OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery is 30. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Letter to the Editor. ALA in the treatment of glioblastoma	106
Letter to the Editor. The utility of preoperative scores for predicting outcomes after MVD for trigeminal neuralgia	76
Norwegian translation of the Mayo Clinic Vestibular Schwannoma Quality of Life Index	75
Risk factors for wound dehiscence after surgery for epilepsy	61
Letter to the Editor. Remission of acromegaly after transsphenoidal surgery	57
Letter to the Editor. Sophisticated data acquisition and analytics in neurosurgery: beneficial but expect challenges	55
Editorial. Margie Shreve and the Journal of Neurosurgery: "May it be said, ‘Well done.’"	55
Intraarterial encephalography from an acutely implanted aneurysm embolization device in awake humans	47
Use of fluorescein sodium–assisted intraoperative sample validation to maximize the diagnostic yield of stereotactic brain biopsy: progress toward a new standard of care?	45
Troubleshooting the bypass: intraoperative management of initially failed anastomosis in direct cerebral revascularization surgery	45
Letter to the Editor. Small deep white matter cuts, big disconnections	45
Distribution of osteoprotegerin in unruptured intracranial aneurysms in humans: association with aneurysm wall protective remodeling	39
Letter to the Editor. Stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernous malformations: does it beat the natural history?	38
Predictive value of intraoperative vagus nerve corticobulbar motor evoked potentials to assess the risk of dysphagia in fourth ventricle surgery	38
The influence of tumor topography on the surgical outcome of craniopharyngiomas	38
Long-term outcomes after surgery for brainstem cavernous malformations: analysis of 46 consecutive cases	38
Genomic alterations associated with postoperative nodular leptomeningeal disease after resection of brain metastases	36
Surgical management of giant craniopharyngiomas: expanded endoscopic endonasal or transcranial approach?	36
Internal neurolysis versus intraoperative glycerin rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia	34
Extra-axial endoscopic third ventriculostomy: preliminary experience with a technique to circumvent conventional endoscopic third ventriculostomy complications	33
Primary rhombencephalopathy: introduction of a new paradigm for the evaluation and management of craniocervical hindbrain pathology	33
Damaging a few millimeters of the deep white matter tracts during glioma surgery may result in a large-scale brain disconnection	33
Development and validation of a radiomics–visual evoked potential nomogram for preoperative prediction of visual outcome after endoscopic craniopharyngioma resection	33
Preoperative white matter network organization and memory decline after epilepsy surgery	33
Letter to the Editor. Intraosseous needle for cSDH: technical refinements and future directions	33

Noninvasive disconnection of targeted neuronal circuitry sparing axons of passage and nonneuronal cells	32
Leading medical schools for female neurosurgery graduates	31
Visual deterioration secondary to medial sphenoid wing meningioma: systematic assessment of patient-reported outcomes and factors contributing to recovery after surgical treatment	30
The effect of patient age on the degree of midline shift caused by chronic subdural hematomas: a volumetric analysis	30
Long-term oncological outcomes for endoscopic endonasal versus open surgical approaches for anatomically matched, locally advanced stage T4 sinonasal malignancies with skull base involvement	30
Anterior choroidal artery aneurysms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes and ischemic complications following surgical and endovascular treatment	30