MiscellaneousBibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Cited Cardiovascular Articles
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Methods
In September 2014, we searched the Scopus Library database (www.scopus.com) for citations of published cardiovascular articles. One hundred seven journals were included in our investigation under the Institute of Science Information Web of Science subject category “cardiology, cardiovascular, and heart.” In this list, Stroke, Statistics in Medicine, Diabetes Care, Autoimmunity Reviews, and Anesthesia and Analgesia were not consistent with the focus of our investigation and, hence, excluded. No
Results
The number of citations for the top 100 cited articles ranged from 331 to 3,484 (Table 1). The median number of citations was 515 (interquartile range 391.25). The median number of authors was 12 (interquartile range 13.25). The top 100 articles were published from 1985 to 2013, with most articles (n = 42) published in the 5-year period from 2006 to 2010 (Figure 1).
The journal with the highest number of top 100 cited articles was Circulation, with 36 (Table 2) followed by European Heart Journal
Discussion
In our comprehensive list of the most highly cited articles in cardiovascular medicine, we found that the top 2 articles were guidelines regarding the management of arterial hypertension published by the European Society of Cardiology. Both these studies were the only articles to cross 3,000 citations. This is not surprising considering that hypertension is projected to effect 1.5 billion people in the next 10 years and is estimated to cause 9.4 million deaths annually.4, 5 These high numbers
Disclosures
There are no conflicts of interests. There was no commercial funding for this study. The authors have full control over all the data. The study will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright owners.
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