OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine is 24. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Letter to the Editor. ChatGPT and the treatment of cervical radiculopathy	108
Letter to the Editor. Preoperative depression among patients undergoing spine surgery	65
Treatment of conus medullaris arteriovenous malformation: the role of microsurgical treatment	57
Surgical outcomes of patients who fail to reach minimal clinically important differences: comparison of minimally invasive versus open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion	56
Female authorship trends in high-impact spine surgery journals	52
Complication rate evolution across a 10-year enrollment period of a prospective multicenter database	44
The status of spine surgery in social media platforms: a call to action	42
Stereotactic radiosurgery for prostate cancer spine metastases: local control and fracture risk using a simultaneous integrated boost approach	35
Postoperative opioid prescription and patient-reported outcomes after elective spine surgery: a Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative study	33
The declining incidence of cervical spine surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a single-surgeon series and literature review	31
Evaluating alternatives to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for assessing bone quality in patients undergoing spine surgery	30
A guide to finite element analysis models of the spine for clinicians	30
Correlation of antithrombotic medication use with lower incidence of postoperative dysphagia following anterior cervical spine surgery	30
Letter to the Editor. Rethinking the gold standard: limitations and implications for validation processes	30
Differences in the rate of distal junctional problems between L3 and L4 pedicle subtraction osteotomy	30
Editorial. Paraspinal musculature and bone quality: the answer to the mode of proximal junctional kyphosis	29
Do all patients with adult scoliosis need instrumented fusion from T10 to the pelvis?	28
Spinal oligodendroglioma: a > 70-year systematic review of current literature	27
Graft subsidence and reoperation after lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a propensity score–matched and cost analysis of polyetheretherketone versus 3D-printed porous titanium interbodies	27
Use of global sagittal flexibility to predict proximal junctional kyphosis after spinal deformity surgery	27
The prognostic role of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, and systemic immune-inflammation index on short- and long-term outcome following surgery for spinal metastases	26
Independent predictors of vertebral compression fracture following radiation for metastatic spine disease	26
Full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy for lumbar disc herniation in young adults: 199 consecutive cases treated by a single surgeon with a mean 3.7-year follow-up	26
Ten-year safety of pluripotent stem cell transplantation in acute thoracic spinal cord injury	26
Urinary control in cervical myelopathy: does it improve postsurgery? A Quality Outcomes Database study	24

Vertebral bone quality score provides preoperative bone density assessment for patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery: a retrospective study	24
Erratum. Creation and validation of a predictive model for lumbar synovial cyst recurrence following decompression without fusion	24
Association of age-adjusted pelvic incidence minus lumbar lordosis correction with long-term radiographic and clinical outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery	24
Letter to the Editor. Introducing the horizontal lumbar skin incision for open triangular spinopelvic fixation	24
Safety and feasibility of intramedullary injected bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cells in acute complete spinal cord injury: phase 1 trial	24