OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Neurosurgery is 28. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of applicants and matriculants to neurological surgery residency programs	78
Letter to the Editor. ALA in the treatment of glioblastoma	60
The Device for Intraventricular Entry guide: a novel solution to a perpetual problem	55
Letter to the Editor. Small deep white matter cuts, big disconnections	53
Troubleshooting the bypass: intraoperative management of initially failed anastomosis in direct cerebral revascularization surgery	53
Letter to the Editor. Sophisticated data acquisition and analytics in neurosurgery: beneficial but expect challenges	52
Letter to the Editor. Remission of acromegaly after transsphenoidal surgery	46
Editorial. Margie Shreve and the Journal of Neurosurgery: "May it be said, ‘Well done.’"	43
Genomic alterations associated with postoperative nodular leptomeningeal disease after resection of brain metastases	42
Noninvasive disconnection of targeted neuronal circuitry sparing axons of passage and nonneuronal cells	42
The critical need to address gender inequities in resident feedback and ensure equitable education for all trainees in neurosurgical training	37
Predictive value of intraoperative vagus nerve corticobulbar motor evoked potentials to assess the risk of dysphagia in fourth ventricle surgery	36
Letter to the Editor. Stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernous malformations: does it beat the natural history?	36
Monopolar stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation	36
Preoperative white matter network organization and memory decline after epilepsy surgery	35
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
Distribution of osteoprotegerin in unruptured intracranial aneurysms in humans: association with aneurysm wall protective remodeling	32
Intraarterial encephalography from an acutely implanted aneurysm embolization device in awake humans	32
Association of calcium channel blockers with lower incidence of intracranial aneurysm rupture and growth in hypertensive patients	31
Damaging a few millimeters of the deep white matter tracts during glioma surgery may result in a large-scale brain disconnection	31
Long-term outcomes after surgery for brainstem cavernous malformations: analysis of 46 consecutive cases	30
Use of fluorescein sodium–assisted intraoperative sample validation to maximize the diagnostic yield of stereotactic brain biopsy: progress toward a new standard of care?	30
Pipeline embolization device dynamics: prediction of incomplete occlusion by elongation from nominal length	30
Accuracy and efficiency using frameless transient fiducial registration in stereoelectroencephalography and deep brain stimulation	29

The effect of patient age on the degree of midline shift caused by chronic subdural hematomas: a volumetric analysis	29
Role of resective surgery in patients older than 60 years with therapy-resistant epilepsy	29
Norwegian translation of the Mayo Clinic Vestibular Schwannoma Quality of Life Index	28
The influence of tumor topography on the surgical outcome of craniopharyngiomas	28
Development and validation of a radiomics–visual evoked potential nomogram for preoperative prediction of visual outcome after endoscopic craniopharyngioma resection	28