OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery is 37. 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
The incidence of shoulder arthroplasty: rise and future projections compared with hip and knee arthroplasty	246
Increasing incidence of primary reverse and anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty in the United States	202
The role of telehealth as a platform for postoperative visits following rotator cuff repair: a prospective, randomized controlled trial	95
Comparison of complication types and rates associated with anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty	91
Management of irreparable massive rotator cuff tears: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient-reported outcomes, reoperation rates, and treatment response	89
Minimal clinically important differences in the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, Simple Shoulder Test, and visual analog scale pain scores after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair	81
Revision of failed shoulder arthroplasty: epidemiology, etiology, and surgical options	76
Minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for patient-reported shoulder outcomes	72
Risk factors affecting rotator cuff retear after arthroscopic repair: a meta-analysis and systematic review	66
Outcome of arthroscopically assisted lower trapezius transfer to reconstruct massive irreparable posterior-superior rotator cuff tears	63
Acute surgical management of proximal humerus fractures: ORIF vs. hemiarthroplasty vs. reverse shoulder arthroplasty	63
Clinical and radiographic outcomes with a posteriorly augmented glenoid for Walch B2, B3, and C glenoids in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty	59
Acromial stress fracture following reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: incidence and predictors	57
Locking plate fixation of proximal humerus fractures in patients older than 60 years continues to be associated with a high complication rate	55
Stemless anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
The risk of postoperative scapular spine fracture following reverse shoulder arthroplasty is increased with an onlay humeral stem	51
Validation of a machine learning–derived clinical metric to quantify outcomes after total shoulder arthroplasty	50
Conservative vs. operative treatment for humeral shaft fractures: a meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized clinical trials and observational studies	50
Predictors of acromial and scapular stress fracture after reverse shoulder arthroplasty: a study by the ASES Complications of RSA Multicenter Research Group	48
Defining massive rotator cuff tears: a Delphi consensus study	48
Early radiographic failure of reverse total shoulder arthroplasty with structural bone graft for glenoid bone loss	47
Risk factors for complications and revision surgery after anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty	46
Orthopedic surgery post COVID-19: an opportunity for innovation and transformation	43
Arthroscopic Bankart repair with and without arthroscopic infraspinatus remplissage in anterior shoulder instability with a Hill-Sachs defect: a randomized controlled trial	40
Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty provides better shoulder function than hemiarthroplasty for displaced 3- and 4-part proximal humeral fractures in patients aged 70 years or older: a multicenter ran	40

Short-term complications of the Latarjet procedure: a systematic review	40
Psychosocial factors affecting outcomes after shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review	40
Same-day discharge is not inferior to longer length of in-hospital stay for 90-day readmissions following shoulder arthroplasty	39
Neurologic deficit after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: correlation with distalization	39
Predictors of patient satisfaction after reverse shoulder arthroplasty	39
The value of artificial neural networks for predicting length of stay, discharge disposition, and inpatient costs after anatomic and reverse shoulder arthroplasty	38
Anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty for primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis is associated with excellent outcomes and low revision rates in the elderly	38
Biceps tenodesis versus tenotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of level I randomized controlled trials	38
Clinical and structural outcome 20 years after repair of massive rotator cuff tears	37
Development of supervised machine learning algorithms for prediction of satisfaction at 2 years following total shoulder arthroplasty	37
Using machine learning to predict clinical outcomes after shoulder arthroplasty with a minimal feature set	37
The arthroscopic Latarjet: a multisurgeon learning curve analysis	37
A randomized single-blinded trial of early rehabilitation versus immobilization after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty	37