OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ultrasonography is 16. 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
Ultrasonographic atlas of splenic lesions	34
Utility of fusion imaging for the evaluation of ultrasound quality in hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance	34
Endoscopic ultrasonography is useful for predicting perforation in the endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal tumors originating from the muscularis propria: a retrospective case-control study	34
Optic nerve sheath diameter, strain ratio, and shear wave elastography	32
The efficiency of contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) combined with EUS elastography for pancreatic cancer diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
A comparison of the diagnostic performance of the O-RADS, RMI4, IOTA LR2, and IOTA SR systems by senior and junior doctors	21
Accuracy of the ultrasound attenuation coefficient for the evaluation of hepatic steatosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	20
Comparison of ultrasound-detected and undetected hepatocellular carcinomas: a <i>post-hoc</i>, subgroup analysis from the MAGNUS-HCC surveillance trial	20
The role of Doppler ultrasonography in the detection and management of nutcracker syndrome	19
Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of solitary hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer: risk factors of local tumor progression-free survival and overall survival	19
Quantitative analysis using intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound in adult-type diffuse gliomas with isocitrate dehydrogenase mutations: association between hemodynamics and molecular features	18
Predicting the chemotherapeutic response of colorectal cancer liver metastasis using shear-wave elastography	18
Agreement of shear wave and strain elastography according to the size of the region of interest: a study of epidermal cysts	17
A prospective comparison of two ultrasound attenuation imaging modes using different frequencies for assessing hepatic steatosis	17
Relationship between endometriosis and uterine cervical elasticity assessed using ultrasound strain elastography	16
Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasonography for noninvasive imaging diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: special emphasis on the 2022 KLCA-NCC guideline	16
Assessment of thyroid-specific quality of life in patients with benign symptomatic thyroid nodules treated with radiofrequency or ethanol ablation: a prospective multicenter study	16