The top 100 cited neurorehabilitation papers

Abstract

Abstract. BACKGROUND:Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, assessment approaches and treatment methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. OBJECTIVE: The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. METHODS: A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. RESULTS:The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship trends suggest that top cited papers result from group endeavors, with 90% of the papers involving a collaboration among 3 or more authors. CONCLUSION: Treatment studies, often focused on stroke, appear to have the highest impact in the field of neurorehabilitation.

At the Leading Front of Neuroscience: A Bibliometric Study of the 100 Most-Cited Articles

“…Similar to previous publications (Ponce and Lozano, 2010; Kim, E. S. et al, 2016; Kim, H. J. et al, 2016; Kreutzer et al, 2017), we evaluated the top 100 most-cited neuroscience articles by convenience. From the visualized citation network (Figure 1), it could be seen that the articles investigating the brain connectivity (green), particularly the resting state, were relatively published more recently (Raichle et al, 2001; Fox et al, 2005; Fox and Raichle, 2007; Bullmore and Sporns, 2009).…”

“…The choice of data source and the search strategy were adopted from previous reports (Ponce and Lozano, 2010; Kim, E. S. et al, 2016; Kim, H. J. et al, 2016; Kreutzer et al, 2017). The source of data was the Clarivate Analytics-owned, Web-based, multidisciplinary database Web of Science (WoS), which provides the bibliometric data of published scientific articles starting from 1945.…”

“…There are several up-to-date publications that report on the 100 most-cited articles in various subfields of neuroscience, such as neurointervention (Kim, E. S. et al, 2016), neuroimaging (Kim, H. J. et al, 2016), neurorehabilitation (Kreutzer et al, 2017) and neurosurgery (Ponce and Lozano, 2010). However, to our knowledge, there is a lack of published papers that provide an overall evaluation of the most-cited neuroscience articles.…”

The top 100 cited cholesterol papers

“…(1) Methods for measuring cholesterol (2) Cholesterol metabolism/homeostasis (3) Cholesterol and disease (4) Cholesterol lowering drugs (5) Cholesterol biochemistry/biophysics While the major interest of the journal is in the fifth category we felt it would also be interesting to look at the wider picture to mark this anniversary. Citation data are not readily available for papers published more than 100 years ago and for this reason we focused on the last 100 years and also, for comparison the last 10 years.…”

“…Such an analysis of cited papers can also identify trends, provide guidance for future research and highlight where there are insufficiencies in the current literature [1,2].…”