Research Department, Association of Future African Neurosurgeons, Yaounde, Cameroon; Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Bel Campus University of Technology, Kinsha, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2021 May;149:226-231.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.01.121. Epub 2021 Feb 3.
WORLD NEUROSURGERY (WN) is among the most influential peer-reviewed neurosurgery journals and has had an explicitly global focus historically. The goal of the current study was to perform quantitative bibliographic and social network analyses to identify key contributors and trends influencing article citation patterns.
WN articles were searched using Web of Science and the sampling frame January 1, 1990, to June 18, 2020. Articles were sorted in decreasing order of total citations; the 200 most cited articles were included. BibExcel was used to calculate the H-index of the authors of the top 200 most cited articles; VOSViewer was used to visualize networks by document, author, and keyword.
Twenty-one individual authors published at least 2 first-author articles within the 200 most cited manuscripts, including Hakuba (4 articles), Jaaskelainen (4 articles), Cho (3 articles), and Rhoton (3 articles). Authors with the highest H-index were Hernesniemi (5), Rhoton (4), Jaaskelainen (4), Hakuba (4), and Ausman (4). Articles by Huang (2006), Wieser (1982), and Foo (1981) had the largest number of links to other articles (connections between nodes). Ausman articles demonstrated the highest number of collaborations with coauthors who had also published top 200 articles. The most prevalent topics among included articles were neuro-oncology in the 1990s, cerebrovascular in the early 2000s, and skull base in the 2010s.
Bibliographic analysis suggests that WN has published a wide range of novel and impactful research studies in neurosurgery, which collectively demonstrate strong collaborative trends in association with advancement of new tools and techniques in all aspects of neurosurgery.
《世界神经外科学杂志》（WN）是最具影响力的同行评审神经外科学期刊之一，历史上一直具有明确的全球重点。本研究的目的是进行定量文献计量学和社会网络分析，以确定影响文章引用模式的关键贡献者和趋势。
使用 Web of Science 搜索 WN 文章，采样框架为 1990 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 6 月 18 日。文章按总引文数递减排序；纳入前 200 篇被引最多的文章。使用 BibExcel 计算前 200 篇被引最多文章的作者 H 指数；使用 VOSViewer 按文献、作者和关键词可视化网络。
21 位作者在 200 篇被引最多的手稿中至少发表了 2 篇第一作者文章，包括 Hakuba（4 篇）、Jaaskelainen（4 篇）、Cho（3 篇）和 Rhoton（3 篇）。H 指数最高的作者是 Hernesniemi（5 篇）、Rhoton（4 篇）、Jaaskelainen（4 篇）、Hakuba（4 篇）和 Ausman（4 篇）。Huang（2006 年）、Wieser（1982 年）和 Foo（1981 年）的文章与其他文章的链接最多（节点之间的连接）。Ausman 的文章与也发表过前 200 篇文章的合著者的合作最多。纳入文章中最常见的主题是 20 世纪 90 年代的神经肿瘤学、21 世纪初的脑血管病学和 21 世纪 10 年代的颅底。
文献计量学分析表明，WN 发表了广泛的神经外科新的和有影响力的研究，这些研究共同展示了在神经外科各个方面使用新工具和技术的强烈合作趋势。
