World Neurosurg. 2020 Mar 5. pii: S1878-8750(20)30431-9. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.02.156. [Epub ahead of print]
The 100 most cited papers about Brain Metastases.
Panagopoulos D1, Karydakis P2, Giakoumettis D3, Themistocleous M4.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
There is a vast amount of published articles, centered on brain metastases.
OBJECTIVE:
To present the 100 most-cited articles dedicated to brain metastasis and to accomplish a broad literature review.
METHODS:
In December 2019, we performed a title- focused search using Thomson Reuters Web of Science database in order to identify the most cited articles centered on brain metastatic disease. Our search query term was based on using the following algorithm: “brain metastases” OR “brain metastasis” OR “brain metastatic disease” OR “cerebral metastases” OR “cerebral metastasis” OR “cerebral metastatic disease”. Afterwards, we reviewed the results in order to certify that they were relevant to the purposes of our research protocol. The 100 most cited papers were chosen and further analyzed.
RESULTS:
Our search resulted in 11.579 articles, published from 1975 until the completion of our survey. The most cited article was published by Patchell, RA et al in 1990. The paper has received 1862 citations, with an average 62.07 citations per year, while the last in our list was published by Gaspar, Laurie E., et al, in 2010, with 195 total citations, and an average of 19.50 citations per year. Countries with the most high-cited papers included USA (75 records), followed by Canada (16 records).
CONCLUSIONS:
We discovered the top 100 most-cited articles centered on brain metastasis, all of which exhibit a potentially increased level of interest, as they are meaningful scientific reports. Apart from that, we reviewed the historical development and advances in brain metastasis research and relevant points of interest, alongside with the relevant contributions of different authors, fields of special interest, and countries. A significant proportion of the most cited articles were written by authors whose specialty was not neurosurgery, or by neurosurgeons that were supported by colleagues dedicated in other medical fields. As a consequence, many of these aforementioned articles were not published in neurosurgery- dedicated journals.
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KEYWORDS:
Analysis; Articles; Bibliometric; Brain Metastasis; CitationPMID: 32147557 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.02.156
