ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2025
Mapping influence in pediatric craniopharyngioma: the 50 most cited articles.
Review in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo identify the 50 most-cited articles on pediatric craniopharyngioma and examine how citation patterns reflect historical and contemporary shifts in clinical management.
methodsA two-step literature search was conducted in Web of Science through 2024. Articles primarily focused on pediatric craniopharyngioma were included; non-English and non-human studies were excluded. The 50 most-cited articles from 1945 to 2024 were analyzed for citation metrics, topic distribution, authorship, and temporal trends. To better capture emerging clinical paradigms, a complementary analysis identified the Top 25 most-cited articles published between 2014 and 2024.
resultsThe Top 50 articles accrued 86-464 citations each, with the most cited published by Bunin et al. (498 citations). Publications spanned 1977-2019, with the 2000-2010 decade most productive (19 articles) and the 2010s accruing the most total citations (6124); 2023 was the most cited year (589 citations). Articles appeared across 22 journals, with JCEM,Journal of Neurosurgery, IJROBP, and Child's Nervous System and being the most represented. H.L. Müller was the most prolific author, with nine first-author publications. Topic distribution emphasized epidemiology and classification updates, as well as outcomes (n = 23), surgical techniques (n = 18), adjuvant therapies (n = 8), and clinical trials (n = 8). Citation peaks co-occurred with practice changes, including the transition from routine gross-total resection to minimally invasive surgery with adjuvant therapies, and adoption of endoscopic endonasal approaches.
conclusionsCitation trends align with the field's evolution from routine gross-total resection toward hypothalamus-sparing surgery and multidisciplinary long-term management. The recent literature demonstrates rapid growth in minimally invasive techniques, precision radiotherapy, and molecularly informed therapies, though these advances remain underrepresented in cumulative citation rankings due to their recency. Future priorities include prospective multicenter outcome studies, integration of molecular insights into pediatric frameworks, and long-term neurocognitive follow-up in the context of modern radiotherapy techniques.
Indexed as
Identifiers
41447417What 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.