OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology is 27. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and risk of sleep apnea: a nationwide cohort study	135
Does a tonsillectomy indicated according to the German S2k guideline affect short-term quality of life in adults?	77
Masseteric-facial anastomosis and hypoglossal-facial anastomosis after lateral skull base and middle ear surgery	60
The percentage of controlled chronic rhinosinusitis after treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis	56
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic marker for head and neck cancer with lung metastasis	52
Laryngeal function-preserving of frontolateral vertical partial laryngectomy (FLVPL) for selected T4a glottic cancer with thyroid cartilage invasion adherence to the anterior commissure: an innovative	52
Retrospective analysis of the role of intra-operative parathyroid hormone monitoring during parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism: a single center experience over 2 decades	47
An Unknown Foreign laryngeal Object: an exotic complication of skull base osteoradionecrosis	45
Prediction of severe radiation-induced oral mucositis in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma using the combined systemic immune-inflammatory index and prognostic nutritional index	42
Blue laser for the exclusive endoscopic transcanal approach to middle ear paraganglioma	41
In response to the importance of 24-h hypopharyngeal–esophageal impedance–pH monitoring for the treatment of laryngopharyngeal reflux	37
Lateral neck cyst surgery without ipsilateral tonsillectomy: a retrospective analysis	37
Clinical features of chronic fungal rhinosinusitis in Korean geriatric and non-geriatric patients	36
Sphenopalatine artery pseudoaneurysm masquerading as a second primary maxillary carcinoma	36
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 study of intratympanic OTO-313 in patients with moderate to severe subjective tinnitus	36
Speech recognition and quality of life outcomes of adults with cochlear implants following a quarter-century of deafness: what should be the maximum duration?	34
Effect of auditory feedback on speech intelligibility of adults with cochlear implants	34
The first quick olfactory test specific for Alzheimer’s disease and French culture	34
Retrospective analysis of radiological investigation of surgically excised head and neck lipomas	33
Objective and subjective efficacy of hearing aids in patients with mild-to-moderate unilateral hearing loss: a prospective study	33
Modified procedure for reconstructing the inferomedial orbital wall: silicone sheet implantation without surgical removal	31
Analysis of the cause of retrolingual obstruction in patients with moderate–severe obstructive sleep apnea	30
Functional outcomes for speech-in-noise intelligibility of NAL-NL2 and DSL v.5 prescriptive fitting rules in hearing aid users	29
Does the ChOLE classification relate to the duration of surgery?	29
Patient-reported outcome during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: the use of different PRO questionnaires	28

Universal newborn hearing screening with automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) in Hungary: 5-year experience in diagnostics and influence on the early intervention	28
A randomized prospective comparative study on sinonasal morbidity and quality of life of transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery for pituitary adenomas: endonasal versus trans-septal approach	27
Survival analysis of laryngeal squamous cell cancer, considering different treatment modalities and other factors influencing survival – a monocentric retrospective investigation	27