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ArticleThe world journal of men's health2021

Highly Cited Articles in the Field of Male Infertility and Antioxidants: A Scientometric Analysis.

Ashok Agarwal, Manesh Kumar Panner Selvam, Saradha Baskaran, Renata Finelli, Kristian Leisegang, Cătălina Barbăroșie, Peter Natesan Pushparaj, Kathy Amy Robert, Rafael F Ambar, Concetta Iovine and 2 more

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Article in The world journal of men's health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Ashok AgarwalAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. agarwaa@ccf.org.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-1026
Manesh Kumar Panner SelvamAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9120-2278
Saradha BaskaranAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-8680
Renata FinelliAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-6407
Kristian LeisegangSchool of Natural Medicine, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3003-8048
Cătălina BarbăroșieDepartment of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2854-9834
Peter Natesan PushparajKing Abdulaziz University, Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7574-1880
Kathy Amy RobertAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9448-6341
Rafael F AmbarUrology Department of Centro Universitario em Saude do ABC/Andrology Group at Ideia Fertil Institute of Human Reproduction, Santo André, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3496-2895
Concetta IovineDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9636-5842
Damayanthi DurairajanayagamDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9049-0215
Ralf HenkelAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1128-2982

Funding

Cleveland Clinic
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe objective of this scientometric analysis was to recognize the top 100 cited articles on 'Male infertility and Antioxidants' and analyze its publication characteristics. MATERIALS AND

methodsThe Scopus database was used to retrieve related articles and the top 100 identified based on citation rate.

resultsThe articles were published in 56 journals between 1995 and 2019 with a median (interquartile range) citation score of 17 (5-62). Among the top 100 articles, 69 were clinical studies, which included controlled and blinded (33.33%), prospective (27.54%), randomized-controlled trials (26.09%), uncontrolled (11.59%), and retrospective (1.45%) studies. In addition to conventional semen parameters, advanced sperm function tests such as oxidative stress (51%) and sperm DNA damage (23%) were reported. Pregnancy rate (33%) was found to be the most reported reproductive outcome. Antioxidant therapy was mostly investigated in male cohorts with sperm abnormalities such as asthenozoospermia (28%) and clinical conditions such as idiopathic male infertility (20%), varicocele/varicocelectomy (17%) and general male infertility (16%).

conclusionsThe most influential publications on antioxidants and male infertility were identified for the first time in the literature. This will serve as a reliable source of information for researchers and clinicians alike.

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AntioxidantsClinical trialInfertility, malePublicationsResearch

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PMID33663027
PMCPMC8443986

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