A Bibliometric Analysis of the Most Cited Articles in Neurocritical Care Research

AbstractBibliometric analyses may indicate the most active journals, authors, countries, institutions and specialties by evaluating the most cited articles in a given research field. To the authors ’ knowledge, there is no bibliometric analysis regarding neurocritical care research. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze and to provide a scope of the current scientific production in this area. The 100 most cited articles in the neurocritical care research were retrieved from the research “(neurocritical) AND (care)” in the Scopus database. The variables collected and included in this analysis were: number of citations, article title, first author’s name, year and journal of publication and its impact factor (IF), specialty, affiliation and country of the corresponding author a t the time of publication, and category of the article. Also, these variables were assessed for primary research only. The articles were published in 34 different journals from 1995 to 2017, with a mean citation number of 109.36, ranging from 44 to 540.Neurocritical Care (23 articles in top 100 and 2190 citations, IF  = 3.163) andCritical Care Medicine (20 articles and 2896 citations in top 100, IF  = 6.630) were the journals with the greatest number of articles and citations, respectively.Neurocritical Care also had the highest number of primary research papers (15 articles, accounting for 850 citations). Excepting one article from Asia (Singapore) and one from Oceania (Australia), a...
Source: Neurocritical Care - Category: Neurology Source Type: research