Usman Muhammad Shariq, Siddiqi Tariq Jamal, Khan Muhammad Shahzeb, Fatima Kaneez, Butler Javed, Manning Warren J, Khosa Faisal
Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Am J Cardiol. 2017 Oct 15;120(8):1440-1449. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.07.035. Epub 2017 Jul 29.
Bibliometric analyses can help researchers and research funding agencies determine which areas of medicine need appropriate research attention. Citation classics of several specialties and subspecialties have been published; however, a literature search did not turn up any in the field of valvular heart disease (VHD). The main objective of this analysis was to overcome this paucity by identifying the top 100 cited articles in VHD and to assess their characteristics. We chose Scopus as our database, from where relevant articles were extracted after a thorough search by 2 independent researchers. A list of the top 100 cited articles was prepared, after which a detailed analysis of the list was conducted. The top-cited articles were published in the 63-year era starting from 1951, with the most articles published in the 10-year interval of 2001 to 2010. The citations of the articles ranged from 438 to 2,717 with a median of 609.5. Manuscripts from our top-cited list originated from 25 different countries. Most of the articles in the top 100 list were published in high-impact journals, with about a third of the articles published in Circulation (n = 27). Our study also reveals that the current focus of researchers in the field is on transcatheter aortic valve replacement, and therefore, funding in this area is likely to result in impactful studies. In conclusion, our study highlights the characteristics of high-impact articles in the field of VHD, and this information may be useful for investigators planning to conduct studies in this area of medicine in the future.
文献计量分析可以帮助研究人员和研究资助机构确定医学的哪些领域需要适当的研究关注。几个专业和亚专业的经典引文已经发表；然而，文献检索未发现瓣膜性心脏病（VHD）领域的相关内容。本分析的主要目的是通过识别VHD领域被引用次数最多的100篇文章来克服这一不足，并评估它们的特征。我们选择Scopus作为我们的数据库，由两名独立研究人员进行全面搜索后从中提取相关文章。列出了被引用次数最多的100篇文章的清单，之后对该清单进行了详细分析。被引用次数最多的文章发表于1951年开始的63年期间，其中发表文章最多的是2001年至2010年这10年期间。文章的被引用次数从438次到2717次不等，中位数为609.5次。我们清单中被引用次数最多的稿件来自25个不同国家。100篇清单中的大多数文章发表在高影响力期刊上，约三分之一的文章发表在《循环》杂志上（n = 27）。我们的研究还表明，该领域研究人员目前的重点是经导管主动脉瓣置换术，因此，该领域的资金投入可能会产生有影响力的研究成果。总之，我们的研究突出了VHD领域高影响力文章的特征，这些信息可能对未来计划在该医学领域开展研究的研究人员有用。
