OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery is 31. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The incidence of chronic subdural hematomas from 1990 to 2015 in a defined Finnish population	79
Correlations between genomic subgroup and clinical features in a cohort of more than 3000 meningiomas	63
Safety and feasibility of multiple blood-brain barrier disruptions for the treatment of glioblastoma in patients undergoing standard adjuvant chemotherapy	61
An artificial intelligence framework for automatic segmentation and volumetry of vestibular schwannomas from contrast-enhanced T1-weighted and high-resolution T2-weighted MRI	58
The relevance of skull density ratio in selecting candidates for transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound	54
Results of a prospective multicenter controlled study comparing surgical outcomes of microscopic versus fully endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas: the Transsphenoi	53
Endoscopic transorbital and endonasal approach for trigeminal schwannomas: a retrospective multicenter analysis (KOSEN-005)	51
The effect of seizure spread to the amygdala on respiration and onset of ictal central apnea	47
Combination of ALA-induced fluorescence-guided resection and intraoperative open photodynamic therapy for recurrent glioblastoma: case series on a promising dual strategy for local tumor control	47
Magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: a 5-year single-center experience	46
Impact of skull density ratio on efficacy and safety of magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound treatment of essential tremor	45
The neurosurgery applicant’s “arms race”: analysis of medical student publication in the Neurosurgery Residency Match	44
The value of visible 5-ALA fluorescence and quantitative protoporphyrin IX analysis for improved surgery of suspected low-grade gliomas	44
Editorial. Impact of COVID-19 on neurosurgery resident training and education	43
Long-term risk of recurrence and regrowth after gross-total and subtotal resection of sporadic vestibular schwannoma	42
The 5-factor modified frailty index: an effective predictor of mortality in brain tumor patients	41
Challenging Knosp high-grade pituitary adenomas	41
Intraoperative MRI versus 5-ALA in high-grade glioma resection: a network meta-analysis	39
Triple motor mapping: transcranial, bipolar, and monopolar mapping for supratentorial glioma resection adjacent to motor pathways	39
Late (5–20 years) outcomes after STA-MCA anastomosis and encephalo-duro-myo-arterio-pericranial synangiosis in patients with moyamoya disease	38
Antithrombotic agents and traumatic brain injury in the elderly population: hemorrhage patterns and outcomes	37
Editorial. Innovations in neurosurgical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: is it time to reexamine our neurosurgical training models?	36
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery strategies for elective craniotomy: a systematic review	35
Invasive neuromonitoring with an extended definition of delayed cerebral ischemia is associated with improved outcome after poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage	34
Meningioma metastases: incidence and proposed screening paradigm	34

Stereotactic radiosurgery with and without checkpoint inhibition for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer to the brain: a matched cohort study	34
Predictive factors of incomplete aneurysm occlusion after endovascular treatment with the Pipeline embolization device	34
Molecular and cellular intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma: clinical and translational implications	33
Oblique trajectory angles in robotic stereo-electroencephalography	32
Is supratotal resection achievable in low-grade gliomas? Feasibility, putative factors, safety, and functional outcome	31
MR-guided focused ultrasound pallidotomy for Parkinson’s disease: safety and feasibility	31
The Simpson grade: abandon the scale but preserve the message	31
Characterizing tumor invasiveness of glioblastoma using multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging	31
Results of 1940 embolizations for dural arteriovenous fistulas: Japanese Registry of Neuroendovascular Therapy (JR-NET3)	31
Accumulated thermal dose in MRI-guided focused ultrasound for essential tremor: repeated sonications with low focal temperatures	31
Effects of clazosentan on cerebral vasospasm–related morbidity and all-cause mortality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: two randomized phase 3 trials in Japanese patients	31