OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of British Journal of Surgery is 35. 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
Safe management of surgical smoke in the age of COVID-19	140
European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender	126
Regenerative medicine, organ bioengineering and transplantation	107
Personal protective equipment for surgeons during COVID-19 pandemic: systematic review of availability, usage and rationing	102
Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection	91
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study	79
Laparoscopic and open liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma with Child–Pugh B cirrhosis: multicentre propensity score-matched study	75
Learning curves in minimally invasive hepatectomy: systematic review and meta-regression analysis	72
Robotic versus laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: multicentre analysis	66
Updated guideline for closure of abdominal wall incisions from the European and American Hernia Societies	63
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: 5-year outcomes of merged data from two randomized clinical trials (SLEEVEPASS and SM-BOSS)	62
Laparoscopic versus open resection of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis: meta-analysis	60
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer	59
Elective surgery after the pandemic: waves beyond the horizon	58
Reduction in emergency surgery activity during COVID-19 pandemic in three Spanish hospitals	52
Local recurrence after local excision of early rectal cancer: a meta-analysis of completion TME, adjuvant (chemo)radiation, or no additional treatment	52
C-reactive protein trajectory to predict colorectal anastomotic leak: PREDICT Study	46
Superiority of continuous over intermittent intraoperative nerve monitoring in preventing vocal cord palsy	45
European Hernia Society guidelines on management of rectus diastasis	45
Artificial intelligence indocyanine green (ICG) perfusion for colorectal cancer intra-operative tissue classification	43
Static cold storage compared with normothermic machine perfusion of the liver and effect on ischaemic-type biliary lesions after transplantation: a propensity score-matched study	43
Modelling centralization of pancreatic surgery in a nationwide analysis	42
Rectal cancer lateral lymph nodes: multicentre study of the impact of obturator and internal iliac nodes on oncological outcomes	41
International multicentre propensity score-matched analysis comparing robotic versus laparoscopic right posterior sectionectomy	41
Convert to open: the new paradigm for surgery during COVID-19?	40

Decrease in primary but not in secondary abdominal surgery for Crohn's disease: nationwide cohort study, 1990–2014	40
Role of tumour location and surgical extent on prognosis in T2 gallbladder cancer: an international multicentre study	39
Technical advances in surgery for pancreatic cancer	39
Resource requirements for reintroducing elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: modelling study	38
Rectal cancer lateral pelvic sidewall lymph nodes: a review of controversies and management	38
Phase I/II study of adding intraperitoneal paclitaxel in patients with pancreatic cancer and peritoneal metastasis	38
Preoperative portal vein or portal and hepatic vein embolization: DRAGON collaborative group analysis	37
Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study	37
Perioperative mortality in bariatric surgery: meta-analysis	36
Indocyanine green fluorescence angiographyversusstandard intraoperative methods for prevention of anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery: meta-analysis	36
Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	35
Laparoscopic sentinel node navigation surgery versus laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for early gastric cancer: short-term outcomes of a multicentre randomized controlled tri	35
Urogenital function following robotic and laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery: meta-analysis	35
Mortality from abdominal aortic aneurysm: trends in European Union 15+ countries from 1990 to 2017	35