Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
J Neurosurg. 2010 Feb;112(2):223-32. doi: 10.3171/2009.12.JNS091599.
The number of citations a published article receives is a measure of its impact in the scientific community. This study identifies and characterizes the current 100 top-cited articles in journals specifically dedicated to neurosurgery.
Neurosurgical journals were identified using the Institute for Scientific Information Journal Citation Reports. A search was performed using Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science for articles appearing in each of these journals. The 100 top-cited articles were selected and analyzed.
The 100 most cited manuscripts in neurosurgical journals appeared in 3 of 13 journals dedicated to neurosurgery. These included 79 in the Journal of Neurosurgery, 11 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, and 10 in Neurosurgery. The individual citation counts for these articles ranged from 287 to 1515. Seventy-seven percent of articles were published between 1976 and 1995. Representation varied widely across neurosurgical disciplines, with cerebrovascular diseases leading (43 articles), followed by trauma (27 articles), stereotactic and functional neurosurgery (13 articles), and neurooncology (12 articles). The study types included 5 randomized trials, 5 cooperative studies, 1 observational cohort study, 69 case series, 8 review articles, and 12 animal studies. Thirty articles dealt with surgical management and 12 with nonsurgical management. There were 15 studies of natural history of disease or outcomes after trauma, 11 classification or grading scales, and 10 studies of human pathophysiology.
The most cited articles in neurosurgical journals are trials evaluating surgical or medical therapies, descriptions of novel techniques, or systems for classifying or grading disease. The time of publication, field of study, nature of the work, and the journal in which the work appears are possible determinants of the likelihood of citation and impact.
发表文章的被引频次是衡量其在科学界影响力的一个指标。本研究确定并描述了专门针对神经外科学期刊的当前被引频次排名前 100 的文章。
使用科学信息研究所期刊引文报告确定神经外科期刊。使用科学信息研究所 Web of Science 在这些期刊中的每一种期刊上搜索发表的文章。选择并分析了 100 篇被引频次最高的文章。
在专门的神经外科期刊中，100 篇被引频次最高的手稿发表在 13 种神经外科期刊中的 3 种期刊上。其中包括《神经外科学杂志》79 篇、《神经病学、神经外科学与精神病学杂志》11 篇和《神经外科学》10 篇。这些文章的个体引用次数从 287 到 1515 不等。77%的文章发表于 1976 年至 1995 年期间。文章在神经外科学科中的分布差异很大，脑血管疾病（43 篇）位居首位，其次是创伤（27 篇）、立体定向和功能神经外科（13 篇）和神经肿瘤学（12 篇）。研究类型包括 5 项随机试验、5 项合作研究、1 项观察性队列研究、69 项病例系列研究、8 篇综述文章和 12 项动物研究。30 篇文章涉及手术治疗，12 篇涉及非手术治疗。有 15 篇关于疾病自然史或创伤后结局的研究、11 项分类或分级量表以及 10 项关于人类病理生理学的研究。
神经外科期刊中被引频次最高的文章是评估手术或药物治疗效果的试验、描述新的技术或疾病分类或分级系统的文章。发表时间、研究领域、工作性质和发表文章的期刊可能是被引频次和影响力的决定因素。
