OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Anaesthesiology is 24. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pre-operative anaemia in nonagenarians and centenarians undergoing hip fracture surgery	205
Platelet-sparing properties of aprotinin	179
Anaesthetic implications of psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide: what is old is now new	167
Personalised analgesia/nociception index-guided opioid administration for abdominal surgery	152
Levosimendan improves central haemodynamic status and gas exchange in a model of ischaemic cardiac arrest	136
Continuous positive airway pressure to prevent reintubation in patients recovering from cardiac surgery	79
Personality in anaesthesiologists, a systematic review of the literature	61
Simulation-based education and training in anaesthesia during residency in Europe: where are we now?	57
Effects of dexmedetomidine, propofol, sevoflurane and S-ketamine on the human metabolome	57
Serious games as an innovative learning tool at a medical conference to teach medical knowledge and crisis resource management	47
Anaesthesiologist workload during intra-operative paediatric anaesthesia	46
Association between pre-operative hyperuricemia and risk of in-hospital death in high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery	42
Comparative dose--response study on norepinephrine infusion for preventing hypotension during spinal anaesthesia for caesarean delivery in singleton versus twin pregnancies	42
Joint Letter to the Editor from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care on Management of Neuromuscular Blockade	39
The burden of peri-operative work at night as perceived by anaesthesiologists	35
Using small doses of norepinephrine or phenylephrine during the peri-operative period	34
Association between night-time extubation and clinical outcomes in adult patients	34
Comparison of a videolaryngoscope with a 3D-printed angled blade and a direct laryngoscope with a Macintosh blade for rapid sequence tracheal intubation	33
Reply to: vasopressor effects on venous return in septic patients: a review	31
(Re)animation of a stuffed plush bunny	30
An update on remimazolam and anaphylaxis	29
Cost-effectiveness of detection of peri-operative myocardial injury	29
Machine learning-based prediction of massive perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion in cardiac surgery	25
Epidemiology and outcomes of inguinal surgery with or without regional anaesthesia in neonates and small infants	25
Opioid-sparing effect of modified intercostal nerve block during single-port thoracoscopic lobectomy	24