Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
World Neurosurg. 2023 Jul;175:e754-e768. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2023.04.015. Epub 2023 Apr 8.
The Chiari malformations present heterogeneous entities, raising many questions regarding their natural history, pathophysiology, treatment options, and prognosis. Bibliometric analyses have emerged as a method to assess the impact of articles in current clinical practice.
The most cited articles were identified via Scopus Library by using the keywords "Chiari," "Arnold-Chiari," and "Chiari malformation." The 100 most cited articles were then assembled and analyzed in detail.
The top 100 articles yielded a mean of 155,28 citations per article, ranging from 87 to 896 citations, and from 1.63 to 38.96 per year. Years of publications ranged from 1950 to 2015. Oakes was the most cited author (n = 7), followed by Tubbs and Milhorat. The country with the highest cited articles was the United States (n = 63), followed by the United Kingdom (n = 6), Italy (n = 5), Spain (n = 5), Japan (n = 4), and Germany (n = 3). Neurosurgery is the journal with the most highly cited articles (n = 21), followed by Journal of Neurosurgery (n = 19). Most articles focused on Chiari malformation type I (n = 83). The topic discussed most often was imaging (n = 63), followed by the evaluation of treatment outcome (n = 58), clinical signs and symptoms (n = 57), and the role of surgery (n = 56).
The present bibliometric analysis provides a succinct appraisal of the most cited articles concerning Chiari malformation, allowing a deeper insight in this area and its main influential articles with their impact on current clinical practice and future research.
Chiari 畸形表现为多种实体，这引发了许多关于其自然史、病理生理学、治疗选择和预后的问题。文献计量分析已成为评估当前临床实践中文章影响的一种方法。
通过 Scopus 图书馆使用关键词“Chiari”、“Arnold-Chiari”和“Chiari 畸形”来确定引用最多的文章。然后，将这 100 篇最具代表性的文章进行了详细分析。
前 100 篇文章的平均引用率为每篇文章 155.28 次，引用次数从 87 次到 896 次不等，每年引用次数从 1.63 次到 38.96 次不等。发表年限从 1950 年到 2015 年不等。引用次数最多的作者是 Oakes（n = 7），其次是 Tubbs 和 Milhorat。引用文章最多的国家是美国（n = 63），其次是英国（n = 6）、意大利（n = 5）、西班牙（n = 5）、日本（n = 4）和德国（n = 3）。发表文章最多的期刊是《神经外科》（n = 21），其次是《神经外科学杂志》（n = 19）。大多数文章都集中在 Chiari 畸形 I 型（n = 83）。讨论最多的主题是影像学（n = 63），其次是治疗效果评估（n = 58）、临床症状和体征（n = 57）和手术作用（n = 56）。
本文献计量分析对有关 Chiari 畸形的最具代表性的文章进行了简要评估，使我们对该领域及其主要的有影响力的文章有了更深入的了解，这些文章对当前的临床实践和未来的研究产生了影响。
