OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Radiotherapy and Oncology is 49. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining oligometastatic disease from a radiation oncology perspective: An ESTRO-ASTRO consensus document	330
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	146
Comparing deep learning-based auto-segmentation of organs at risk and clinical target volumes to expert inter-observer variability in radiotherapy planning	142
Overview of artificial intelligence-based applications in radiotherapy: Recommendations for implementation and quality assurance	138
Practice recommendations for lung cancer radiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ESTRO-ASTRO consensus statement	138
Compliance and tolerability of short-course radiotherapy followed by preoperative chemotherapy and surgery for high-risk rectal cancer – Results of the international randomized RAPIDO-trial	123
Primary endpoint analysis of the multicentre phase II hypo-FLAME trial for intermediate and high risk prostate cancer	107
A physicochemical model of reaction kinetics supports peroxyl radical recombination as the main determinant of the FLASH effect	100
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	96
Distributed learning on 20 000+ lung cancer patients – The Personal Health Train	93
Development and validation of a CT-based radiomic nomogram for preoperative prediction of early recurrence in advanced gastric cancer	87
Comparisons between radiofrequency ablation and stereotactic body radiotherapy for liver malignancies: Meta-analyses and a systematic review	86
ESGO/ESTRO/ESP guidelines for the management of patients with endometrial carcinoma	84
Prostate high dose-rate brachytherapy as monotherapy for low and intermediate risk prostate cancer: Efficacy results from a randomized phase II clinical trial of one fraction of 19 Gy or two fractions	84
Metrics to evaluate the performance of auto-segmentation for radiation treatment planning: A critical review	83
What is plan quality in radiotherapy? The importance of evaluating dose metrics, complexity, and robustness of treatment plans	82
Impact of sarcopenia on survival and late toxicity in head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy	81
Ultra-high dose rate effect on circulating immune cells: A potential mechanism for FLASH effect?	81
A deep learning-based auto-segmentation system for organs-at-risk on whole-body computed tomography images for radiation therapy	74
Radiotherapy Treatment plannINg study Guidelines (RATING): A framework for setting up and reporting on scientific treatment planning studies	73
Computed tomography-based deep-learning prediction of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy treatment response in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma	72
Low dose radiation therapy as a potential life saving treatment for COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)	70
Prostate intrafraction motion during the preparation and delivery of MR-guided radiotherapy sessions on a 1.5T MR-Linac	70
Quantitative imaging for radiotherapy purposes	69
The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapy	67

Theranostic AGuIX nanoparticles as radiosensitizer: A phase I, dose-escalation study in patients with multiple brain metastases (NANO-RAD trial)	65
Radiotherapy workflow and protection procedures during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: Experience of the Hubei Cancer Hospital in Wuhan, China	64
First experience with model-based selection of head and neck cancer patients for proton therapy	63
Stereotactic MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy for peripheral lung tumors	62
A deep learning risk prediction model for overall survival in patients with gastric cancer: A multicenter study	61
May oxygen depletion explain the FLASH effect? A chemical track structure analysis	61
Auto-segmentation of pancreatic tumor in multi-parametric MRI using deep convolutional neural networks	59
A deep learning approach to generate synthetic CT in low field MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal and pelvic cases	59
Is low dose radiation therapy a potential treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia?	58
Toxicity in combination immune checkpoint inhibitor and radiation therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	58
Interaction between lymphopenia, radiotherapy technique, dosimetry, and survival outcomes in lung cancer patients receiving combined immunotherapy and radiotherapy	58
Randomised trial of external-beam radiotherapy alone or with high-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer: Mature 12-year results	57
International expert consensus statement regarding radiotherapy treatment options for rectal cancer during the COVID 19 pandemic	57
Deep learning-based synthetic CT generation for paediatric brain MR-only photon and proton radiotherapy	56
Online adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy for rectal cancer; feasibility of the workflow on a 1.5T MR-linac: clinical implementation and initial experience	56
Mechanisms of radiation-induced endothelium damage: Emerging models and technologies	55
First magnetic resonance imaging-guided cardiac radioablation of sustained ventricular tachycardia	54
Clinical implementation of deep learning contour autosegmentation for prostate radiotherapy	54
The impact of the effective dose to immune cells on lymphopenia and survival of esophageal cancer after chemoradiotherapy	53
ADC measurements on the Unity MR-linac – A recommendation on behalf of the Elekta Unity MR-linac consortium	52
Partial breast irradiation with the 1.5 T MR-Linac: First patient treatment and analysis of electron return and stream effects	52
The impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on head and neck cancer patients’ care	51
ESTRO IORT Task Force/ACROP recommendations for intraoperative radiation therapy with electrons (IOERT) in breast cancer	50
Patterns of practice for adaptive and real-time radiation therapy (POP-ART RT) part II: Offline and online plan adaption for interfractional changes	50
Clinical evaluation of atlas- and deep learning-based automatic segmentation of multiple organs and clinical target volumes for breast cancer	49
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on practice in European radiation oncology centers	49
Organ at risk delineation for radiation therapy clinical trials: Global Harmonization Group consensus guidelines	49