27
Preoperative botulinum toxin A injection in complex abdominal wall reconstruction– a propensity-scored matched study	27

Refusal of surgery for colon cancer: Sociodemographic disparities and survival implications among US patients with resectable disease	27
Refusal of cancer-directed treatment by colon cancer patients: Risk factors and survival outcomes	27
The current status of the diversity pipeline in surgical training	27