OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Thoracic Disease is 25. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pain control after thoracic surgery begins in the operating room	81
Mediastinal staging by thoracic surgeons: are we close to a paradigm shift?	52
Mitral valve repair using a semi-rigid posterior band: a 10-year Japanese single-center experience of 244 patients	51
Cough Focused Series: progress in understanding and management of chronic cough	50
Persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation—is ethanol the solution or just another means to an end?	49
The influence of novel coronavirus pneumonia on chronic disease management of asthma—a narrative review	44
Prediction of ipsilateral and contralateral pneumothorax using a simple chest X-ray	36
T4-non-small cell lung cancer invading the thoracic aorta: the role of the hybrid operating room	34
Reintervention after percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy in patients with rheumatic heart disease: feasibility of surgical mitral valve repair	34
Effects of preoperative Staphylococcus aureus screening and targeted decolonization bundle protocols in cardiac surgery: a nine-year review of a regional cardiovascular center in China	33
Derivation and external validation of a nomogram predicting the occurrence of severe illness among hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients: a 2020 Chinese multicenter retrospective study	32
P3H1 promotes malignant progression of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and modulates the immune microenvironment	32
Robotic-assisted thymectomy for locally advanced thymic malignancy: technical refinement and oncologic outcomes from a 20-year cohort	32
Development of a scoring system based on a nomogram to identify malignant pleural effusion	32
The role of the stapled interlobar fissure position for intraoperative detection and postoperative diagnosis of middle lobe torsion after right upper lobectomy	31
Development and validation of a nomogram for incorporating 18F-FDG PET/CT spleen uptake for predicting prognosis in elderly esophageal cancer patients treated with radiotherapy	31
A nomogram for preoperative prediction of invasiveness in solitary pulmonary adenocarcinoma: a multicenter study	31
Association of systemic inflammatory markers and tertiary lymphoid structures with pathological complete response in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma receiving preoperative treatment: a retr	30
Circulating tumor DNA in lung cancer: a bibliometric analysis of studies published from 2001 to 2024	30
Association of stress hyperglycemia ratio with clinical outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus in intensive care units: a retrospective study	29
Impact of obstructive sleep apnea severity and treatment on COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune responses	28
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery resection of subsolid or millimetric nodules using an innovative micro-coil technique: our experience	27
Association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the risk of pulmonary nodules in patients with intestinal polyps	27
Role of PLEKHA7 in promoting radioresistance in esophageal cancer cells via the inhibition of cuproptosis	26
Efficacy evaluation of tyrosine kinase inhibitors for advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients with leptomeningeal metastasis	26

Yanghepingchuan granule improves airway inflammation by inhibiting autophagy via miRNA328-3p/high mobility group box 1/Toll-like receptor 4 targeting of the pathway of signaling in rat models of asthm	25
The role of bronchoscopy in the multidisciplinary approach to benign tracheal stenosis	25
CT-based radiomics and intratumoral heterogeneity for predicting benign and malignant lesions in solid pulmonary nodules	25