OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Radiotherapy and Oncology is 44. 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
Meta-analysis of chemotherapy in head and neck cancer (MACH-NC): An update on 107 randomized trials and 19,805 patients, on behalf of MACH-NC Group	183
Overview of artificial intelligence-based applications in radiotherapy: Recommendations for implementation and quality assurance	181
Boron neutron capture therapy using cyclotron-based epithermal neutron source and borofalan (10B) for recurrent or locally advanced head and neck cancer (JHN002): An open-label phase II trial	129
A physicochemical model of reaction kinetics supports peroxyl radical recombination as the main determinant of the FLASH effect	116
Metrics to evaluate the performance of auto-segmentation for radiation treatment planning: A critical review	110
What is plan quality in radiotherapy? The importance of evaluating dose metrics, complexity, and robustness of treatment plans	110
ESGO/ESTRO/ESP guidelines for the management of patients with endometrial carcinoma	105
A deep learning-based auto-segmentation system for organs-at-risk on whole-body computed tomography images for radiation therapy	94
Computed tomography-based deep-learning prediction of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy treatment response in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma	92
Radiotherapy Treatment plannINg study Guidelines (RATING): A framework for setting up and reporting on scientific treatment planning studies	91
The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapy	79
Theranostic AGuIX nanoparticles as radiosensitizer: A phase I, dose-escalation study in patients with multiple brain metastases (NANO-RAD trial)	79
In vivo validation and tissue sparing factor for acute damage of pencil beam scanning proton FLASH	75
Mechanisms of radiation-induced endothelium damage: Emerging models and technologies	74
A deep learning approach to generate synthetic CT in low field MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal and pelvic cases	69
Deep learning-based synthetic CT generation for paediatric brain MR-only photon and proton radiotherapy	69
Online adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy for rectal cancer; feasibility of the workflow on a 1.5T MR-linac: clinical implementation and initial experience	68
Comprehensive toxicity risk profiling in radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: A new concept for individually optimised treatment	68
May oxygen depletion explain the FLASH effect? A chemical track structure analysis	67
Randomised trial of external-beam radiotherapy alone or with high-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer: Mature 12-year results	67
A systematic review on the usage of averaged LET in radiation biology for particle therapy	64
ADC measurements on the Unity MR-linac – A recommendation on behalf of the Elekta Unity MR-linac consortium	63
Clinical evaluation of atlas- and deep learning-based automatic segmentation of multiple organs and clinical target volumes for breast cancer	63
Patterns of practice for adaptive and real-time radiation therapy (POP-ART RT) part II: Offline and online plan adaption for interfractional changes	62
Clinical implementation of deep learning contour autosegmentation for prostate radiotherapy	62

First magnetic resonance imaging-guided cardiac radioablation of sustained ventricular tachycardia	62
Reduction of clinical safety margins in proton therapy enabled by the clinical implementation of dual-energy CT for direct stopping-power prediction	60
Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm for auto-delineation of clinical target volume and organs at risk in cervical cancer radiotherapy	57
IBS-GEC ESTRO-ABS recommendations for CT based contouring in image guided adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer	56
Deep learning-based auto-segmentation of organs at risk in high-dose rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer	55
ESTRO-EANO guideline on target delineation and radiotherapy details for glioblastoma	55
Improvement of prediction and classification performance for gamma passing rate by using plan complexity and dosiomics features	55
Hypofractionated radiotherapy in the real-world setting: An international ESTRO-GIRO survey	53
Timing to achieve the highest rate of pCR after preoperative radiochemotherapy in rectal cancer: a pooled analysis of 3085 patients from 7 randomized trials	53
First demonstration of the FLASH effect with ultrahigh dose rate high-energy X-rays	52
ESTRO ACROP guideline for target volume delineation of skull base tumors	52
Dose prediction with deep learning for prostate cancer radiation therapy: Model adaptation to different treatment planning practices	51
High-dose irradiation in combination with non-ablative low-dose radiation to treat metastatic disease after progression on immunotherapy: Results of a phase II trial	50
Comparison of ultra-high versus conventional dose rate radiotherapy in a patient with cutaneous lymphoma	49
The role of the gut microbiome on radiation therapy efficacy and gastrointestinal complications: A systematic review	49
Radiation-induced risk of ischemic heart disease following breast cancer radiotherapy in Denmark, 1977–2005	48
Does the uncertainty in relative biological effectiveness affect patient treatment in proton therapy?	47
FLASH with carbon ions: Tumor control, normal tissue sparing, and distal metastasis in a mouse osteosarcoma model	46
Online adaptive radiotherapy of urinary bladder cancer with full re-optimization to the anatomy of the day: Initial experience and dosimetric benefits	46
Recommendations for radiation therapy in oligometastatic prostate cancer: An ESTRO-ACROP Delphi consensus	44