Neurosurgical Focus

Papers
(The H4-Index of Neurosurgical Focus 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tractography and the connectome in neurosurgical treatment of gliomas: the premise, the progress, and the potential80
Trends in United States neurosurgery residency education and training over the last decade (2009–2019)66
Middle meningeal artery embolization treatment of nonacute subdural hematomas in the elderly: a multiinstitutional experience of 151 cases60
The current state of electrocorticography-based brain–computer interfaces58
Limitations of functional neuroimaging for patient selection and surgical planning in glioma surgery50
Applications of indocyanine green in brain tumor surgery: review of clinical evidence and emerging technologies48
The impact of African-trained neurosurgeons on sub-Saharan Africa39
The association between lower Hounsfield units on computed tomography and cage subsidence after lateral lumbar interbody fusion38
Single-position prone lateral approach: cadaveric feasibility study and early clinical experience37
Lumbar disc height and vertebral Hounsfield units: association with interbody cage subsidence36
Ambulatory neurosurgery in the COVID-19 era: patient and provider satisfaction with telemedicine35
Augmented reality and physical hybrid model simulation for preoperative planning of metopic craniosynostosis surgery35
Virtual education in neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic34
PEEK versus titanium cages in lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a comparative analysis of subsidence34
Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012–2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care and evolution to the American Spine Re34
Habenula deep brain stimulation for intractable schizophrenia: a pilot study34
Mapping cognitive and emotional networks in neurosurgical patients using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging33
Virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a turning point in neurosurgical education33
Augmented reality–assisted ventriculostomy32
Association of osteopenia and osteoporosis with higher rates of pseudarthrosis and revision surgery in adult patients undergoing single-level lumbar fusion32
The Neurosurgical Atlas: advancing neurosurgical education in the digital age30
Magnetic resonance imaging–based synthetic computed tomography of the lumbar spine for surgical planning: a clinical proof-of-concept30
Informed consent in neurosurgery: a systematic review29
The role of frailty in geriatric cranial neurosurgery for primary central nervous system neoplasms29
Frailty predicts worse outcomes after intracranial meningioma surgery irrespective of existing prognostic factors28
Robot-assisted stereoelectroencephalography exploration of the limbic thalamus in human focal epilepsy: implantation technique and complications in the first 24 patients27
Increases in female academic productivity and female mentorship highlight sustained progress in previously identified neurosurgical gender disparities27
Neurosurgery training in India during the COVID-19 pandemic: straight from the horse’s mouth27
First in-human report of the clinical accuracy of thoracolumbar percutaneous pedicle screw placement using augmented reality guidance27
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