This is an audio recording of Episode 3 of ‘Eye JC: An online Journal Club brought to you by ESCRS’ This journal club is hosted by Basak Bostanci Ceran (Turkey) and Imran Yusuf (UK). We are delighted to welcome guest panellists Wolfgang Mayer (Germany) and Medhi Shajari (Germany). The third journal club covered the following paper: “Risk factors for dropped nucleus in cataract surgery as reflected by the European Registry of Quality Outcomes for Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. 2020 Feb 1;46(2):287-92.” This paper has been made open-access by the JCRS.