OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Japanese Journal of Radiology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Application of 123I-MIBG myocardial maximum standardized uptake value to characterize cardiac function in patients with pheochromocytoma: comparison with echocardiography	250
Time course of complications after small renal mass biopsy: evaluation of initial follow-up images	172
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	82
Percutaneous needle biopsy under 1.2 Tesla open MRI guidance	64
Inspiratory and expiratory CT analyses of the diaphragmatic crus in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	63
Correction to: An analysis of the radiological factors associated with respiratory failure in COVID-19 pneumonia and the CT features among different age categories	54
Inflammation index predicts radiation-induced lung injury and prognosis in lung tumors treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	48
Effects of slice thickness on CT radiomics features and models for staging liver fibrosis caused by chronic liver disease	48
The diagnostic performance of ultra-low-dose 320-row detector CT with different reconstruction algorithms on limb joint fractures in the emergency department	47
Brain perfusion SPECT in dementia: what radiologists should know	42
Noninvasive dynamic vascular imaging: arterial spin labeling-based noncontrast magnetic resonance digital subtraction angiography for cerebral disease diagnoses	41
Development and validation of a CT-based nomogram to predict spread through air space (STAS) in peripheral stage IA lung adenocarcinoma	38
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	37
CT and MRI of abdominal cancers: current trends and perspectives in the era of radiomics and artificial intelligence	36
Essence of postmortem computed tomography for in-hospital deaths: what clinical radiologists should know	33
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	32
Clinical significance of dual-energy dual-layer CT parameters in differentiating small-sized gastrointestinal stromal tumors from leiomyomas	31
Spot sign score is associated with hematoma expansion and longer hospital stay but not functional outcomes in primary intracerebral hemorrhage survivors	30
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	29
Feasibility study for inducing the skeletal muscle fibrosis via irradiation using two mouse strains	28
Imaging of metabolic and overload disorders in tissues and organs	27
Feasibility of iodine concentration and extracellular volume fraction measurement derived from the equilibrium phase dual-energy CT for differentiating thymic epithelial tumors	26
Comparison of natural language processing algorithms in assessing the importance of head computed tomography reports written in Japanese	26
Response to: LI-RADS CT/MRI radiation treatment response assessment version 2024: the importance of pretreatment stage and time	26
Imaging findings of juvenile idiopathic arthritis and autoinflammatory diseases in children	26

CZT-based photon-counting-detector CT with deep-learning reconstruction: image quality and diagnostic confidence for lung tumor assessment