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Published in final edited form as: Childs Nerv Syst. 2013 Jul 31;29(12):2201–2213. doi: 10.1007/s00381-013-2228-z

Table 1.

List of top 100 most cited journal articles in pediatric neurosurgical journals

Article Rank Citations Adjusted rank Adjusted citations Class
Hoffman HJ, Hendrick EB, Humphreys RP (1976) The tethered spinal cord: its protean manifestations, diagnosis and surgical correction. Childs Brain 2: 145–155 1 193 29 5.22 4
Bowman RM, McLone DG, Grant JA, Tomita T, Ito JA (2001) Spina bifida outcome: a 25–year prospective. Pediatric Neurosurgery 34: 114–120 2 186 1 15.50 4
Taylor A, Butt W, Rosenfeld J, Shann F, Ditchfield M, Lewis E, Klug G, Wallace D, Henning R, Tibballs J (2001) A randomized trial of very early decompressive craniectomy in children with traumatic brain injury and sustained intracranial hypertension. Childs Nervous System 17: 154–162 3 182 2 15.17 2
Moss ML (1975) Functional anatomy of cranial synostosis. Childs Brain 1: 22–33 4 141 59 3.71 Review
Bruce DA, Raphaely RC, Goldberg AI, Zimmerman RA, Bilaniuk LT, Schut L, Kuhl DE (1979) Pathophysiology, treatment and outcome following severe head injury in children. Childs Brain 5: 174–191 5 138 51 4.06 4
Brockmeyer D, Abtin K, Carey L, Walker ML (1998) Endoscopic third ventriculostomy: an outcome analysis. Pediatric Neurosurgery 28: 236–240 6 134 5 8.93 4
Raimondi AJ, Hirschauer J (1984) Head injury in the infant and toddler—Coma scoring and outcome scale. Childs Brain 11: 12–35 7 130 44 4.48 4
Teo C, Jones R (1996) Management of hydrocephalus by endoscopic third ventriculostomy in patients with myelomeningocele. Pediatric Neurosurgery 25: 57–63 7 130 10 7.65 4
Buxton N, Macarthur D, Malucci C, Punt J, Vloeberghs M (1998) Neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy in patients less than 1 year old. Pediatric Neurosurgery 29: 73–76 9 129 8 8.60 4
Rickert CH, Paulus W (2001) Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in childhood and adolescence based on the new WHO classification. Childs Nervous System 17: 503–511 10 128 3 10.67 4
Bruce DA, Schut L (1979) Spinal lipomas in infancy and childhood. Childs Brain 5: 192–203 11 122 60 3.59 4
Di Rocco C, Marchese E, Velardi F (1994) A survey of the first complication of newly implanted CSF shunt devices for the treatment of nontumoral hydrocephalus—Cooperative survey of the 1991–1992 Education Committee of the ISPN. Childs Nervous System 10: 321–327 12 121 17 6.37 3
Piatt JH, Carlson CV (1993) A search for determinants of cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival: retrospective analysis of a 14-year institutional experience. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 233–242 13 117 21 5.85 4
Kestle J, Drake J, Milner R, Sainte-Rose C, Cinalli G, Boop F, Piatt J, Haines S, Schiff S, Cochrane D, Steinbok P, MacNeil N (2000) Long-term follow-up data from the shunt design trial. Pediatric Neurosurgery 33: 230–236 14 116 6 8.92 2
Pierre-Kahn A, Zerah M, Renier D, Cinalli G, Sainte-Rose C, Lellouch-Tubiana A, Brunelle F, Le Merrer M, Giudicelli Y, Pichon J, Kleinknecht B, Nataf F (1997) Congenital lumbosacral lipomas. Childs Nervous System 13: 298–334 14 116 12 7.25 4
Oberbauer RW, Haase J, Pucher R (1992) Arachnoid cysts in children: a European co-operative study. Childs Nervous System 8: 281–286 16 113 26 5.38 4
Hoffman HJ, Hendrick EB, Dennis M, Armstrong D (1979) Hemispherectomy for Sturge-Weber syndrome. Childs Brain 5: 233–248 17 110 64 3.24 4
Teo C, Rahman S, Boop FA, Cherny B (1996) Complications of endoscopic neurosurgery. Childs Nervous System 12: 248–253 18 109 16 6.41 4
Herrero MT, Barcia C, Navarro JM (2002) Functional anatomy of thalamus and basal ganglia. Childs Nervous System 18: 386–404 19 106 4 9.64 Review
Vinters HV, Fisher RS, Cornford ME, Mah V, Secor DL, Derosa MJ, Comair YG, Peacock WJ, Shields WD (1992) Morphological substrates of infantile spasms: studies based on surgically resected cerebral tissue. Childs Nervous System 8: 8–17 19 106 34 5.05 4
Fasano VA, Broggi G, Barolat-Romana G, Sguazzi A (1978) Surgical treatment of spasticity in cerebral palsy. Childs Brain 4: 289–305 21 105 70 3.00 4
Herman JM, McLone DG, Storrs BB, Dauser RC (1993) Analysis of 153 patients with myelomeningocele or spinal lipoma reoperated upon for a tethered cord—Presentation, management and outcome. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 243–249 22 104 30 5.20 4
Pierre-Kahn A, Hirsch JF, Roux FX, Renier D, Sainte-Rose C (1983) Intracranial ependymomas in childhood—Survival and functional results of 47 cases. Childs Brain 10: 145–156 23 102 63 3.40 4
Sanford RA (1994) Craniopharyngioma: results of survey of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Pediatric Neurosurgery 21: 39–43 24 100 27 5.26 Other
Adelson PD, Clyde B, Kochanek PM, Wisniewski SR, Marion DW, Yonas H (1997) Cerebrovascular response in infants and young children following severe traumatic brain injury: a preliminary report. Pediatric Neurosurgery 26: 200–207 25 99 18 6.19 4
Aschoff A, Kremer P, Benesch C, Fruh K, Klank A, Kunze S (1995) Overdrainage and shunt technology—A critical comparison of programmable, hydrostatic and variable-resistance valves and flow-reducing devices. Childs Nervous System 11: 193–202 26 98 25 5.44 Review
Raimondi AJ, Robinson JS, Kuwamura K (1977) Complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunting and a critical comparison of the three-piece and one-piece systems. Childs Brain 3: 321–342 26 98 75 2.72 3
Garrido E, Becker LF, Hoffman HJ, Hendrick EB, Humphreys R (1978) Gangliogliomas in children—A clinicopathological study. Childs Brain 4: 339–346 28 97 73 2.77 4
Renier D, Lajeunie E, Arnaud E, Marchac D (2000) Management of craniosynostoses. Childs Nervous System 16: 645–658 28 97 11 7.46 4
Duhaime AC, Christian C, Moss E, Seidl T (1996) Long-term outcome in infants with the shaking-impact syndrome. Pediatric Neurosurgery 24: 292–298 30 96 22 5.65 4
Packer RJ, Savino PJ, Bilaniuk LT, Zimmerman RA, Schatz NJ, Rosenstock JG, Nelson DS, Jarrett PD, Bruce DA, Schut L (1983) Chiasmatic gliomas of childhood—A reappraisal of natural history and effectiveness of cranial irradiation. Childs Brain 10: 393–403 30 96 66 3.20 4
Reilly PL, Simpson DA, Sprod R, Thomas L (1988) Assessing the conscious level in infants and young children: a paediatric version of the Glasgow coma scale. Childs Nervous System 4: 30–33 30 96 56 3.84 Other
Cohen AR (1993) Endoscopic ventricular surgery. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 127–134 33 94 39 4.70 4
Hoppe-Hirsch E, Renier D, Lellouch-Tubiana A, Sainte-Rose C, Pierre-Kahn A, Hirsch JF (1990) Medulloblastoma in childhood: progressive intellectual deterioration. Childs Nervous System 6: 60–65 33 94 50 4.09 3
Peacock WJ, Wehby-Grant MC, Shields WD, Shewmon DA, Chugani HT, Sankar R, Vinters HV (1996) Hemispherectomy for intractable seizures in children: a report of 58 cases. Childs Nervous System 12: 376–384 33 94 24 5.53 4
Bondurant CP, Jimenez DF (1995) Epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid shunting. Pediatric Neurosurgery 23: 254–258 36 91 32 5.06 Review
Hoppe-Hirsch E, Brunet L, Laroussinie F, Cinalli G, Pierre-Kahn A, Renier D, Sainte-Rose C, Hirsch JF (1995) Intellectual outcome in children with malignant tumors of the posterior fossa: influence of the field of irradiation and quality of surgery. Childs Nervous System 11: 340–345 36 91 32 5.06 4
Matsushima Y, Inaba Y (1984) Moyamoya disease in children and its surgical treatment—Introduction of a new surgical procedure and its follow-up angiograms. Childs Brain 11: 155–170 38 90 69 3.10 Other
Chapman PH (1982) Congenital intraspinal lipomas: anatomic considerations and surgical treatment. Childs Brain 9: 37–47 39 89 71 2.87 4
Kothbauer K, Deletis V, Epstein FJ (1997) Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring for intramedullary surgery: an essential adjunct. Pediatric Neurosurgery 26: 247–254 39 89 23 5.56 Review
Schiffer D, Chio A, Giordana MT, Migheli A, Palma L, Polio B, Soffietti R, Tribolo A (1991) Histologic prognostic factors in ependymoma. Childs Nervous System 7: 177–182 39 89 52 4.05 4
Carrea R, Dowling E, Guevara JA (1975) Surgical treatment of hydatid cysts of central nervous system in pediatric age (Dowlings technique). Childs Brain 1:4–21 42 86 82 2.26 4
Lasjaunias P, Hui F, Zerah M, Garcia-Monaco R, Malherbe V, Rodesch G, Tanaka A, Alvarez H (1995) Cerebral arteriovenous malformations in children—Management of 179 consecutive cases and review of the literature. Childs Nervous System 11: 66–79 43 85 38 4.72 4
Kaplan AM, Albright AL, Zimmerman RA, Rorke LB, Li H, Boyett JM, Finlay JL, Wara WM, Packer RJ (1996) Brainstem gliomas in children—A Children's Cancer Group review of 119 cases. Pediatric Neurosurgery 24: 185–192 44 84 35 4.94 4
Maki Y, Akimoto H, Enomoto T (1980) Injuries of basal ganglia following head trauma in children. Childs Brain 7: 113–123 44 84 76 2.55 4
Stapleton SR, Kiriakopoulos E, Mikulis D, Drake JM, Hoffman HJ, Humphreys R, Hwang P, Otsubo H, Holowka S, Logan W, Rutka JT (1997) Combined utility of functional MRI, cortical mapping, and frameless stereotaxy in the resection of lesions in eloquent areas of brain in children. Pediatric Neurosurgery 26: 68–82 44 84 28 5.25 4
Arens LJ, Peacock WJ, Peter J (1989) Selective posterior rhizotomy: a long-term follow-up study. Childs Nervous System 5: 148–152 47 83 62 3.46 4
Amacher AL, Wellington J (1984) Infantile hydrocephalus: long-term results of surgical therapy. Childs Brain 11: 217–229 48 82 72 2.83 4
Raimondi AJ, Gutierrez FA (1975) Diagnosis and surgical treatment of choroid plexus papillomas. Childs Brain 1: 81–115 48 82 87 2.16 4
Takaku A, Kodama N, Ohara H, Hori S (1978) Brain tumor in newborn babies. Childs Brain 4: 365–375 50 81 78 2.31 4
Johnson DL, Boal D, Baule R (1995) Role of apnea in nonaccidental head injury. Pediatric Neurosurgery 23: 305–310 51 80 46 4.44 4
Hahn YS, Chyung CH, Barthel MJ, Bailes J, Flannery AM, McLone DG (1988) Head injuries in children under 36 months of age—Demography and outcome. Childs Nervous System 4: 34–40 52 79 67 3.16 3
Thompson DN, Malcolm GP, Jones BM, Harkness WJ, Hayward RD (1995) Intracranial pressure in single-suture craniosynostosis. Pediatric Neurosurgery 22: 235–240 52 79 47 4.39 4
Deutsch M, Thomas PR, Krischer J, Boyett JM, Albright L, Aronin P, Langsten J, Allen JC, Packer RJ, Linggood R, Mulhern R, Stanley P, Stehbens JA, Duffner P, Kun L, Rorke L, Cherlow J, Freidman H, Finlay JL, Vietti T (1996) Results of a prospective randomized trial comparing standard dose neuraxis irradiation (3,600 cGy/20) with reduced neuraxis irradiation (2,340 cGy/13) in patients with low-stage medulloblastoma—A Combined Children's Cancer Group-Pediatric Oncology Group Study. Pediatric Neurosurgery 24: 167–176 54 78 42 4.59 2
Goumnerova LC, Frim DM (1997) Treatment of hydrocephalus with third ventriculocisternostomy: outcome and CSF flow patterns. Pediatric Neurosurgery 27: 149–152 54 78 36 4.88 4
Levin HS, Eisenberg HM (1979) Neuropsychological outcome of closed head injury in children and adolescents. Childs Brain 5: 281–292 54 78 80 2.29 4
Rekate HL (1993) Classification of slit-ventricle syndromes using intracranial pressure monitoring. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 15–20 54 78 54 3.90 4
Anderson V, Catroppa C, Morse S, Haritou F, Rosenfeld J (2000) Recovery of intellectual ability following traumatic brain injury in childhood: Impact of injury severity and age at injury. Pediatric Neurosurgery 32: 282–290 58 77 20 5.92 4
Sayers MP, Kosnik EJ (1976) Percutaneous third ventriculostomy: experience and technique. Childs Brain 2: 24–30 58 77 91 2.08 4
Tomita T, McLone DG (1993) Radical resections of childhood craniopharyngiomas. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 6–14 58 77 55 3.85 4
Hoffman HJ, Humphreys RP, Drake JM, Rutka JT, Becker LE, Jenkin D, Greenberg M (1993) Optic pathway/hypothalamic gliomas: a dilemma in management. Pediatric Neurosurgery 19: 186–195 61 76 58 3.80 4
McGirt MJ, Leveque JC, Wellons JC, Villavicencio AT, Hopkins JS, Fuchs HE, George TM (2002) Cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival and etiology of failures: a seven-year institutional experience. Pediatric Neurosurgery 36: 248–255 61 76 14 6.91 4
Gerosa M, Licata C, Fiore DL, Iraci G (1980) Intracranial aneurysms of childhood. Childs Brain 6: 295–302 63 75 81 2.27 4
Reigel DH, Scarff TB, Woodford JE (1979) Biopsy of pediatric brain stem tumors. Childs Brain 5: 329–340 63 75 85 2.21 4
Almeida GM, Pindaro J, Plese P, Bianco E, Shibata MK (1977) Intracranial arterial aneurysms in infancy and childhood. Childs Brain 3: 193–199 65 74 92 2.06 4
Dirven CM, Mooij JJ, Molenaar WM (1997) Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma: a treatment protocol based upon analysis of 73 cases and a review of the literature. Childs Nervous System 13: 17–23 65 74 41 4.63 4
Egnor M, Zheng L, Rosiello A, Gutman F, Davis R (2002) A model of pulsations in communicating hydrocephalus. Pediatric Neurosurgery 36: 281–303 65 74 15 6.73 Other
Sano K, Matsutani M (1981) Pinealoma (germinoma) treated by direct surgery and postoperative irradiation—A long-term follow-up. Childs Brain 8: 81–97 65 74 78 2.31 4
Casey AT, Kimmings EJ, Kleinlugtebeld AD, Taylor WA, Harkness WF, Hayward RD (1997) The long-term outlook for hydrocephalus in childhood—A ten-year cohort study of 155 patients. Pediatric Neurosurgery 27: 63–70 69 73 43 4.56 4
Fischbein NJ, Prados MD, Wara W, Russo C, Edwards MS, Barkovich AJ (1996) Radiologic classification of brain stem tumors: correlation of magnetic resonance imaging appearance with clinical outcome. Pediatric Neurosurgery 24: 9–23 69 73 48 4.29 3
Steinbok P, Irvine B, Cochrane DD, Irwin BJ (1992) Long-term outcome and complications of children born with meningomyelocele. Childs Nervous System 8: 92–96 69 73 61 3.48 4
Ventureyra EC, Higgins MJ (1994) Traumatic intracranial aneurysms in childhood and adolescence—Case reports and review of the literature. Childs Nervous System 10: 361–379 69 73 56 3.84 4
Choi JU, Kim DS, Huh R (1999) Endoscopic approach to arachnoid cyst. Childs Nervous System 15: 285–291 73 72 31 5.14 4
Menezes AH (1995) Primary craniovertebral anomalies and the hindbrain herniation syndrome (Chiari I): data base analysis. Pediatric Neurosurgery 23: 260–269 73 72 53 4.00 4
O'Hayon BB, Drake JM, Ossip MG, Tuli S, Clarke M (1998) Frontal and occipital horn ratio: A linear estimate of ventricular size for multiple imaging modalities in pediatric hydrocephalus. Pediatric Neurosurgery 29: 245–249 73 72 37 4.80 Other
Amacher AL (1980) Craniopharyngioma: the controversy regarding radiotherapy. Childs Brain 6: 57–64 76 71 88 2.15 Review
Glauser TA, Packer RJ (1991) Cognitive deficits in long-term survivors of childhood brain tumors. Childs Nervous System 7: 2–12 76 71 65 3.23 Review
Holness RO, Hoffman HJ, Hendrick EB (1979) Subtemporal decompression for the slit-ventricle syndrome after shunting in hydrocephalic children. Childs Brain 5: 137–144 76 71 89 2.09 4
Sano K, Wakai S, Ochiai C, Takakura K (1981) Characteristics of intracranial meningiomas in childhood. Childs Brain 8: 98–106 76 71 84 2.22 4
Duffner PK, Kischer JP, Sanford RA, Horowitz ME, Burger PC, Cohen ME, Friedman HS, Kun LE, Pediatric Oncology Group (1998) Prognostic factors in infants and very young children with intracranial ependymomas. Pediatric Neurosurgery 28: 215–222 80 70 40 4.67 3
Hoffman HJ, Hendrick EB, Humphreys RP (1975) Manifestations and management of Arnold-Chiari malformation in patients with myelomeningocele. Childs Brain 1: 255–259 80 70 98 1.84 Review
Lasjaunias P, Wuppalapati S, Alvarez H, Rodesch G, Ozanne A (2005) Intracranial aneurysms in children aged under 15 years: review of 59 consecutive children with 75 aneurysms. Childs Nervous System 21: 437–450 80 70 7 8.75 4
Packer RJ, Rood BR, MacDonald TJ (2003) Medulloblastoma: present concepts of stratification into risk groups. Pediatric Neurosurgery 39: 60–67 80 70 13 7.00 Review
Raimondi AJ, Tomita T (1979) Medulloblastoma in childhood: comparative results of partial and total resection. Childs Brain 5: 310–328 80 70 92 2.06 3
Raimondi AJ, Tomita T (1983) Brain tumors during the first year of life. Childs Brain 10: 193–207 80 70 77 2.33 4
Rajakulasingam K, Cerullo LJ, Raimondi AJ (1979) Childhood moyamoya syndrome—Postradiation pathogenesis. Childs Brain 5: 467–475 80 70 92 2.06 4
Amacher AL, Drake CG (1975) Cerebral artery aneurysms in infancy, childhood and adolescence. Childs Brain 1: 72–80 87 69 99 1.82 4
Mori K, Murata T, Hashimoto N, Handa H (1980) Clinical analysis of arteriovenous malformations in children. Childs Brain 6: 13–25 87 69 89 2.09 4
O'Brien M, Parent A, Davis B (1979) Management of ventricular shunt infections. Childs Brain 5: 304–309 87 69 95 2.03 4
Coulon RA, Till K (1977) Intracranial ependymomas in children: a review of 43 cases. Childs Brain 3: 154–168 90 68 97 1.89 4
Storrs BB, Humphreys RP, Hendrick EB, Hoffman HJ (1982) Intracranial aneurysms in the pediatric age-group. Childs Brain 9: 358–361 90 68 86 2.19 4
Beems T, Grotenhuis JA (2002) Is the success rate of endoscopic third ventriculostomy age-dependent? An analysis of the results of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in young children. Childs Nervous System 18: 605–608 92 67 19 6.09 4
Fisher PG, Jenab J, Goldthwaite PT, Tihan T, Wharam MD, Foer DR, Burger PC (1998) Outcomes and failure patterns in childhood craniopharyngiomas. Childs Nervous System 14: 558–563 92 67 45 4.47 3
Takeuchi S, Tsuchida T, Kobayashi K, Fukuda M, Ishii R, Tanaka R, Ito J (1983) Treatment of moyamoya disease by temporal muscle graft ‘encephalo-myo-synangiosis’. Childs Brain 10: 1–15 92 67 83 2.23 4
Abbott R, Forem SL, Johann M (1989) Selective posterior rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity: a review. Childs Nervous System 5: 337–346 95 66 74 2.75 Review
Dias MS, Walker ML (1992) The embryogenesis of complex dysraphic malformations: a disorder of gastrulation? Pediatric Neurosurgery 18: 229–253 95 66 68 3.14 Review
Osaka K, Handa H, Matsumoto S, Yasuda M (1980) Development of the cerebrospinal fluid pathway in the normal and abnormal human embryos. Childs Brain 6: 26–38 95 66 96 2.00 Other
Suzuki J, Takaku A, Kodama N, Sato S (1975) An attempt to treat cerebrovascular ‘Moyamoya’ disease in children. Childs Brain 1: 193–206 95 66 100 1.74 4
Villani RM, Tomei G, Bello L, Sganzerla E, Ambrosi B, Re T, Barilari MG (1997) Long-term results of treatment for craniopharyngioma in children. Childs Nervous System 13: 397–405 95 66 49 4.13 3
Ronning C, Sundet K, Due-Tonnessen B, Lundar T, Helseth E (2005) Persistent cognitive dysfunction secondary to cerebellar injury in patients treated for posterior fossa tumors in childhood. Pediatric Neurosurgery 41:15–21 100 65 9 8.13 Other

The first rank represents the descending rank order by raw citations. The second rank (‘Adjusted Rank’) is based on the adjusted citation index (number of citations divided by years since initial publication). The column titled “Class” is the class of evidence for the article based on the 2011 “Oxford Centre Level of Evidence” classification scheme