A scientometric analysis of the 100 most cited articles on magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound

A scientometric analysis of the 100 most cited articles on magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound

Background Diagnostic ultrasound has long been a part of a physician’s armamentarium, but transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging treatment of neurological disorders. Consequently, the literature in this field is increasing at a rapid pace. Objective This analysis was aimed to identify...

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Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience 2022-09, Vol.16, p.981571-981571
Main Authors: Garg, Kanwaljeet, Ranjan, Manish, Krishna, Vibhor, Singh, Manmohan, Rezai, Ali
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Alzheimers disease
Bibliometrics
Blood-brain barrier
Brain research
Citations
essential tremor
focused ultrasound
FUS
Hirsch index
Magnetic resonance imaging
Movement disorders
MRI
Neurological diseases
Neurological disorders
Neuroscience
Neurosurgery
Parkinson’s disease
Scientometrics
Tremor (Muscular contraction)
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasound
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Summary:Background Diagnostic ultrasound has long been a part of a physician’s armamentarium, but transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging treatment of neurological disorders. Consequently, the literature in this field is increasing at a rapid pace. Objective This analysis was aimed to identify the top-cited articles on FUS to discern their origin, spread, current trends highlighting future impact of this novel neurosurgical intervention. Methods We searched the Web of Science database on 28th May 2021 and identified the top 100 cited articles. These articles were analyzed with various scientometric parameters like the authors, corresponding authors, country of corresponding author, journal of publication, year of publication. Citation based parameters including total citations, mean citations per article and mean citations, citation count, and the citation per year, citations per year and co-authors per document were studied as well in addition to Hirsch h-index, g-index, m-index, Bradford’s Law, Lotka’s law and Collaboration index. Results The 100 top-cited articles were published between 1998 and 2019 in 45 different journals. The average citations per document and citations per document per year were 97.78 and 12.47, respectively. The most prolific authors were Hynynen K (Medical Biophysics—Toronto), Elias WJ (Neurosurgery—Virginia), Zadicario (InSightec). The Journal of Neurosurgery published the most top-cited articles ( n = 11), and most articles originated from the United States, followed by Canada. Among individual institutions, the University of Toronto was the most productive. Conclusion FUS is an emerging treatment of neurological disorders. With its increasing application, the FUS literature is increasing rapidly. Eleven countries contributed to the top 100 cited articles, with the top 2 countries (the United States and Canada) contributing to more than half of these articles.
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161