Highly cited publications in pediatric neurosurgery: part 2

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• 作者：Nickalus R. Khan (1)
  Tyler Auschwitz (1)
  Joseph H. McAbee (2)
  Frederick A. Boop (1) (3) (4)
  Paul Klimo Jr (1) (3) (4)
  
• 关键词：Citation ; Analysis ; Articles ; Pediatric ; Neurosurgery
• 刊名：Child's Nervous System
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：29
• 期：12
• 页码：2215-2228
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• 作者单位：Nickalus R. Khan (1)
  Tyler Auschwitz (1)
  Joseph H. McAbee (2)
  Frederick A. Boop (1) (3) (4)
  Paul Klimo Jr (1) (3) (4)
  
  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
  2. School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
  3. Le Bonheur Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children Hospital, 50 N. Dunlap Street, Memphis, TN, 38103, USA
  4. Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute, Memphis, TN, USA
  
• ISSN：1433-0350

文摘

Purpose Citation counting can be used to evaluate the impact an article has made on its discipline. This study characterizes the most cited articles related to clinical pediatric neurosurgery as of July 2013. Methods A list of search terms was computed using Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WOS) to capture the 100 most cited articles in the overall literature and the top 50 articles from 2002 to 2012 related to clinical pediatric neurosurgery from non-dedicated pediatric neurosurgical journals. The following information was recorded for each article: number of authors, country of origin, citation count adjusted for number of years in print, topic, and level of evidence. Results The 100 most cited articles appeared in 44 journals. Publication dates ranged from 1986 to 2008; two were class 1 evidence, nine class 2, 26 class 3, and 52 class 4. Citations ranged from 90 to 321 (mean=131); average time-adjusted citation count was 10. The 50 most cited articles from 2002 to 2012 appeared in 31 journals; four were class 2 evidence, 15 class 3, and 21 class 4. Citations ranged from 68 to 245 (mean=103); average time-adjusted citation count was 13. Conclusion Overall, papers from non-pediatric neurosurgical journals had higher citation counts and improved level of evidence grades compared to articles from pediatric neurosurgical periodicals. An original paper related to clinical pediatric neurosurgery in a non-pediatric neurosurgical journal having a total citation count of 10050 or more and an average citation count of 105 per year or more can be considered a high-impact publication.