Global trends in neurosurgical research: Insights from the top 100 most-cited articles

IF 0.7 4区医学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Neurocirugia Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.neucir.2025.500656

Roser Garcia-Armengol , Sebastian Andres Menéndez-Girón , Cristina Hostalot , Ana Cristina Pérez-Balaguero , Carlos Javier Dominguez , Ana Rodriguez-Hernandez

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Abstract

Objective

This study aimed to identify and analyze the 100 most-cited articles in neurosurgical journals over the past 20 years.

Methods

The Thomson Reuters Web of Science citation index was used to analyze articles from high-impact neurosurgical journals identified via Journal Citation Reports. Data extracted included citations, citations per year, title, authors, year, country, institution, journal, study type, and thematic area. Citation analysis identified the most impactful articles. A bibliometric analysis compared trends between 2012–2022 and 2001–2011. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation were applied to examine the relationship between publication year and citation count. Stata V14.2 was used for statistical analysis.

Results

Citations for the top 100 articles ranged from 194 to 1,501. “Journal of Neurosurgery” and “Neurosurgery” published the most-cited articles, with peak productivity in 2012 and 2013. The USA was the leading country in article contributions. Neuro-oncology, especially tumor studies, was the dominant thematic field.

Conclusions

The bibliometric analysis highlighted a strong centralization in neurosurgical research, with most highly cited articles coming from two major journals, largely from the United States. This reveals the significant influence of a few key contributors in global neurosurgery.

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神经外科研究的全球趋势：来自被引用次数最多的前100篇文章的见解

目的对近20年来神经外科期刊上被引频次最高的100篇论文进行分类分析。方法采用Thomson Reuters Web of Science引文索引，对通过Journal citation Reports检索到的高影响力神经外科期刊的文章进行分析。提取的数据包括引文、每年引文、标题、作者、年份、国家、机构、期刊、研究类型和专题领域。引用分析确定了最具影响力的文章。文献计量分析比较了2012-2022年和2001-2011年的趋势。运用描述性统计和Pearson相关检验出版年份与被引次数之间的关系。使用Stata V14.2进行统计分析。结果前100篇文章的引用数在194 ~ 1501之间。《Journal of Neurosurgery》和《Neurosurgery》发表的文章被引用次数最多，在2012年和2013年达到高峰。美国是文章贡献最多的国家。神经肿瘤学，特别是肿瘤研究，是主要的主题领域。文献计量学分析强调了神经外科研究的高度集中，大多数高被引文章来自两大期刊，主要来自美国。这揭示了全球神经外科的几个关键贡献者的重大影响。

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Neurocirugia 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

1.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Neurocirugía is the official Journal of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC). It is published every 2 months (6 issues per year). Neurocirugía will consider for publication, original clinical and experimental scientific works associated with neurosurgery and other related neurological sciences. All manuscripts are submitted for review by experts in the field (peer review) and are carried out anonymously (double blind). The Journal accepts works written in Spanish or English.