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Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Urology is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anorectal side-effects of radical cystectomy	36
Does a new ‘pigtail suture stent’ reduce stent-related symptoms?	22
Predictors for complication in renal cancer surgery: a national register study	19
Urinary stone assessment in a single-phase may replace the unenhanced and multiphase computed tomography protocol in painless visible haematuria	17
Improved adherence to prostate cancer guidelines concomitant with public reporting. Nationwide population-based study	16
A population-based retrospective analysis on variation in use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy depending on comorbidity in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer undergoing cystectomy in Denmark in t	14
Taking the temperature: a case of urethral polyembolokoilamania	14
Early and late surgical complications following living donor nephrectomy	11
Control computerized tomography in neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle invasive urinary bladder cancer has no value for treatment decisions and low correlation with nodal status	10
Kidney tumor biopsy – an unmet need for personalized treatment	10
Biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy – a large, comprehensive, population-based study with long follow-up	10
Optimal intervals for follow-up cystoscopy in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: a systematic review regarding oncological safety	10
Adjuvant checkpoint inhibition after cystectomy – why, when, and for whom?	10
Transurethral versus open enucleation of the prostate in Sweden – a retrospective comparative cohort study	10
Sterile water injections for management of renal colic pain: a systematic review	10
Primary mucosal melanomas of the urogenital tract: a clinical, pathological, and genetic nationwide survey of Danish patients 1990–2019	9
Prediction of clinically significant recurrence after partial nephrectomy. Data from the Cancer Registry of Norway with more than five years of follow-up	8
Do not throw out the baby with the bath water	8
Community-onset urosepsis: incidence and risk factors for 30-day mortality – a retrospective cohort study	8
Surgical waiting times and all-cause mortality in patients with non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma	7
The cancer stigma – the importance of nomenclature	7
Personalized medicine for bladder cancer	7
Abandoning testing for asymptomatic microscopic haematuria in Sweden – a long-term follow-up	6
Doppler ultrasound improves diagnostic accuracy for testicular torsion	6
UROSCAN and UROSCANSEQ: a large-scale multicenter effort towards translation of molecular bladder cancer subtypes into clinical practice – from biobank to RNA-sequencing in real time	6

Prospective validation study of a combined urine and plasma test for predicting high-grade prostate cancer in biopsy naïve men	6
3D laparoscopic prostatectomy: results of multicentre study	6
A population-based registry cohort study on the correlation between bladder-intact event-free survival and overall survival in cystectomy-ineligible/refusal muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients in	5
A new important tool to report and analyse adverse incidents that all urologists should use Editorial comment to: Nisen H, Erkkilä K, Ettala O, Ronkainen H, et al. Intraoperative complications in kidn	5
Surgical experience is predictive for bladder tumour resection quality	5
Evaluation of the relation between size of stone and its attenuation measured by Hounsfield units and the total laser energy required to fragment it	5
Quadratus lumborum block is feasible alternative to epidural block for postoperative analgesia after open radical cystectomy: surgical and oncological outcomes of a randomised clinical trial	5
Feasibility and efficacy of early docetaxel plus androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in a rural health care setting	5
Welcome to the new Scandinavian Journal of Urology!	5
Fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli among the rectal flora is the predominant risk factor for severe infection after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: a prospective observational s	5
Endoureterotomy with the Lovaco technique for treatment of ureterointestinal strictures: outcomes in an experienced center and factors associated with procedural success or failure	5
Sauna habits/bathing and changes in lower urinary tract symptoms – Tampere Ageing Male Urologic Study (TAMUS)	5
Recurrence of non-muscle invasive bladder carcinoma after transurethral resection with hexaminolevulinate photodynamic diagnosis or regular cystoscopy	5
Surgeon volume and patient-reported urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy. Population-based register study in Sweden	5
Impact of ischemia time during partial nephrectomy on short- and long-term renal function	5
The Swedish prostate cancer guidelines: response to Axcrona and Löffeler	4
Low-volume grade group 2 prostate cancer candidates for active surveillance: a radical prostatectomy retrospective analysis	4
S-phase – an independent prognostic marker in upper tract urothelial carcinoma	4
The risk of inguinal hernia repair after radical prostatectomy – a population-based cohort study	4
Temperature profiles during ureteroscopy with thulium fiber laser and holmium:YAG laser: Findings from a pre-clinical study	4
Sterile water injections – a treatment for renal colic when other painkillers are contraindicated?	4
The clinical consequences of routine ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT in patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer, ISUP grade 5 and no metastases based on standard imaging – preliminary results	4
The effect of povidone-iodine rectal cleansing on post-biopsy infectious complications	4
Incidence of erectile dysfunction treatment after radical prostatectomy by Statin use in Finnish Nationwide Cohort Study	4
The role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the 8q24 chromosome region in patients with concomitant bladder and prostate cancer	4
How to survey adherence to guidelines by use of clinical cancer registers	4
Evaluation of data quality in the Swedish National Penile Cancer Register	4