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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of applicants and matriculants to neurological surgery residency programs	65
Association of calcium channel blockers with lower incidence of intracranial aneurysm rupture and growth in hypertensive patients	54
The critical need to address gender inequities in resident feedback and ensure equitable education for all trainees in neurosurgical training	49
The Device for Intraventricular Entry guide: a novel solution to a perpetual problem	48
Letter to the Editor. ALA in the treatment of glioblastoma	48
Troubleshooting the bypass: intraoperative management of initially failed anastomosis in direct cerebral revascularization surgery	45
Long-term oncological outcomes for endoscopic endonasal versus open surgical approaches for anatomically matched, locally advanced stage T4 sinonasal malignancies with skull base involvement	45
Pipeline embolization device dynamics: prediction of incomplete occlusion by elongation from nominal length	43
Letter to the Editor. Small deep white matter cuts, big disconnections	42
Letter to the Editor. Sophisticated data acquisition and analytics in neurosurgery: beneficial but expect challenges	40
Primary rhombencephalopathy: introduction of a new paradigm for the evaluation and management of craniocervical hindbrain pathology	38
Predictive value of intraoperative vagus nerve corticobulbar motor evoked potentials to assess the risk of dysphagia in fourth ventricle surgery	38
Distribution of osteoprotegerin in unruptured intracranial aneurysms in humans: association with aneurysm wall protective remodeling	38
Risk factors for wound dehiscence after surgery for epilepsy	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?	34
Internal neurolysis versus intraoperative glycerin rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia	34
Visual deterioration secondary to medial sphenoid wing meningioma: systematic assessment of patient-reported outcomes and factors contributing to recovery after surgical treatment	33
Extra-axial endoscopic third ventriculostomy: preliminary experience with a technique to circumvent conventional endoscopic third ventriculostomy complications	33
The risk of intraoperative venous air embolism from neurosurgical procedures performed in the lounging position: an in-depth analysis of detection, management, and outcomes of 1000 consecutive cases	32
Letter to the Editor. Remission of acromegaly after transsphenoidal surgery	32
Norwegian translation of the Mayo Clinic Vestibular Schwannoma Quality of Life Index	32
Editorial. Margie Shreve and the Journal of Neurosurgery: "May it be said, ‘Well done.’"	31
Genomic alterations associated with postoperative nodular leptomeningeal disease after resection of brain metastases	31
Leading medical schools for female neurosurgery graduates	31
Role of resective surgery in patients older than 60 years with therapy-resistant epilepsy	30

The influence of tumor topography on the surgical outcome of craniopharyngiomas	30
Noninvasive disconnection of targeted neuronal circuitry sparing axons of passage and nonneuronal cells	30
Monopolar stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation	28
Anterior choroidal artery aneurysms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes and ischemic complications following surgical and endovascular treatment	28
Letter to the Editor. The utility of preoperative scores for predicting outcomes after MVD for trigeminal neuralgia	28