OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Surgery is 30. 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
Killing mosquitoes or draining the swamp?	127
Information for readers	91
Discussion	80
Discussion	73
Discussion	61
Discussion	57
Discussion	56
Discussion	53
Discussion	53
Air in the Wirsung duct	49
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Operative staff perspectives of surgeon coping with intraoperative errors	48
Discussion	48
Lymph node ratio–based model for predicting survival and assessing the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in postoperative duodenal adenocarcinoma	47
Access to surgical treatment for hepatopancreaticobiliary cancer in the Philippines	45
Ancillary documents for NIH grant applications: The pages beyond the science	44
A Tribute to Dr Kevin E. Behrns, Editor-in-Chief of SURGERY	44
Disparities in Time to Surgeon Evaluation Among Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism	38
Soluble endothelial protein C receptor is an independent predictor of venous thromboembolism after severe injury: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study	37
Axillary breast cancer with lateral orbital metastasis in a male patient	36
Letter to the editor on: “AI versus MD: Evaluating the surgical decision-making accuracy of ChatGPT-4”	34
Invited commentary on: Acute cholecystitis: Delayed cholecystectomy has lesser perioperative morbidity compared to emergency cholecystectomy	34
Letter to the editor regarding “Hepatectomy strategy for T2 gallbladder cancer between segment IVb and V resection and wedge resection: A propensity score-matched study”	33
Sustained reduction of discharge opioid prescriptions in an enhanced recovery after thoracic surgery program: A multilevel generalized linear model	33
Cover 1(with editorial board)	33
To Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS) or Not to ALPPS	33

But can the Bot Write?	33
Outcomes of synthetic and biologic mesh in abdominal wall reconstruction: A propensity-matched analysis in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention class 1 and 2 wounds	32
The importance of a vice chair in a department of surgery: A chair's perspective	32
“Predictors of lymph node metastasis and survival in radically resected rectal neuroendocrine tumors: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database analysis”: Author’s reply	31
Larger recipient vein caliber during lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach (LYMPHA) is associated with lower lymphedema rates	30
Risk of lymph node metastases and conditional survival in appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasms	30
Discussion	30