OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Clinical Oncology is 23. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Long-term survival outcome of locally advanced gastric cancer patients who achieved a pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy	131
Recent developments and future directions of first-line systemic therapy combined with immunotherapy for advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a historical perspective on treatment evolution	108
Surgical margin clearance and extended chemotherapy defines survival for synchronous oligometastatic liver lesions of the ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas	68
Laboratory prognostic score for predicting 14-day mortality in terminally ill patients with gynecologic malignancy	63
A phase I study of combined trabectedin and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin therapy for advanced relapsed ovarian cancer	47
The cancer‐related transcription factor Runx2 combined with osteopontin: a novel prognostic biomarker in resected osteosarcoma	45
Presence of serum RalA and serum p53 autoantibodies in 1833 patients with various types of cancers	44
Macroscopic and multiple metastases in sentinel lymph node biopsy are respectively associated with poor prognosis in early oral cancer	38
Impact of positive surgical margin status in predicting early biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy	36
Efficacy of EUS-guided celiac plexus neurolysis in combination with EUS-guided celiac ganglia neurolysis for pancreatic cancer-associated pain: a multicenter prospective trial	32
What has changed in malignant mesothelioma between 1990 and 2019? A time- series analyses in Turkey	30
Predictive role of circulatory levels of high-mobility group box 1 for radiation pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with definitive thoracic radiotherapy	29
The prognostic impact of treatment centralization in patients with testicular germ cell tumors: analysis of hospital-based cancer registry data in Japan	28
Clinical and pathological outcomes of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy for Japanese women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer	28
Indocyanine green-guided sentinel lymph node mapping during laparoscopic surgery with vaginal cuff closure but no uterine manipulator for cervical cancer	28
Prognostic significance of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage I–II endometrial carcinoma patients who underwent lymphadenectomy	27
Current trend in treatment of glioblastoma in Japan: a national survey using the diagnostic procedure combination database (J-ASPECT study-glioblastoma)	27
Identification of clinical prognosis features and significant DNA methylation regulation in pineoblastoma	26
The efficacy and safety of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab in vulnerable patients with metastatic or recurrent endometrial cancer: a single institution experience	26
Real-world application of comprehensive genomic profiling for gynecological malignancies: a multicenter observational study	26
Can contralateral lymph-node metastases be ruled out in prostate cancer patients with only unilaterally positive prostate biopsy?	26
Final analyses of the prospective controlled trial on the efficacy of uracil and tegafur/leucovorin as an adjuvant treatment for stage II colon cancer with risk factors for recurrence using propensity	25
Rac1 activation in oral squamous cell carcinoma as a predictive factor associated with lymph node metastasis	23