Jeffrey S Kreutzer1, Amma A Agyemang1, David Weedon2, Nathan Zasler3, Melissa Oliver4, Aaron A Sorensen5, Saskia van Wijngaarden2, Eileen Leahy2. 1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA. 2. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3. Concussion Care Centre of Virginia Ltd., Tree of Life Services, Inc., Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia, VA, USA. 4. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA. 5. ÜberResearch - Digital Science, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, assessment approaches and treatment methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. OBJECTIVE: The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. METHODS: A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. RESULTS: The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship trends suggest that top cited papers result from group endeavors, with 90% of the papers involving a collaboration among 3 or more authors. CONCLUSION: Treatment studies, often focused on stroke, appear to have the highest impact in the field of neurorehabilitation.
BACKGROUND: Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, assessment approaches and treatment methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. OBJECTIVE: The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. METHODS: A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. RESULTS: The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship trends suggest that top cited papers result from group endeavors, with 90% of the papers involving a collaboration among 3 or more authors. CONCLUSION: Treatment studies, often focused on stroke, appear to have the highest impact in the field of neurorehabilitation.
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Neurorehabilitation; bibliometrics; citation; citation analysis; factual databases; highly-cited; history of science; neurosciences; ranking; scientometrics
Authors: Mariana F G Lucena; Paulo E P Teixeira; Camila Bonin Pinto; Felipe Fregni Journal: Expert Rev Med Devices Date: 2019-05-26 Impact factor: 3.166