OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Surgery is 28. 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
Elective surgery in the time of COVID-19	198
Increasing incidence of complicated appendicitis during COVID-19 pandemic	108
Implementation of virtual focus groups for qualitative data collection in a global pandemic	93
The impact of COVID-19 on medical student surgical education: Implementing extreme pandemic response measures in a widely distributed surgical clerkship experience	88
How resilient is your team? Exploring healthcare providers’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	81
Implications for the use of telehealth in surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	77
A systematic review and meta-analysis of surgery delays and survival in breast, lung and colon cancers: Implication for surgical triage during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
Representation of women in speaking roles at surgical conferences	62
Surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive overview and perioperative care	62
Telemedicine to follow patients in a general surgery department. A randomized controlled trial	60
Standing electric scooter injuries: Impact on a community	52
Gender and ethnic diversity in academic general surgery department leadership	52
Anti-Asian sentiment in the United States – COVID-19 and history	46
A contemporary reassessment of the US surgical workforce through 2050 predicts continued shortages and increased productivity demands	42
Is oncoplastic breast conserving surgery oncologically safe? A meta-analysis of 18,103 patients	41
Adjuvant therapy rates and overall survival in patients with localized pancreatic cancer from high Area Deprivation Index neighborhoods	40
Burnout and its relationship with perceived stress, self-efficacy, depression, social support, and programmatic factors in general surgery residents	37
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on general surgery training program: An Italian experience	34
Every minute counts: The impact of pre-hospital response time and scene time on mortality of penetrating trauma patients	34
Pre-operative COVID-19 testing and decolonization	33
Where is the leak in the surgeon pipeline?	33
The what? How? And Who? Of video based assessment	32
Predicting factors for central or lateral lymph node metastasis in conventional papillary thyroid microcarcinoma	32
Management of simple and retained hemothorax: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma	32
Use of indocyanine green fluorescence compared to radioisotope for sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis	31

Modified frailty index predicts high-risk patients for readmission after colorectal surgery for cancer	30
Surgical management of truncal and extremities atypical lipomatous tumors/well-differentiated liposarcoma: A systematic review of the literature	29
Simulation in surgical education	29
Bariatric surgery to achieve transplant in end-stage organ disease patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Obesity and surgical complications of pancreaticoduodenectomy: An observation study utilizing ACS NSQIP	28
Emergency Department Resuscitative Thoracotomy: Indications, surgical procedure and outcome. A narrative review	28
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol reduces perioperative narcotic requirement and length of stay in patients undergoing mastectomy with implant-based reconstruction	28
Surgeon burnout, impact on patient safety and professionalism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28