The 100 most cited papers about ependymomas

Abstract

Background: There is a large amount of articles centered on ependymoma. Objective: To present the 100 most-cited articles on ependymoma and to perform a bibliometric analysis. Methods: We performed a search on January 2020, using Thomson Reuters Web of Science database to identify the most noteworthy papers about ependymomas, without publication date restrictions. The top 100 most cited articles were detected and reviewed. Results: Our search resulted in 4.254 articles, published from 1975 until now (January 2020). All articles are in English. All of them combined have been cited 10.128 times, in 4.531 different articles, with an average citation per item of 101.28. The article that was accompanied by the greatest citation count was published by Taylor, MD, et al in 2005. The paper has received 532 citations, with an average of 33,25 citations per year. Conclusions: A large proportion of the most cited articles were neither written by authors that were neurosurgeons, nor were published in neurosurgery journals. The review provided an excellent opportunity to summarize the historical development and advances achieved in the field of ependymoma and the important contributions of different authors, specialty fields, and countries.

Keywords

• Analysis
• Articles
• Bibliometric
• Citation
• Ependymoma
• Neurosurgery