OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Neurochirurgica 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Idiopathic chronic temporal lobe herniation with associated epilepsy	51
Safety analysis and complications of condylar screws in a single-surgeon series of 250 occipitocervical fusions	41
Vertical parasagittal hemispherotomy: a case report of postoperative mesio-temporal seizures via amygdalofugal pathway	41
Hydroxyapatite cement cranioplasty for reconstruction of translabyrinthine approach: aesthetic results, long-term satisfaction, quality of life, and complications	40
Hemodynamic response and clinical outcome following intravenous milrinone plus norepinephrine–based hyperdynamic hypertensive therapy in patients suffering secondary cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal	32
Glioblastoma in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome: first case report and review of potential pathomechanisms	30
The role of microsurgery for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages in the endovascular era	29
Correction to: Integrity of dural closure after autologous platelet rich fibrin augmentation: an in vitro study	27
Impact of C-shaped skin incision on surgical operability in the retrosigmoid approach: when a good start is half of the job	27
A clinicoradiological analysis of silent corticotroph adenomas after the introduction of pituitary-specific transcription factors	26
Brain infarctions after glioma surgery: prevalence, radiological characteristics and risk factors	22
“Omics” in traumatic brain injury: novel approaches to a complex disease	21
Reducing complication rates for repeat craniotomies in glioma patients: a single-surgeon experience and comparison with the literature	21
Ictal onset stereoelectroencephalography patterns in temporal lobe epilepsy: type, distribution, and prognostic value	19
Complications in stereoelectroencephalography: are we too severe?	19
Multiple anterior choroidal arteries and perioperative ischemic complications in unruptured anterior choroidal artery aneurysms treated with microsurgical clipping	19
Risk factors for polyetheretherketone cage subsidence following minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion	18
Response to: Some historical remarks on ipsilateral hemiparesis and the absence of decussation of the pyramidal tracts	18
Super-selective balloon test occlusion with electrophysiological monitoring to occlude angiographically invisible posterior communicating artery perforators with unruptured aneurysm	18
Extent of spinal canal obliteration as prognostic factor for functional outcome in patients with spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma: a retrospective study	18
Dural sac shrinkage signs on magnetic resonance imaging at the thoracic level in spontaneous intracranial hypotension—its clinical significance	16
Intracranial pulse pressure waveform analysis using the higher harmonics centroid	15
Combined use of vancomycin powder and betadine irrigation lowers the incidence of postcraniotomy wound infection in low-risk cases: a single-center risk-stratified cohort analysis	14
Response to letter: “Stereotactic biopsies of brainstem lesions: dilemma on the best trajectory”	14
In reply to “Vascular supplies to the column of the fornix other than the subcallosal artery: median artery of the corpus callosum and posterior choroidal arteries”	14

Surgical treatment of symptomatic pineal cysts without hydrocephalus—meta-analysis of the published literature	14
Combined biportal unilateral endoscopic endonasal and endoscopic anterior transmaxillary approach for resection of lesions involving the infratemporal fossa	14
Feasibility of underwater microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm: a technical note	14
Correction to: Bilateral thoracic disc herniation with abdominal wall paresis: a case report	13
There is more to NPH than lower body Parkinsonism	13
Unstable ventricular tachycardia requiring defibrillation from rapid ventricular pacing during basilar apex aneurysm clipping	13
Customized cost-effective polymethylmethacrylate cranioplasty: a cosmetic comparison with other low-cost methods of cranioplasty	13
Factors which influence the complications of external ventricular cerebrospinal fluid drainage	13
Designing electrode configuration of electroosmosis based edema treatment as a complement to hyperosmotic therapy	12
Distress and quality of life do not change over time in patients with operated and conservatively managed intracranial meningioma	12
Vascular supplies to the column of the fornix other than the subcallosal artery: median artery of the corpus callosum and posterior choroidal arteries	12
Venous sinus thrombosis in traumatic brain injury: a major trauma centre experience	12
Neurosurgical management of petrous bone lesions: classification system and selection of surgical approaches	12
Intracerebral hemorrhage due to vasculitis following COVID-19 vaccination: a case report	12
Surgical management of anterior clinoidal meningiomas: consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section	12
How I do it? Posterior inferior cerebellar artery-intracranial vertebral artery reimplantation bypass and trapping of dissecting aneurysm involving the proximal posterior inferior cerebellar artery	12
Aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage during the COVID-19 outbreak in a Hub and Spoke system: observational multicenter cohort study in Lombardy, Italy	11
Comment: Invasive tests for predicting shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus—the risk aspect	11
Intraoperative findings of abnormal muscle response for hemifacial spasm following botulinum neurotoxin treatment	11
Twist drill craniostomy vs burr hole drainage of chronic subdural hematoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Management of Chiari type I malformation: a retrospective analysis of a series of 91 children treated surgically	10
Fred Gentili, MD, FRCSC (1947–2022): Say it loud, say it clear	10
Correction to: Atypical evolution of meningiomatosis after discontinuation of cyproterone acetate: clinical cases and histomolecular characterization	10
Waiting time for surgery influences the outcome in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus — a population-based study	10
Management of non-vestibular schwannomas in adult patients: a systematic review and consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section Part III: Lower cranial nerve schwannomas, jugular fora	10
Posterior cranial fossa and cervical spine morphometric abnormalities in symptomatic Chiari type 0 and Chiari type 1 malformation patients with and without syringomyelia	10
Myasthenia gravis after glioblastoma resection: paraneoplastic syndrome or coincidence? A unique case report and review of the literature	10
Vagus nerve stimulation: a 20-year Australian experience	9
Diffusional kurtosis imaging as a possible prognostic marker of cervical incomplete spinal cord injury outcome: a prospective pilot study	9
Cervical spine injuries requiring surgery in a Level I trauma centre in a major German city	9
Biportal endoscopic unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy	9
Letter: Response to letter “The exact number of misplacements is essential for the reproducibility of statistical findings by Mansoor et al.” by G. Kerry	9
Impact of subcallosal artery origin and A1 asymmetry on surgical outcomes of anterior communicating artery aneurysms	9
How I do it: surgical resection of ventrolateral pontomesencephalic junction glioma via oculomotor-tentorial triangle	9
Upper limb dysfunction and activities in daily living in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus	9
Long-term mortality in patients with moyamoya angiopathy according to stroke presentation type in South Korea	9
Distribution of electric field in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder treated with deep brain stimulation of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis	9
Alexander A. Potapov MD, PhD (July 5, 1948–May 15, 2021): an intensivist turned neurosurgeon	8
Radiofrequency thermocoagulation of the sulcus bottom in type II focal cortical dysplasia-related epilepsy with tapered implantation of electrodes: a case report	8
The Shape grading system: a classification for growth patterns of pituitary adenomas	8
Extended testing for cognition: has awake brain mapping moved to the next level?	8
Decompression of the greater occipital nerve improves outcome in patients with chronic headache and neck pain — a retrospective cohort study	8
Adaptation of laser interstitial thermal therapy for tumor ablation under MRI monitoring in a rat orthotopic model of glioblastoma	8
Three-dimensional high-definition exoscope (Kestrel View II) in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a valid alternative to operative microscope-assisted surgery	8
International practice variation in perioperative laboratory testing in glioblastoma patients—a retrospective cohort study	8
Revascularization to the ACA: effectiveness and variation of the STA-RAG-A3 bonnet bypass	8
Unreliable claims regarding bicycle helmet law in Western Australia	7
Shunt performance in 349 patients with hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage	7
How I do it? Uniportal full endoscopic pseudoarthrosis release of left L5/S1 Bertolotti’s syndrome under intraoperative computer tomographic guidance in an ambulatory setting	7
Reply to the Letter: Failed back surgery syndrome, a term overdue for replacement	7

Current state of social media utilization in neurosurgery amongst European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) member countries	7
Craniotomies following acute traumatic brain injury in Finland—a national study between 1997 and 2018	7
Letter: “Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow‐up”	7
Stereotactic radiosurgery for clinoid meningiomas: a multi-institutional study	7
Invasive tests for predicting shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: the risk aspect	7
How I do it: horizontal fissure approach to the middle cerebellar peduncle	7
Improvement in neurological outcome and brain hemodynamics after late cranioplasty	6
The impact of ARUBA on the clinical practice of unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations: big data, poor evidence and measuring impact on health policy	6
How I do it: total resection of a giant sphenoclinoidal meningioma with normalization of near blind vision	6
Aggressive pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: current practices, controversies, and perspectives, on behalf of the EANS skull base section	6
Treatment of octogenarians and nonagenarians with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a 17-year institutional analysis	6
Two-step staged resection of giant olfactory groove meningiomas	6
A new uPAR-targeting fluorescent probe for optical guided intracranial surgery in resection of a meningioma—a case report	6
Combined use of multimodal techniques for the resection of glioblastoma involving corpus callosum	6
Robot-assisted stereotactic multiple brain abscesses’ puncture: technical case report	6
Spontaneous angiogram-negative subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective single center cohort study	6
Letter re: The exact number of misplacements is essential for the reproducibility of statistical findings by Mansoor et al.	6
Response to Letter regarding ”Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow-up”	6
A case series of percutaneous transforamen ovale biopsies in cavernous sinus lesions	6
Efficacy of caudal pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation on postural instability and gait disorders in Parkinson’s disease	6
Extradural anterior clinoidectomy through endoscopic transorbital approach: laboratory investigation for surgical perspective	5
Clinical considerations on a right operculo-insular cavernous angioma: an illustrative case	5
Correction to: Diffusional kurtosis imaging as a possible prognostic marker of cervical incomplete spinal cord injury outcome: a prospective pilot study	5
The utility of plasma circulating cell-free messenger RNA as a biomarker of glioma: a pilot study	5
Contralateral sublaminar approach for decompression of the combined lateral recess, foraminal, and extraforaminal lesions using biportal endoscopy: a technical report	5
Head injury care in a low- and middle-income country tertiary trauma center: epidemiology, systemic lacunae, and possible leads	5
Recurrence and risk factors of posterior communicating artery aneurysms after endovascular treatment	5
Is there a variance in complication types associated with ALIF approaches? A systematic review	5
Burr hole craniostomy versus minicraniotomy in chronic subdural hematoma: a comparative cohort study	5
Management of ventriculomegaly in pediatric patients with syndromic craniosynostosis: a single center experience	5
Deep brain stimulation in patients on chronic antiplatelet or anticoagulation treatment	5
Aphasic status epilepticus after glioma resection: two case reports	4
Petrous bone lesions: surgical implementation and outcomes of extradural subtemporal approach	4
External carotid artery to internal carotid artery transposition to augment flow for a superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass associated with severe external carotid artery steno	4
Stereotactic biopsies of brainstem lesions: dilemma on the best trajectory	4
How I do it: endoscopic endonasal approach to the orbital apex	4
Prevalence of incidental meningiomas and gliomas on MRI: a meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis	4
Management of non-vestibular schwannomas in adult patients: a systematic review and consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section Part II: Trigeminal and facial nerve schwannomas (CN V,	4
Uncommon presentations of a neurosurgical site infection: impaired wound healing with hypergranulation and crust formation	4
Genetic alterations associated with malignant transformation of sporadic vestibular schwannoma	4
Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow-up	4
Technological innovation and neurosurgery	4
Ruptured aneurysm arising at anterior spinal artery as the collateral circulation with bulbar artery supply to posterior inferior cerebellar artery treated by proximal occlusion and occipital artery-p	4
A rare case of giant calcified thoracic disc herniation, OPLL and OLF: how I do it	4
Contextualization of post-operative mini-strokes in glioma surgery	4
Psychooncological distress in low-grade glioma patients—a monocentric study	4
Pretreatment patient-reported cognitive function in patients with diffuse glioma	4
The foramen ovale “mirage” and how this impacts percutaneous cannulation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: a report of two cases	4
Robotic-assisted percutaneous iliac screw fixation for destructive lumbosacral metastatic lesions: an early single-institution experience	4
Atypical evolution of meningiomatosis after discontinuation of cyproterone acetate: clinical cases and histomolecular characterization	4