OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Acta Neurochirurgica 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
SARS-CoV-2 can induce brain and spine demyelinating lesions	271
Chronic subdural hematoma—incidence, complications, and financial impact	72
COVID-19-associated meningoencephalitis complicated with intracranial hemorrhage: a case report	71
Augmented reality navigation in spine surgery: a systematic review	59
A snapshot of European neurosurgery December 2019 vs. March 2020: just before and during the Covid-19 pandemic	50
Machine learning in neurosurgery: a global survey	49
COVID-19 and neurosurgical training and education: an Italian perspective	49
Surgical management for large vestibular schwannomas: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section	48
Consensus statement from the international consensus meeting on post-traumatic cranioplasty	43
Awake vs. asleep motor mapping for glioma resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	41
Biportal endoscopic unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy	37
Brain connectomics applied to oncological neuroscience: from a traditional surgical strategy focusing on glioma topography to a meta-network approach	33
Neurosurgery and coronavirus: impact and challenges—lessons learnt from the first wave of a global pandemic	33
Need for ensuring care for neuro-emergencies—lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Survival of glioblastoma in relation to tumor location: a statistical tumor atlas of a population-based cohort	32
Modified far lateral endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion using a biportal endoscopic approach: technical report and preliminary results	30
Clinical applications of the endoscopic transorbital approach for various lesions	30
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis 2 weeks after the first dose of mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine	29
Petroclival meningiomas: update of current treatment and consensus by the EANS skull base section	29
The slope of the learning curve in 600 consecutive endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgeries	29
Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders in neurosurgery: a systematic review	29
Procedures performed during neurosurgery residency in Europe	29
Compliance of the cerebrospinal space: comparison of three methods	28
Neurosurgical simulator for training aneurysm microsurgery—a user suitability study involving neurosurgeons and residents	28
Intensive care of traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in Helsinki during the Covid-19 pandemic	28

Ten-year follow-up after Gamma Knife radiosurgery of meningioma and review of the literature	28
Beyond magnification and illumination: preliminary clinical experience with the 4K 3D ORBEYE™ exoscope and a literature review	28
Incidence of chronic subdural haematoma: a single-centre exploration of the effects of an ageing population with a review of the literature	27
Origin of intracranial pressure pulse waveform	27
Monitor-based exoscopic 3D4k neurosurgical interventions: a two-phase prospective-randomized clinical evaluation of a novel hybrid device	27