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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Fibrinolysis Shutdown Correlation with Thromboembolic Events in Severe COVID-19 Infection	291
Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedures: Scoring System to Ethically and Efficiently Manage Resource Scarcity and Provider Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic	219
Implementation Guide for Rapid Integration of an Outpatient Telemedicine Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic	133
Precautions for Operating Room Team Members During the COVID-19 Pandemic	114
Residency and Fellowship Program Accreditation: Effects of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic	82
Proceedings from the Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Death and Disability in the US	80
Increased Firearm Injury During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hidden Urban Burden	77
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Lived Experience of Surgical Residents, Fellows, and Early-Career Surgeons in the American College of Surgeons	76
Maximizing the Calm before the Storm: Tiered Surgical Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)	75
Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community	74
Patient Satisfaction and Pain Control Using an Opioid-Sparing Postoperative Pathway	70
High Social Vulnerability and “Textbook Outcomes” after Cancer Operation	63
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lung Cancer Screening Program and Subsequent Lung Cancer	60
Improving Operating Room Efficiency: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Case-Time Duration	57
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	55
Safety and Efficacy of Synthetic Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in a Contaminated Field	53
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	50
Electric Scooter Injury in Southern California Trauma Centers	47
Surgeons, Ethics, and COVID-19: Early Lessons Learned	44
Ethics in the Time of Coronavirus: Recommendations in the COVID-19 Pandemic	43
Transarterial Chemoembolization vs Radioembolization for Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases: A Multi-Institutional Analysis	42
Conditional Recurrence-Free Survival after Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases: Persistent Deleterious Association with RAS and TP53 Co-Mutation	42
Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic	39
Survey of the US Surgeon Workforce: Practice Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, and Reasons for Leaving Surgery	39
Outcomes of Resectability Assessment of the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group Liver Metastases Expert Panel	39

Enhancing the American College of Surgeons NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator to Predict Geriatric Outcomes	38
Ethical Rationing of Personal Protective Equipment to Minimize Moral Residue During the COVID-19 Pandemic	38
Can We Improve Prediction of Adverse Surgical Outcomes? Development of a Surgical Complexity Score Using a Novel Machine Learning Technique	37
Fibrinolysis Shutdown in COVID-19: Clinical Manifestations, Molecular Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Implications	37
Automated Surgical Instrument Detection from Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Video Images Using an Open Source Convolutional Neural Network Platform	36
Trends in Gender Representation at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress and the Academic Surgical Congress: A Mixed Picture of Progress	35
Novel Approach to Reduce Transmission of COVID-19 During Tracheostomy	35
En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection for Pancreatic Cancer: Classification of Anatomical Variants Based on Tumor Extent	34
Albumin-Bilirubin Score vs Model for End-Stage Liver Disease in Predicting Post-Hepatectomy Outcomes	34