OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery is 28. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Letter to the Editor. ALA in the treatment of glioblastoma	87
The Device for Intraventricular Entry guide: a novel solution to a perpetual problem	65
Troubleshooting the bypass: intraoperative management of initially failed anastomosis in direct cerebral revascularization surgery	57
Primary rhombencephalopathy: introduction of a new paradigm for the evaluation and management of craniocervical hindbrain pathology	56
Letter to the Editor. The utility of preoperative scores for predicting outcomes after MVD for trigeminal neuralgia	56
Leading medical schools for female neurosurgery graduates	54
Visual deterioration secondary to medial sphenoid wing meningioma: systematic assessment of patient-reported outcomes and factors contributing to recovery after surgical treatment	50
Norwegian translation of the Mayo Clinic Vestibular Schwannoma Quality of Life Index	48
Development and validation of a radiomics–visual evoked potential nomogram for preoperative prediction of visual outcome after endoscopic craniopharyngioma resection	43
Risk factors for wound dehiscence after surgery for epilepsy	40
Letter to the Editor. Remission of acromegaly after transsphenoidal surgery	39
Editorial. Margie Shreve and the Journal of Neurosurgery: "May it be said, ‘Well done.’"	38
Letter to the Editor. Sophisticated data acquisition and analytics in neurosurgery: beneficial but expect challenges	37
Pipeline embolization device dynamics: prediction of incomplete occlusion by elongation from nominal length	37
Noninvasive disconnection of targeted neuronal circuitry sparing axons of passage and nonneuronal cells	36
Genomic alterations associated with postoperative nodular leptomeningeal disease after resection of brain metastases	35
Use of fluorescein sodium–assisted intraoperative sample validation to maximize the diagnostic yield of stereotactic brain biopsy: progress toward a new standard of care?	35
Letter to the Editor. Small deep white matter cuts, big disconnections	35
The influence of tumor topography on the surgical outcome of craniopharyngiomas	33
Association of calcium channel blockers with lower incidence of intracranial aneurysm rupture and growth in hypertensive patients	32
Comprehensive characterization of intracranial hemorrhage in deep brain stimulation: a systematic review of literature from 1987 to 2023	31
Damaging a few millimeters of the deep white matter tracts during glioma surgery may result in a large-scale brain disconnection	31
Long-term outcomes after surgery for brainstem cavernous malformations: analysis of 46 consecutive cases	31
Predictive value of intraoperative vagus nerve corticobulbar motor evoked potentials to assess the risk of dysphagia in fourth ventricle surgery	30
Monopolar stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation	30

Anterior choroidal artery aneurysms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes and ischemic complications following surgical and endovascular treatment	29
The effect of patient age on the degree of midline shift caused by chronic subdural hematomas: a volumetric analysis	29
Preoperative white matter network organization and memory decline after epilepsy surgery	28
Racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of applicants and matriculants to neurological surgery residency programs	28
Intraarterial encephalography from an acutely implanted aneurysm embolization device in awake humans	28
Letter to the Editor. Stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernous malformations: does it beat the natural history?	28