OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Neurochirurgica is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Idiopathic chronic temporal lobe herniation with associated epilepsy	48
Some historical remarks on ipsilateral hemiparesis and the absence of decussation of the pyramidal tracts	39
Comparing health-related quality of life in modified Rankin Scale grades: 15D results from 323 patients with brain arteriovenous malformation and population controls	38
Intraoperative facial nerve electromyography parameters to optimize postoperative facial nerve outcome in patients with large unilateral vestibular schwannoma	37
Depression and ability to work after vestibular schwannoma surgery: a nationwide registry-based matched cohort study on antidepressants, sedatives, and sick leave	37
Patient functional outcomes and quality of life after surgery for unruptured brain arteriovenous malformation	34
Surgically generated aerosol and mitigation strategies: combined use of irrigation, respirators and suction massively reduces particulate matter aerosol	32
Stereotactic biopsies of brainstem lesions: dilemma on the best trajectory	29
Neurosurgical management of petrous bone lesions: classification system and selection of surgical approaches	28
Venous sinus thrombosis in traumatic brain injury: a major trauma centre experience	26
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	25
Unreliable claims regarding bicycle helmet law in Western Australia	24
Clinical predictors of shunt response in the diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
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	24
Elective intervention for unruptured cranial arteriovenous malformations in relation to ARUBA trial: a National Inpatient Sample study	21
Endovascular versus surgical treatment of cranial dural arteriovenous fistulas: a single-center 8-year experience	21
Current state of social media utilization in neurosurgery amongst European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) member countries	19
Distress and quality of life do not change over time in patients with operated and conservatively managed intracranial meningioma	18
Stereotactic radiosurgery for clinoid meningiomas: a multi-institutional study	18
Tribute to Professor Bernard George	18
Combined use of multimodal techniques for the resection of glioblastoma involving corpus callosum	17
Invasive tests for predicting shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: the risk aspect	17
Letter: “Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow‐up”	17
Vascular supplies to the column of the fornix other than the subcallosal artery: median artery of the corpus callosum and posterior choroidal arteries	17
Dabrafenib monotherapy for a recurrent BRAFV600E-mutated TTF-1-positive posterior pituitary tumor	16

Uncommon presentations of a neurosurgical site infection: impaired wound healing with hypergranulation and crust formation	16
Brain retraction injury after elective aneurysm clipping: a retrospective single-center cohort study	15
Craniotomies following acute traumatic brain injury in Finland—a national study between 1997 and 2018	15
Psychooncological distress in low-grade glioma patients—a monocentric study	15
Safety analysis and complications of condylar screws in a single-surgeon series of 250 occipitocervical fusions	14
Surgical management of anterior clinoidal meningiomas: consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section	13
An endoscopic endonasal approach to craniopharyngioma via the infrachiasmatic corridor: a single center experience of 84 patients	13
How I do it: horizontal fissure approach to the middle cerebellar peduncle	13
Vertical parasagittal hemispherotomy: a case report of postoperative mesio-temporal seizures via amygdalofugal pathway	13
Thalamic anterior part of the ventral posterolateral nucleus and central lateral nucleus in the genesis of central post-stroke pain	13
A detailed analysis of anatomical plausibility of crossed and uncrossed streamline rendition of the dentato-rubro-thalamic tract (DRT(T)) in a commercial stereotactic planning system	13
Aggressive pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: current practices, controversies, and perspectives, on behalf of the EANS skull base section	13
A rare case of giant calcified thoracic disc herniation, OPLL and OLF: how I do it	12
Efficacy of caudal pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation on postural instability and gait disorders in Parkinson’s disease	12
How I do it: the trans-laminar, facet-joint sparing minimal invasive approach for ventral dural repair in spontaneous intracranial hypotension—a 2-dimensional operative video	12
Pretreatment patient-reported cognitive function in patients with diffuse glioma	12
Brain infarctions after glioma surgery: prevalence, radiological characteristics and risk factors	12
Cyclo-oxygenase 2, a putative mediator of vessel remodeling, is expressed in the brain AVM vessels and associates with inflammation	12
How I do it: two-step transposition technique during endoscopic microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia	11
Stereotactic radiosurgery for asymptomatic petroclival region meningiomas: a focused analysis from the IMPASSE study	11
A clinicoradiological analysis of silent corticotroph adenomas after the introduction of pituitary-specific transcription factors	11
Endoscopic extra-capsular resection of a giant pituitary adenoma: how I do it	11
A case series of percutaneous transforamen ovale biopsies in cavernous sinus lesions	11
A new uPAR-targeting fluorescent probe for optical guided intracranial surgery in resection of a meningioma—a case report	10
Beyond magnification and illumination: preliminary clinical experience with the 4K 3D ORBEYE™ exoscope and a literature review	10
Two-step staged resection of giant olfactory groove meningiomas	10
Robotic-assisted percutaneous iliac screw fixation for destructive lumbosacral metastatic lesions: an early single-institution experience	10
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,	10
The benefits of inferolateral transtubercular route on intradural surgical exposure using the endoscopic endonasal transclival approach	10
Impact of C-shaped skin incision on surgical operability in the retrosigmoid approach: when a good start is half of the job	10
Designing electrode configuration of electroosmosis based edema treatment as a complement to hyperosmotic therapy	10
Treatment of octogenarians and nonagenarians with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a 17-year institutional analysis	10
Decreased number of deaths related to severe traumatic brain injury in intensive care unit during the first lockdown in Normandy: at least one positive side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Dynamic radiation-induced imaging changes more than 20 years following gamma knife surgery	10
Preoperative measurements on MRI in Chiari 1 patients fail to predict outcome after decompressive surgery	10
Midline sacral meningeal cyst decompression and repair	9
Correction to: Integrity of dural closure after autologous platelet rich fibrin augmentation: an in vitro study	9
Hydroxyapatite cement cranioplasty for reconstruction of translabyrinthine approach: aesthetic results, long-term satisfaction, quality of life, and complications	9
Robot-assisted stereotactic multiple brain abscesses’ puncture: technical case report	9
Aphasic status epilepticus after glioma resection: two case reports	9
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”	9
Outcomes of patients with nonepileptic transient neurologic symptoms after subdural hematoma evacuation	9
“Omics” in traumatic brain injury: novel approaches to a complex disease	9
Burnout amongst neurosurgical trainees in the UK and Ireland	9
Intraoperative findings of abnormal muscle response for hemifacial spasm following botulinum neurotoxin treatment	9
Aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage during the COVID-19 outbreak in a Hub and Spoke system: observational multicenter cohort study in Lombardy, Italy	9