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ReviewWorld neurosurgery2023

The Top 100 Most Cited Neurosurgical Articles on COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Jehad Al-Habsi, Afaf Al-Hatmi, Tariq Al-Saadi

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Review in World neurosurgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jehad Al-HabsiCollege of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Afaf Al-HatmiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Khoula Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Tariq Al-SaadiDepartment of Neurology & Neurosurgery - Montreal Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, QC, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Neurosurgery, Khoula Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Electronic address: t.dhiyab@hotmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. This study uses a bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most cited neurosurgical COVID-19-related articles to date to identify and determine their characteristics.

methodsThe Scopus library was searched for all published articles on neurosurgery and COVID-19. The main keywords were used for the search "neurosurgery, neurosurgical, and COVID-19". English language articles reporting on neurosurgical aspects during COVID-19 were included in the study. The retrieved top 100 articles were analyzed, and the following characteristics were noted for each article: 1) article title, 2) year of publication, 3) citations, 4) first author, 5) corresponding author, 6) names of other authors, 7) journal name 8) article type, 9) study focus and 10) involvement of the patient.

resultsOur search obtained articles published from December 2019 until 29 March 2022. It was observed that 93% of the documents were published in 2020. The top 100 articles have been cited 2649 times in total. The most cited article was "Factors Associated with Surgical Mortality and Complications among Patients with and without Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy" by Doglietto F. et al., published in JAMA Neurology in June 2020, with 124 citations.

conclusionsThis analysis facilitated in making evidence-based clinical decisions and drawing the attention of researchers to identify and contribute to the increasing scientific work by identifying the top 100 most cited neurosurgical COVID-19-related articles published.

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COVID-19NeurologyNeurosurgeryBibliometricsHumansNeurosurgical ProceduresCoronavirus disease 2019COVID-19Neurological surgeryNeurosurgical

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PMID36481440
PMCPMC9721376

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