OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of the American College of Surgeons is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fibrinolysis Shutdown Correlation with Thromboembolic Events in Severe COVID-19 Infection	310
Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedures: Scoring System to Ethically and Efficiently Manage Resource Scarcity and Provider Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic	232
Implementation Guide for Rapid Integration of an Outpatient Telemedicine Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic	143
Precautions for Operating Room Team Members During the COVID-19 Pandemic	120
High Social Vulnerability and “Textbook Outcomes” after Cancer Operation	97
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Lived Experience of Surgical Residents, Fellows, and Early-Career Surgeons in the American College of Surgeons	89
Increased Firearm Injury During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hidden Urban Burden	88
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lung Cancer Screening Program and Subsequent Lung Cancer	84
Residency and Fellowship Program Accreditation: Effects of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic	83
Maximizing the Calm before the Storm: Tiered Surgical Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)	79
Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community	75
Safety and Efficacy of Synthetic Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in a Contaminated Field	61
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Surgical Training and Learner Well-Being: Report of a Survey of General Surgery and Other Surgical Specialty Educators	59
Electric Scooter Injury in Southern California Trauma Centers	57
Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center	54
Impact of Incorporating Whole Blood into Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation: Analysis of 1,377 Consecutive Trauma Patients Receiving Emergency-Release Uncrossmatched Blood Products	49
Ethics in the Time of Coronavirus: Recommendations in the COVID-19 Pandemic	47
Automated Surgical Instrument Detection from Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Video Images Using an Open Source Convolutional Neural Network Platform	46
Surgeons, Ethics, and COVID-19: Early Lessons Learned	45
Design and Impact of a Novel Surgery-Specific Second Victim Peer Support Program	44
Transarterial Chemoembolization vs Radioembolization for Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases: A Multi-Institutional Analysis	44
Fibrinolysis Shutdown in COVID-19: Clinical Manifestations, Molecular Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Implications	44
Primary Surgery with Systemic Therapy in Patients with de Novo Stage IV Breast Cancer: 10-year Follow-up; Protocol MF07-01 Randomized Clinical Trial	44
Albumin-Bilirubin Score vs Model for End-Stage Liver Disease in Predicting Post-Hepatectomy Outcomes	41
Avoidance of Overtreatment of Rectal Cancer by Selective Chemoradiotherapy: Results of the Optimized Surgery and MRI-Based Multimodal Therapy Trial	41

Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic	39
Impact of Postoperative Complication and Completion of Multimodality Therapy on Survival in Patients Undergoing Gastrectomy for Advanced Gastric Cancer	38
Ethical Rationing of Personal Protective Equipment to Minimize Moral Residue During the COVID-19 Pandemic	38
Laparoscopic-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Management in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	37
En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection for Pancreatic Cancer: Classification of Anatomical Variants Based on Tumor Extent	37
Impact of Margin Status on Survival in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy	36
Novel Approach to Reduce Transmission of COVID-19 During Tracheostomy	36
Association Between Medicaid Expansion and Diagnosis and Management of Colon Cancer	35
Thirty-Day Morbidity after Simultaneous Resection of Colorectal Cancer and Colorectal Liver Metastasis: American College of Surgeons NSQIP Analysis	34
Strategies for Trauma Centers to Address the Root Causes of Violence: Recommendations from the Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE) Workgroup of the American College of Surgeons	34
Clinical Outcomes and Predictors of Favorable Result after Laparoscopic Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation: Single-Institution Experience with More than 500 Patients	34