The Most Frequently Cited 101 Articles Related to Nutrition of the Critical Care Literature

Abstract

Objective:In our study, we analyzed the most cited 101 articles on nutrition from the intensive care literature.Materials and Methods:Using an advanced mode of the Web of Science (WOS), the keys “WC = Critical Care Medicine and TS = nutr* or WC = Critical Care Medicine and TI = nutr* or WC = Nutrition & Dietetics and TS = intensive care or WC = Nutrition & Dietetics and TI = intensive care or WC = Nutrition & Dietetics and TS = critical care or WC = Nutrition & Dietetics and TI = critical care” were used to identify the articles on June 2021.Results:From 1975 to the present a total of 7,093 articles related to nutrition of critical care were published in the WOS. The most cited article received 1,011 citations; the least cited articles received 166 citations. The average number of citations was determined as 287.77±178.57. The mean annual citation number was 21.86±35.46. The most cited article was by McClave, Stephen et al. “Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.” The three most cited areas of critical care nutrition articles focused on “Enteral Nutrition,” “Immune-nutrition,” and “Outcomes of the Nutrition” and were conducted in 20.8%, 20.8%, and 17.8% studies, respectively. The three most frequently journals in the top 101 position were Critical Care Medicine (43.6%), Intensive Care Medicine (10.9%), Clinical Nutrition (7.9%), and the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (7.9%) happened. The USA (38.6%), Canada (%12.9), and England (7.9%) took the top three places for authors. A total of 36.6% of the authors were from the European continent and 63.4% were from outside the European continent. No significant difference was found between the continent of authors, the journal’s index, the total number of citations and the annual average number of citations.A significant relationship was found between the year of publication of the article, the journal in which it was published, the country of the journal in which it was published, continent of the journal, type of the study, the subject area, number of citations per year, and between the type of study and the total number of citations of the article (p<0.05).Conclusion:This is the first study to search for the most citations articles in the field of nutrition in the intensive care literature. The most frequently cited articles in the field of nutrition in the intensive care, included “Enteral Nutrition” and “Immunonutrition” topics. It is noteworthy that the articles published after 2015 and the guidelines and articles on the enteral and parenteral nutrition received more citations in our study.

Keywords

• nutrition
• bibliometrics
• citation