OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Refractive Surgery is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of Chromatic Aberration on Visual Quality in Patients With Trifocal Intraocular Lenses	61
Resolution of Rainbow Glare After LASIK via Mechanical Scraping and Phototherapeutic Keratectomy of Flap Undersurface	42
Evaluation of the Effects of Myopic Astigmatism Correction and Anterior Corneal Curvature on Functional Optical Zone After SMILE	41
Astigmatism: Using Correct Analysis Methods and Terminology	40
Low Contrast Acuity Outcomes After SMILE and LASIK	40
Dawn in Alicante	38
2024 Reviewers	38
Reply: Objective Versus Subjective Depth of Focus	38
Patient-Reported Outcomes With Wavefront-Guided Laser in Situ Keratomileusis (PROWL) Study Outcomes From a Single Institution	35
Efficacy of Correcting Different Types of Astigmatism With Small Incision Lenticule Extraction: A Prospective Contralateral Eye Study	33
Agreement Between Lenstar LS900, Pentacam, and Sirius Devices in Terms of Anterior Segment Parameter Measurements in Keratoconic and Healthy Eyes	32
Seeing Without Light, A Mirror for My Aunt Rosi	32
Impact of Biometric Parameters on the Predictive Accuracy of Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Formulas Included in the ESCRS IOL Power Calculator	32
Femtosecond Intrastromal Lenticule Implantation (FILI) for Management of Moderate to High Hyperopia: 5-Year Outcomes	32
Short-term Evaluation of Visual Quality, Amplitude of Accommodation, and Stereoacuity Between Patients With Moderate-to-High Myopia Who Underwent ICLV4c Implantation and SMILE	31
Non-lens ORA and Leftover Astigmatism Are the Same Entity	30
Utilization of the Reinstein ICL Sizing Formula With Hand-held Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Measurements	28
Erratum for “COMPARISON OF KANE, HILL-RBF 2.0, BARRETT UNIVERSAL II, AND EMMETROPIA VERIFYING OPTICAL FORMULAS IN EYES WITH EXTREME MYOPIA”	28
Photorefractive Keratectomy: Technical Evolution, Refractive Outcomes, Corneal Wound Healing Response, and Complications	24
Reply: Intraoperative Factors Affecting Visual Recovery Following Hyperopic LASIK	24
Evaluation of a New All-in-One Optical Biometer and Comparison With a Validated Swept-source OCT Biometer	23
Pharmacological Accommodative Changes of Haptic Position and Its Impact on Vault After ICL Implantation	23
Risk Factors for Progression of Keratoconus and Failure Rate After Corneal Cross-linking	22
A Clear Look	20
Visual Performance and Optical Quality After Implantation of Non-diffractive Enhanced Depth of Focus Intraocular Lenses	19

Simulations of Multifocal Vision in Patients With Previous Monofocal Intraocular Lens Implantation	19
Comparison of Subjective and Wavefront-Measured Refractions by InnovEyes Platform in Myopic Patients	19
Accuracy of Nine Formulas to Calculate the Powers of an Extended Depth-of-Focus IOL Using Two SS-OCT Biometers	19
Erratum for “Comprehensive Comparison of Axial Length Measurement with Three Swept-Source OCT-Based Biometers and Partial Coherence Interferometry”	18
Enhancing Predicted Visual Acuity After SmartSight Lenticule Extraction: Identifying Key Factors With Machine Learning	18
Quantifying Corneal Topographic Astigmatism (CorT Total) in Keratoconic Eyes	18
Reply: Revisiting the Nomenclature: The Pitfalls of Renaming ‘Surgically Induced Astigmatism’	18
Erratum for “Epithelial Thickness Mapping in Keratoconic Corneas: Repeatability and Agreement Between CSO MS-39, Heidelberg Anterion, and Optovue Avanti oct Devices”	17
Corneal Biomechanical Alterations in Eyes After Radial Keratotomy Compared With Keratoconus	16
Long-term Results of Corneal Cross-linking for Recurrence of Keratoconus After Keratoplasty	16
Iontophoresis Corneal Cross-linking With Oxygen Supplementation in Ovine Eyes	16
Comparison of Refractive Prediction Accuracy With Three Optical Devices	16
Influence of Manufacturing Tolerance and Formula Thickness Type in the Prediction Error of Multifocal Intraocular Lens Power Calculation	15
Management of Anterior Stromal Necrosis After Polymethylmethacrylate ICRS: Explantation Versus Exchange With Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments	15
Through-Focus Response of Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lenses	15
Long-term Corneal Biomechanical Properties of Thin Corneas After Small Incision Lenticule Extraction Surgery: A Prospective Controlled Study	15
Corneal Epithelium Thickness and Refractive Changes After Myopic Laser Corneal Refractive Surgery	15
Repeatability of Automatic Measurements by an Anterior Segment Swept-Source OCT Biometer in Patients With Keratoconus	14
Remembering James J. Salz, MD	14
Standard Clinical Outcomes, Light Distortion, Stereopsis, and a Quality-of-Life Assessment of a New Binocular System of Complementary IOLs	14
Relative Accuracy Indices for Preoperative Differences in Sphere and SEQ Allow for Better Study Comparisons	14
Posterior Corneal Astigmatism Does Not Influence Manifest-Treated Topography-guided LASIK Outcomes	14
Evaluating the Effectiveness and Corneal Aberrations After FS-LASIK and SMART (SPT-Guided TransPRK) Surgery for Myopia and Astigmatism: Retrospective Study	14
Comparative Study of Primary SMILE, SMILE Enhancement, and Femtosecond Laser–Assisted LASIK on Higher Order Aberrations and Corneal Densitometry	14
The Impact of Corneal Epithelial Thickening and Inhomogeneity on Corneal Aberrations After Small Incision Lenticule Extraction	13
Changes in Corneal Densitometry Values of 50 Corneal Layers After Keratorefractive Lenticule Extraction (KLEx): A 6-Year Follow-Up	13
A Pilot Study of Lyophilized Decellularized Storage of SMILE-Derived Lenticules	13
Predictability of Keratorefractive Lenticule Extraction Is Equal to Variance of Preoperative Manifest Refraction Measurement	13
Outcomes of Corneal Compound Hyperopic Astigmatism With Presbyopia by Zeiss PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision LASIK Using Default Custom Refractive Software Master Target Refractions for Reduced Anisomet	12
Intraoperative Performance and Early Postoperative Outcomes Following Phacoemulsification With Three Fluidic Systems: A Randomized Trial	12
Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens Implantation Versus Four-Flanged Scleral Fixation Technique for Patients With Loss of Capsular Support During Routine Cataract Surgery	12
Objective and Subjective Quality of Vision After SMILE for High Myopia and Astigmatism	12
Three-Month Clinical Outcomes to Correct Myopia or Myopic Astigmatism Using a Femtosecond Laser for Lenticule Creation With Automated Centration and Cyclotorsion Compensation	12
Sequential Customized Therapeutic Keratectomy in Patients With a History of Radial Keratotomy	12
Is Astigmatism Correction Necessary for Patients With Cataract Who Have Corneal Astigmatism of Less Than 0.75 D?	12
Prediction of Implantable Collamer Lens Vault Based on Preoperative Biometric Factors and Lens Parameters	12
Effect of Posterior Keratometry and Corneal Radius Ratio on the Accuracy of Intraocular Lens Formulas After Myopic LASIK/PRK	12
Immediate Sequential Bilateral Implantable Collamer Lens Surgery Is Safe and Effective	12
Erratum for “VISUAL AND REFRACTIVE OUTCOMES FOLLOWING LASER BLENDED VISION WITH NON-LINEAR ASPHERIC MICRO-ANISOMETROPIA (PRESBYOND) IN MYOPIC AND HYPEROPIC PATIENTS”	12
Heidelberg Anterion Swept-Source OCT Corneal Epithelial Thickness Mapping: Repeatability and Agreement With Optovue Avanti	11
Occurrence of Invisible Eye Movement in KLEx and Its Effect on Visual Quality and Refractive Outcomes	11
Visual and Refractive Outcomes After Bi-aspheric Trifocal Toric Diffractive Intraocular Lens Implantation	11
Topical Losartan for Treating Corneal Fibrosis (Haze): First Clinical Experience	11
Erratum for “Visual and Refractive Outcomes After Bi-Aspheric Trifocal Toric Diffractive Intraocular Lens Implantation”	11
Camellin-Calossi Formula for Intraocular Lens Power Calculation in Patients With Previous Myopic Laser Vision Correction	11
Optical Performance and Refractive Outcomes of a New Monofocal Intraocular Lens With Intermediate Optimized Optics	11
Does Adjunctive Under-flap CXL Reduce Regression for Hyperopic LASIK?	11
Five-Year Follow-up of Toric Posterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lens With Central Port Design in Patients With Low and Normal Vault	10
Prevalence of Presbyopia-Correcting Intraocular Lens Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Intolerance	10
Optical and Clinical Outcomes of an Enhanced Monofocal Intraocular Lens for High Hyperopia	10

A Critical Reappraisal of the 400-μm Corneal Thickness Threshold for Endothelial Safety in Corneal Cross-linking	10
The Most Cited Articles and Authors in Refractive Surgery	10
2023 Reviewers	9
Bilensectomy: Safety and Visual Outcomes in Angle-Supported, Iris-Fixated, and Posterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lenses	9
Trifocal Intraocular Lens Selection: Predicting Visual Function From Optical Quality Measurements	9
Corneal Epithelial Remodeling Following Cylinder Correction With SMILE or FS-LASIK: A Contralateral Comparative Study	9
Repeatability and Comparison of Corneal Tomography in Mild to Severe Keratoconus Between the Anterior Segment OCT MS-39 and Pentacam HR	9
Evaluation of the Performance of Two Nomograms and Four Vault Prediction Formulas for Implantable Collamer Lens Size Selection	9
Visual Quality, Patient Satisfaction, and Photic Phenomena With a Diffractive Intraocular Lens and Its New Evolved Materials Version	8
New Nitinol-based Thermomechanically Adjustable IOL Technology	8
Peripheral Refraction and Contrast Detection Sensitivity in Pseudophakic Patients Implanted With a New Meniscus Intraocular Lens	8
Evaluation of Perception of Photic Phenomena Through Diffractive Multifocal Intraocular Lens Designs by Its Virtual Implantation	8
Visual Outcomes According to Age After Bilateral Implantation of Trifocal Intraocular Lenses	8
Longitudinal Evaluation of Biomechanical Indices in Fellow Eyes of Patients With Keratoconus Classified as Having Very Asymmetric Ectasia With Normal Topography	8
Efficacy and Safety After Toric Posterior Chamber Implantable Collamer Lens and Toric Iris-Fixated Foldable Phakic Intraocular Lens for Myopic Astigmatism	8
Reply: On the Need for Standardizing What We Actually Mean by ORA	8
The Effect of Eyelid Laxity on Corneal Mapping and Corneal Topography	8
Repeatability and Agreement of a New Scheimpflug Device and a Hartmann-Shack Aberrometer With a Ray-Tracing Aberrometer in Normal, Keratoconus, and CXL Groups	8
Keratometry Agreement Between Two Swept-Source OCT Devices in Healthy and Post-refractive Surgery Eyes	8
Keratorefractive Lenticule Extraction for Myopia and Myopic Astigmatism With the VISUMAX 800: 6-Month Outcomes of a Prospective Multi-center Post-market Clinical Follow-up Study	8
Quantitative Analysis of Posterior Staphyloma Using Foveal Angulation: Relationship to Leftover Astigmatism in Pseudophakic Eyes	8
The Most Cited Modern Articles in Refractive Surgery (2010–2020)	8
Clarifying Laser Dose Terminology in Ophthalmology	8
Use of Preexisting ICRS Tunnels for Implantation of CAIRS Following ICRS Migration and Corneal Tissue Necrosis: A Case Report	8
Visual Outcomes After Bilateral Implantation of a Trifocal Intraocular Lens Pairing Two Complementary Optic Light Distributions	8
12-Month Visual and Refractive Outcomes of Topography-guided Femtosecond Laser–Assisted LASIK for Myopia and Myopic Astigmatism	7
The Impact of Different Rose Bengal Formulations on Corneal Thickness and the Efficacy of Rose Bengal/Green Light Corneal Cross-linking in the Rabbit Eye	7
Anterior Segment Characteristics Changes After Implantable Collamer Lens V4c in Low Anterior Chamber Depth Eyes: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study	7
Clarification of Femtosecond Laser Terminology: Energy, Fluence, Dose	7
Comparing Effective Optical Zones After Myopic Ablation Between LASIK, PRK, and SMILE With Correlation to Higher Order Aberrations	7
Higher Order Aberrations Induced by Light Adjustable Lens Treatment	7
Biomechanical Evaluation of Topographically and Tomographically Normal Fellow Eyes of Patients With Keratoconus	7
EVO+ Implantable Collamer Lens KS-aquaPORT Location, Stability, and Impact on Quality of Vision and Life	7
Femtosecond Laser Flap-in-Flap Technique for Correction of Post-LASIK Myopic Regression	7
Outcomes of LASIK for Myopic Astigmatism Using a 1,050-Hz Excimer Laser and Seven-Dimensional Eye Tracker	7
Assessing Eye Movement Dynamics and Fixation Stability Between Eyes During Same-Session Bilateral LASIK	7
Erratum for “Corneal Biomechanical Alterations in Eyes After Radial Keratotomy Compared With Keratoconus”	7
Determinants of Subjective Quality of Vision After Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation	7
Rotational Stability of a New Progressive Toric Hydrophobic Intraocular Lens With Gradually Decreasing Cylinder Power	7
Intraoperative Factors Affecting Visual Recovery Following Hyperopic LASIK	7
Flap Loss in More Than 1 Million LASIK Procedures: Incidence, Management, and Visual Outcomes	7
Reply: Efficacy of Enhanced Monofocal Intraocular Lens in Eyes With High Hyperopia	6
Recurrence and Visual Outcomes of Phototherapeutic Keratectomy in Lattice Corneal Dystrophy: A Cohort Study	6
Performance of the First Spiral Refractive Intraocular Lens for Continuous Full Range of Vision	6
Optical Assessment and Expected Visual Quality of Four Extended Range of Vision Intraocular Lenses	6
Optical Differentiation of Presbyopia-Correcting Intraocular Lenses With Improved Intermediate Vision From a Single Manufacturer	6
Leftover Astigmatism: The Missing Link Between Measured and Calculated Posterior Corneal Astigmatism	6
Efficacy of Enhanced Monofocal Intraocular Lens in Eyes With High Hyperopia	6
Refractive Surgery Patient Characteristics Associated With Satisfaction Scores	6
Embracing Independence: A New Chapter for the International Society of Refractive Surgery	6
Enhancing the Automated Detection of Implantable Collamer Lens Vault Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Synthetic Data on Optical Coherence Tomography	6
Influence of the Reference Center on the Calculation of Corneal Higher Order Aberrations	6
Efficacy Comparison Between Toric Posterior Chamber Phakic IOL and Posterior Chamber Phakic IOL Plus Modified Steep Meridian Corneal Relaxing Incision for Moderate to High Astigmatism Corrections	6
Three-Year Outcomes of Under-flap Stromal Bed CXL for Early Post-LASIK Ectasia	6
Prospective, Randomized, Contralateral Eye Comparison of the Lenticule Decentration Following SMILE: Coaxially Sighted Corneal Light Reflex Versus Tear Film Mark Centration	6
Ray-tracing Analysis of Accommodation and Pseudoaccommodation in Phakic and Pseudophakic Eyes	6
Reply: Does Phorcides Software Yield Inferior Topography-guided LASIK Accuracy Versus Targeting the Manifest Astigmatism?	6
Efficacy and Safety of Implantable Collamer Lens V4c Implantation in 1,834 Myopic Eyes for 1 Year of Follow-up	6
Topography-guided LASIK With Phorcides Yields Inferior Outcomes Compared to Wavefront-Optimized LASIK	6
Bias That Should Be Avoided to Obtain a Reliable Study of IOL Power Calculation After Myopic Refractive Surgery	6
Accuracy of the Preoperative Predicted Percentage of Tissue Altered Calculation in Refractive Surgery Planning for Myopic LASIK	6
Prospective Fellow-Eye Comparison of a Spherical Monofocal and an Enhanced Monofocal Intraocular Lens in Intermediate and Near Vision	6
Porcine Collagen Implants in Advanced Keratoconus: Outcomes at 1 Year	5
Spherical Aberration of Cataractous Eyes and Its Relationship With Age, Ocular Biometry, and Various IOL Platforms	5
Effects of Chilled Saline Irrigation on SMILE Surgery	5
The Non-uniform Distribution of Horizontal and Vertical Crystalline Lens Rise Using Optical Coherence Tomography	5
The Importance of a Correct Preliminary Sample Size Calculation to Have Reliable Results in Astigmatism Analysis Studies	5
Refractive Outcomes After Scleral Fixation of the Carlevale Intraocular Lens	5
Factors Predicting Slow Visual Recovery Following Hyperopic LASIK	5
In-the-Bag Behavior of a New Aspheric Hydrophobic Acrylic Toric Intraocular Lens	5
Comparison of Visual Outcomes and Optical Quality of Femtosecond Laser–Assisted SMILE and Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL V4c) Implantation for Moderate to High Myopia: A Meta-analysis	5
Comparison of Anterior Segment Measurements With a New Swept-source Optical Coherence Tomography Biometer and a Scheimpflug-Placido Topographer	5
Extracorporeal Optimization of Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments (ECO-CAIRS) Using Ultra-high-Fluence Corneal Cross-linking	5
Quantifying Age-Related Anterior and Posterior Corneal Astigmatism Relationships: Insights for IOL Calculators and Topography-Guided LASIK Protocols	5
Comparison of Changes in Corneal Thickness and Curvature After Myopia Correction Between SMILE and FS-LASIK	5
Impact and Correction of an Anterior Phakic Intraocular Lens on Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Biometry	5
Vector Planning and Ocular Residual Astigmatism (ORA) Source Reference and Other KLEx Studies	5
The Impact of Epithelial Remodeling on Surgical Techniques Used in Topography-guided Surface Ablation in Irregular Corneas	5
Correlation Between Markers of Epithelial Behavior Derived From OCT and Topographic Inferior-Superior Asymmetry	5
Prospective Comparison of Clinical Outcomes After Bilateral Implantation of Diffractive Trifocal Extended Depth-of-Focus and Diffractive Trifocal Hydrophobic Intraocular Lenses	5

Assessing the Efficacy of Four Diagnostic Devices and Four Nomograms in Posterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lens Size Selection	5
Reply: Vector Planning and Ocular Residual Astigmatism (ORA) Source Reference and Other KLEx Studies	5
Assessment of the Efficacy of Restoring Reading Performance After Refractive Lens Exchange With a Trifocal Intraocular Lens	5
Erratum for “Objective and Subjective Quality of Vision After SMILE for High Myopia and Astigmatism”	5
Clinical Outcomes of a Refractive Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lens	5