OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Surgery is 32. 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
A nationwide analysis of pancreatic cancer trial enrollment reveals disparities and participation problems	126
Killing mosquitoes or draining the swamp?	105
Letter to the Editor: Surgeon electronic health record (EHR) usage	89
Concurrent SARS-COV-19 and acute appendicitis: Management and outcomes across United States children’s hospitals	83
Invited commentary on “Establishment of a nomogram prediction model for long diameter 10- to 15-mm gallbladder polyps with malignant tendency”	80
A new operation for gallstones: Choledochoscopic gallbladder-preserving cholecystolithotomy, a retrospective study of 3,511 cases	71
Proof of concept of improved fluorescence-guided surgery of colon cancer liver metastasis using color-coded imaging of a tumor-labeling fluorescent antibody and indocyanine green restricted to the adj	65
Surgery and pain relief: A closer look at opioid prescription trends	58
Financing and cost-effectiveness of emergency medical services in low- and middle-income countries	56
Failed recovery after pancreatoduodenectomy: A significant problem even without surgical complications	54
Beyond the language barrier: Assessing health literacy of Spanish breast cancer surgery resources	53
Information for readers	50
Discussion	48
Discussion	47
Discussion	47
Discussion	45
Discussion	44
Discussion	44
Pancreaticoduodenectomy is safe in appropriately resourced rural hospitals	44
Discussion	40
Air in the Wirsung duct	39
Discussion	37
Evaluating the effectiveness of using negative pressure wound therapy in the preservation of the infected prosthetic aortic graft	35
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Operative staff perspectives of surgeon coping with intraoperative errors	35
Medullary thyroid cancer with RET V804M mutation: more indolent than expected?	35

Lymph node ratio–based model for predicting survival and assessing the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in postoperative duodenal adenocarcinoma	34
Access to surgical treatment for hepatopancreaticobiliary cancer in the Philippines	34
The role of bone marrow microRNA (miR) in erythropoietic dysfunction after severe trauma	33
Medullary thyroid cancer: What is the optimal management of the lateral neck in a node negative patient at index operation?	33
Ancillary documents for NIH grant applications: The pages beyond the science	32
A Tribute to Dr Kevin E. Behrns, Editor-in-Chief of SURGERY	32
Disparities in Time to Surgeon Evaluation Among Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism	32