• Pioneer in using 3D still images for teaching and publishing purposes in the field of Microneurosurgical Anatomy, since 1995, and related cover of the Journal of Neurosurgey of December 2001.

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• First Selected Reference of the 30th Neurosurgery Anniversary Commemorative Edition Supplement, topic Anatomy, in 2007, with the article: Ribas GC, et al. Surgical anatomy of microneurosurgical sulcal key-points. Neurosurgery. 2006;(ONS Suppl4):ONS-177-ONS-209.

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• Author of the most accessed article of the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group in 2010, with the paper: Ribas GC. The cerebral sulci and gyri. Neurosurg Focus. 2010; 28(2):E2, with 5573 accesses (from Atypon Report: Summary Report for Calendar Year 2010. Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 2011).

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• Contributor of Gray’s Anatomy Forty-First Edition, with the  chapter “Anatomy of the Cerebral Hemispheres”, 2015.

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• Member of World Academy of Neurological Surgery (WANS), which takes one member of each country plus an additional membership for every 1000 neurosurgeons in that country, with the total Active Membership limited to 100 members, since 2015.

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• Publication o the book “Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy: Brain Architecture and Anatomically Oriented Microneurosurgery” by the prestigious Cambridge University Press, March 2018.

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• Lecturer of the distinguished Harland-Smith Lecture at the University of Toronto in April 2019.

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• Having published more than 50 articles and more than 40 book chapters, and having joined the publication of 3 books.

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• Professor of Neurosurgical Microanatomy yearly courses in foreign centers, highlighting the courses related with the University of Virginia and the Seattle Science Foundation in the USA, the University of Cambridge and University College of London in UK, and the Yeditepe University, in Istanbul, Turkey.