OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BJS Open is 27. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital technology in informed consent for surgery: systematic review	120
Ultra-early initiation of postoperative rehabilitation in the post-anaesthesia care unit after major thoracic surgery: case–control study	63
Surgeons’ choice for rectal cancer treatment if they were a patient	61
Effect of transversus abdominis plane blocks in abdominoplasties on postoperative outcomes	51
Comment on: Population preference for treatment of uncomplicated appendicitis	44
The PERCEIVE quantitative study: PrEdiction of Risk and Communication of outcome following major lower-limb amputation: protocol for a collaboratiVE study	43
Prophylactic mesh augmentation after laparotomy for elective and emergency surgery: meta-analysis	41
Colonic resection and stoma formation due to chronic diverticular disease: nationwide population-based cohort study	40
Establishment and external validation of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in excluding postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatoduodenectomy	40
Perioperative characteristics and short-term morbidity after surgery for renal hyperparathyroidism: multicentre EUROCRINE® registry study	38
Fluorescence-guided surgery: comprehensive review	34
Tumour origin, diagnostic accuracy and histopathological evaluation in patients with periampullary cancer: nationwide cohort study	33
Post-thyroid surgery adhesion prevention using oxidized regenerated cellulose and hyaluronic acid: prospective, single-blinded, randomized study	31
Association of hypothyroidism with survival in pancreatic cancer: retrospective cohort study	31
Erratum to: Quality of reporting of robot-assisted cholecystectomy in relation to the IDEAL recommendations: systematic review	30
Economic cost-utility analysis of stage-directed oesophageal cancer treatment	30
Renal failure as a complication of defunctioning ileostomy: more complexity to a complex decision-making process	30
Hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery	29
Impact of perioperative α1-antagonists on postoperative urinary retention in orthopaedic surgery: meta-analysis	29
Correction: Surgical treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma: retrospective analysis	29
Organ-specific malperfusion in acute type A aortic dissection: epidemiological meta-analysis of incidence rates	28
Modified artery-first approach for distal pancreatectomy with celiac axis resection	28
Effects of the superior mesenteric artery approach versus the no-touch approach during pancreatoduodenectomy on the mobilization of circulating tumour cells and clusters in pancreatic cancer (C	28
Association of anaemia, co-morbidities and red blood cell transfusion according to age groups: multicentre sub-analysis of the German Patient Blood Management Network Registry	27
Artificial intelligence model for perigastric blood vessel recognition during laparoscopic radical gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy in locally advanced gastric cancer	27

Population-based nationwide incidence of complications after gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma in Finland	27
Rate of stoma formation following damage-control surgery for severe intra-abdominal sepsis: a single-centre consecutive case series	27
Effect of radiotherapy on long-term quality of life in recurrence-free rectal cancer survivors (LaTE study): nationwide inverse probability of treatment-weighted registry-based cohort study and survey	27