The 100 most-cited articles on non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection from 1995 to 2015.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
; 21(1): 100-106, 2017 01 01.
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ABSTRACT
SETTING:
Citation analyses aid in assessing quality, trends and future directions of research fields.OBJECTIVE:
To identify the most influential articles on infections caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in the last 20 years.DESIGN:
We performed a cited reference search of the Web of Science database from 1995 to 2015. The 100 most cited articles on NTM infections were analysed.RESULTS:
The top 100 articles were cited 114-1471 times, and were published from 1995 to 2013. Sixty-five were laboratory-based, basic science articles, with the major topics being pathophysiology (n = 20) and molecular methods for NTM identification (n = 15). Among the 35 non-laboratory studies, major topics were clinical management (n = 15) and epidemiology (n = 14). The top article was a clinical treatise on the management of NTM disease, published in 2007. Although there was a correlation between article rank and journal impact factor (P = 0.043, ρ = -0.202), the five articles from the journals with highest impact factors did not rank among the top 10 articles.CONCLUSION:
A large proportion of influential articles on NTM infection are basic scientific studies, and the most influential articles are not always published in high-impact journals.
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01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Publicações Periódicas como Assunto
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Bibliometria
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Infecções por Mycobacterium não Tuberculosas
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article