ReviewEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2017
Spinal cord injury: a review of the most-cited publications.
Review in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Activin A enhances neurofunctional recovery following traumatic spinal cord injury by inhibiting autophagy.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Review
- Liposome-Hydrogel Composites for Controlled Drug Delivery Applications.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Article
- Ginseng extract and ginsenosides improve neurological function and promote antioxidant effects in rats with spinal cord injury: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Journal of ginseng research · 2022Review
- Therapeutic effect of regulating autophagy in spinal cord injury: a network meta-analysis of direct and indirect comparisons.Neural regeneration research · 2020Article
- Care and research for spinal cord injury: A changing landscape.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2020Article
- Citation analysis of the most influential articles on traumatic spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2020Article
- An epidemiological study of traumatic spinal cord injuries in the fastest aging area in Japan.Spinal cord · 2019Article
- A mapping review of randomized controlled trials in the spinal cord injury research literature.Spinal cord · 2018Review
- Novel multi-drug delivery hydrogel using scar-homing liposomes improves spinal cord injury repair.Theranostics · 2018Article
- Stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury: a meta-analysis of treatment effectiveness and safety.Neural regeneration research · 2017Article
- The Temporal Pattern, Flux, and Function of Autophagy in Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- Unstable thoracolumbar injuries: A bibliometric analysis of the most influential papers.Journal of craniovertebral junction & spineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThe objective of this study was to identify and review the most-cited articles on spinal cord injury (SCI). Citation analyses showcase the relative influence of individual articles in a given field. In addition to distinguishing publications of particular quality and impact and well-developed areas of the literature, citation analyses allow for an understanding of the direction in which a field of research is headed.
methodsA multi-disciplinary bibliographic index was used to identify the 50 SCI articles with the most lifetime citations, and the 50 SCI articles with the highest annual citation rates. Studies were categorized into one of six categories based on their primary focus: treatment, pathology/natural history, predictor of outcome, methods, epidemiology, or assessment measure.
resultsWe report that 40.0 and 56.0 % of SCI papers with the most lifetime citations and highest annual citation rates, respectively, were systematic reviews or meta-analyses, indicating that some of the most referenced papers in SCI are not primary publications. Further, there appears to be a greater international presence in SCI research. In the highest annual citation rate cohort, 14.0 % of papers were a product of international collaboration, 50.0 % were published by outside of the United States, and the average year of publication was 2005 ± 5.4; the comparable numbers for papers that comprised the highest lifetime citation cohort were, respectively, 8.0, 28.0 %, and 1998 ± 9.2. Treatment and pathology/natural history of SCI were a common research focus in both citation cohorts, consistent with ongoing efforts to better understand and manage this injury.
conclusionsThis comprehensive review provides a cross-sectional summary and bibliometric analysis of some of the most influential literature in SCI, and compliments existing systematic reviews and meta-analysis in the field by establishing which areas of the literature are growing and which have been well developed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
27329616What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.