OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine is 26. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Letter to the Editor. ChatGPT and the treatment of cervical radiculopathy	120
Letter to the Editor. Preoperative depression among patients undergoing spine surgery	73
Treatment of conus medullaris arteriovenous malformation: the role of microsurgical treatment	62
Surgical outcomes of patients who fail to reach minimal clinically important differences: comparison of minimally invasive versus open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion	57
Female authorship trends in high-impact spine surgery journals	56
The status of spine surgery in social media platforms: a call to action	47
Letter to the Editor. Rethinking the gold standard: limitations and implications for validation processes	45
Editorial. Paraspinal musculature and bone quality: the answer to the mode of proximal junctional kyphosis	38
Do all patients with adult scoliosis need instrumented fusion from T10 to the pelvis?	37
The declining incidence of cervical spine surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a single-surgeon series and literature review	34
Use of global sagittal flexibility to predict proximal junctional kyphosis after spinal deformity surgery	34
Full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy for lumbar disc herniation in young adults: 199 consecutive cases treated by a single surgeon with a mean 3.7-year follow-up	33
The prognostic role of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, and systemic immune-inflammation index on short- and long-term outcome following surgery for spinal metastases	32
Independent predictors of vertebral compression fracture following radiation for metastatic spine disease	32
Differences in the rate of distal junctional problems between L3 and L4 pedicle subtraction osteotomy	32
Correlation of antithrombotic medication use with lower incidence of postoperative dysphagia following anterior cervical spine surgery	31
Postoperative opioid prescription and patient-reported outcomes after elective spine surgery: a Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative study	31
Spinal oligodendroglioma: a > 70-year systematic review of current literature	30
Stereotactic radiosurgery for prostate cancer spine metastases: local control and fracture risk using a simultaneous integrated boost approach	30
Ten-year safety of pluripotent stem cell transplantation in acute thoracic spinal cord injury	29
Vertebral bone quality score provides preoperative bone density assessment for patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery: a retrospective study	29
Graft subsidence and reoperation after lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a propensity score–matched and cost analysis of polyetheretherketone versus 3D-printed porous titanium interbodies	29
Evaluating alternatives to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for assessing bone quality in patients undergoing spine surgery	29
A guide to finite element analysis models of the spine for clinicians	27
Association of age-adjusted pelvic incidence minus lumbar lordosis correction with long-term radiographic and clinical outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery	27

Letter to the Editor. Introducing the horizontal lumbar skin incision for open triangular spinopelvic fixation	26
Urinary control in cervical myelopathy: does it improve postsurgery? A Quality Outcomes Database study	26