Fei Xinxing, Zeng Qiu, Wang Jianxiong, Gao Yaqian, Xu Fangyuan
Department of Psychiatry Chengdu Eighth People's Hospital (Geriatric Hospital of Chengdu Medical College), Chengdu, China.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 6;13:931632. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.931632. eCollection 2022.
Delirium is a cognitive disorder with complex etiology, which brings a great burden to social health care. Articles with high citation frequency can provide important information about the current research situation in a certain field. Web of Science was used to search the 100 most-cited articles and we extracted key information, such as the authors, countries/regions, institutions, journals, and study types of these articles. CiteSpace was used to visually analyze the keywords. Our bibliometric analysis shows that the attention in this field continues to rise. Authors from the United States published the most articles and Inouye SK is the most influential author in the field. The journals that published these articles have high impact factors. Cohort studies are the main cited articles in this field, and there are a large number of systematic reviews or meta-analyses of cohort studies. Risk factors for delirium, psychometric evaluation, hospital care, and various clinical study design are still the focus of research. In short, we summarized the 100 most-cited articles in the field of delirium to identify the current status and global trends. These results enable researchers to understand the quality and trend of research in the field of delirium and make better use of the classical literature.
谵妄是一种病因复杂的认知障碍，给社会医疗保健带来了巨大负担。高被引频次的文章能够提供某一领域当前研究状况的重要信息。我们利用科学网检索了100篇被引频次最高的文章，并提取了这些文章的关键信息，如作者、国家/地区、机构、期刊以及研究类型等。我们使用CiteSpace对关键词进行可视化分析。我们的文献计量分析表明，该领域的关注度持续上升。美国的作者发表的文章最多，Inouye SK是该领域最具影响力的作者。发表这些文章的期刊具有较高的影响因子。队列研究是该领域被引用的主要文章类型，并且有大量针对队列研究的系统评价或荟萃分析。谵妄的危险因素、心理测量评估、医院护理以及各种临床研究设计仍然是研究的重点。简而言之，我们总结了谵妄领域100篇被引频次最高的文章，以确定当前的研究现状和全球趋势。这些结果能够使研究人员了解谵妄领域的研究质量和趋势，并更好地利用经典文献。
