OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neurosurgical Focus is 28. 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 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Tractography and the connectome in neurosurgical treatment of gliomas: the premise, the progress, and the potential	72
Advanced neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury: an overview	58
Trends in United States neurosurgery residency education and training over the last decade (2009–2019)	58
Middle meningeal artery embolization treatment of nonacute subdural hematomas in the elderly: a multiinstitutional experience of 151 cases	53
The current state of electrocorticography-based brain–computer interfaces	52
Limitations of functional neuroimaging for patient selection and surgical planning in glioma surgery	48
Comprehensive review of imaging of intracranial aneurysms and angiographically negative subarachnoid hemorrhage	43
Autonomic dysfunction following traumatic brain injury: translational insights	42
Applications of indocyanine green in brain tumor surgery: review of clinical evidence and emerging technologies	42
Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in neurological surgery and neurocritical care	40
Patient-specific 3-dimensionally printed models for neurosurgical planning and education	39
A comparison of publication to TBI burden ratio of low- and middle-income countries versus high-income countries: how can we improve worldwide care of TBI?	38
The impact of African-trained neurosurgeons on sub-Saharan Africa	37
PEEK versus titanium cages in lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a comparative analysis of subsidence	33
The association between lower Hounsfield units on computed tomography and cage subsidence after lateral lumbar interbody fusion	33
Habenula deep brain stimulation for intractable schizophrenia: a pilot study	32
Ambulatory neurosurgery in the COVID-19 era: patient and provider satisfaction with telemedicine	31
Single-position prone lateral approach: cadaveric feasibility study and early clinical experience	31
Reliable navigation registration in cranial and spine surgery based on intraoperative computed tomography	31
Lumbar disc height and vertebral Hounsfield units: association with interbody cage subsidence	31
Mapping cognitive and emotional networks in neurosurgical patients using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging	30
Association of osteopenia and osteoporosis with higher rates of pseudarthrosis and revision surgery in adult patients undergoing single-level lumbar fusion	30
Virtual education in neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Augmented reality and physical hybrid model simulation for preoperative planning of metopic craniosynostosis surgery	29
Progress in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: advocating for stereotactic biopsy in the standard of care	29

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 Re	29
Liquid biopsy for pediatric diffuse midline glioma: a review of circulating tumor DNA and cerebrospinal fluid tumor DNA	29
Informed consent in neurosurgery: a systematic review	28