OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Japanese Journal of Radiology is 25. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Development of Acceptable Quality Dose (AQD) and image quality-related diagnostic reference levels for common computed tomography investigations in a tertiary care public sector hospital of Khyber Pak	478
Inspiratory and expiratory CT analyses of the diaphragmatic crus in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	111
Application of 123I-MIBG myocardial maximum standardized uptake value to characterize cardiac function in patients with pheochromocytoma: comparison with echocardiography	96
Fractal analysis of dynamic stress myocardial CT perfusion decouples diagnostic accuracy for obstructive coronary artery disease from remote flow	88
Fractal-driven self-supervised learning enhances early-stage lung cancer GTV segmentation: a novel transfer learning framework	81
Correction to: Prediction of the wall‑invasion pattern of advanced gallbladder carcinoma using extracellular volume fraction	78
18F-FAPI-74 versus 18F-FDG in synchronous pancreatic cancer and follicular lymphoma	69
CT and MRI of abdominal cancers: current trends and perspectives in the era of radiomics and artificial intelligence	64
Comment on “CT-based assessment of bear-inflicted maxillofacial injuries: evaluation using the facial injury severity scale and its association with hospitalization duration”	56
Time course of complications after small renal mass biopsy: evaluation of initial follow-up images	51
Inflammation index predicts radiation-induced lung injury and prognosis in lung tumors treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	51
Detection of intracranial aneurysms using deep learning-based CAD system: usefulness of the scores of CNN’s final layer for distinguishing between aneurysm and infundibular dilatation	48
Noninvasive dynamic vascular imaging: arterial spin labeling-based noncontrast magnetic resonance digital subtraction angiography for cerebral disease diagnoses	48
Brain perfusion SPECT in dementia: what radiologists should know	47
The radiomics fingerprint of cartilage tumours: radiomics-based MRI differentiation of enchondroma and atypical cartilaginous tumour	41
Spot sign score is associated with hematoma expansion and longer hospital stay but not functional outcomes in primary intracerebral hemorrhage survivors	38
High-resolution chest CT using 1024-matrix reconstruction: phantom and clinical evaluation of image quality and post-processing capability	35
Imaging findings of juvenile idiopathic arthritis and autoinflammatory diseases in children	35
Dual-energy computed tomography for improved visualization of internal jugular chain neck lymph node metastasis and nodal necrosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	34
Comparison of natural language processing algorithms in assessing the importance of head computed tomography reports written in Japanese	33
The letter to editor regarding “CT-based assessment of bear-inflicted maxillofacial injuries: evaluation using the facial injury severity scale and its association with hospitalization duration”	33
CZT-based photon-counting-detector CT with deep-learning reconstruction: image quality and diagnostic confidence for lung tumor assessment	32
Clinical significance of dual-energy dual-layer CT parameters in differentiating small-sized gastrointestinal stromal tumors from leiomyomas	32
External validation of the performance of commercially available deep-learning-based lung nodule detection on low-dose CT images for lung cancer screening in Japan	30
Relationship of computed tomography quantified visceral adiposity with the severity and complications of acute pancreatitis: a systematic review	26