OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Anaesthesiology is 28. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	292
(Re)animation of a stuffed plush bunny	221
Cost-effectiveness of detection of peri-operative myocardial injury	213
Association between pre-operative hyperuricemia and risk of in-hospital death in high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery	196
Serious games as an innovative learning tool at a medical conference to teach medical knowledge and crisis resource management	120
Personalised analgesia/nociception index-guided opioid administration for abdominal surgery	99
Pre-operative anaemia in nonagenarians and centenarians undergoing hip fracture surgery	81
Platelet-sparing properties of aprotinin	61
Comparison of a videolaryngoscope with a 3D-printed angled blade and a direct laryngoscope with a Macintosh blade for rapid sequence tracheal intubation	56
Anaesthetic implications of psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide: what is old is now new	51
Epidemiology and outcomes of inguinal surgery with or without regional anaesthesia in neonates and small infants	51
Levosimendan improves central haemodynamic status and gas exchange in a model of ischaemic cardiac arrest	49
Using small doses of norepinephrine or phenylephrine during the peri-operative period	48
Remimazolam tosylate versus propofol for postoperative delirium in frail elderly patients undergoing hip surgery	44
Appraisal of “Preventing pulmonary complications after laparoscopic colorectal surgery: a lung-protective protocol vs. standard care”	43
Machine learning-based prediction of massive perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion in cardiac surgery	42
The burden of peri-operative work at night as perceived by anaesthesiologists	42
Continuous positive airway pressure to prevent reintubation in patients recovering from cardiac surgery	40
An update on remimazolam and anaphylaxis	39
The risks we miss	37
In response to ‘A big little problem – postoperative nausea and vomiting incidences are too low!’	33
Integrated lung-protective ventilation in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: beyond conventional protective strategies	33
Influence of pairing in examiner leniency and stringency (‘hawk-dove effect’) in part II of the European Diploma of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care	30
Benumof and Hagberg's Airway Management	30
A climate perspective on spinal anaesthesia with sedation versus total intravenous anaesthesia for lower limb arthroplasty	30

Nociception level index-guided antinociception versus routine care during remifentanil-propofol anaesthesia for moderate-to-high risk cardiovascular surgery	28
Treating cardiac surgery emergencies: the role of the noncardiac anaesthetist in the first 30 min	28
Effects of intra-operative ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure on peri-operative fluid and vasopressor management in patients undergoing minimally invasive oesophagectomy: posthoc analys	28