Ignacio Jusue-Torres1, Alicia Hulbert2, Arpita A Germanwala3, Chirag R Patel4, Anand V Germanwala5. 1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: ignacio.jusuetorres@lumc.edu. 2. Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 3. Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 4. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA; Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 5. Department of Neurological Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA; Section of Neurological Surgery, Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to identify the 100 most-cited research reports on craniopharyngiomas. METHODS: The Thomson Reuters Web of Science service was queried for the years 1900 to 2017 without language restrictions. The articles were sorted in descending order of the number of times they had been cited by other studies, and all titles and abstracts were screened to identify the research areas of the top 100 reports. The number of citations per year was calculated. RESULTS: We identified the 100 most-cited articles on craniopharyngioma, which, collectively, had been cited 20,994 times at the time of our report. The top cited report had been cited 718 times, with an average of 144 citations annually since publication. The oldest article had been published in 1969 and the most recent in 2013; the most prolific decade was the 2000s, with 38 of the included articles published during that period. Thirty-two unique journals contributed to the 100 articles, with the Journal of Neurosurgery contributing most of the articles (n = 31). The most common country of article origin was the United States (n = 49), followed by United Kingdom (n = 12), Germany (n = 10), and Italy (n = 6). CONCLUSIONS: The present study identified the 100 most-cited research articles in craniopharyngioma. These results highlight the multidisciplinary and multimodal nature of craniopharyngioma management. Recognition of important historical contributions to this field could guide future investigations.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to identify the 100 most-cited research reports on craniopharyngiomas. METHODS: The Thomson Reuters Web of Science service was queried for the years 1900 to 2017 without language restrictions. The articles were sorted in descending order of the number of times they had been cited by other studies, and all titles and abstracts were screened to identify the research areas of the top 100 reports. The number of citations per year was calculated. RESULTS: We identified the 100 most-cited articles on craniopharyngioma, which, collectively, had been cited 20,994 times at the time of our report. The top cited report had been cited 718 times, with an average of 144 citations annually since publication. The oldest article had been published in 1969 and the most recent in 2013; the most prolific decade was the 2000s, with 38 of the included articles published during that period. Thirty-two unique journals contributed to the 100 articles, with the Journal of Neurosurgery contributing most of the articles (n = 31). The most common country of article origin was the United States (n = 49), followed by United Kingdom (n = 12), Germany (n = 10), and Italy (n = 6). CONCLUSIONS: The present study identified the 100 most-cited research articles in craniopharyngioma. These results highlight the multidisciplinary and multimodal nature of craniopharyngioma management. Recognition of important historical contributions to this field could guide future investigations.