Authors: Michael R Murray Tianyi Wang Gregory D Schroeder Wellington K Hsu
Publish Date: 2012/04/17
Volume: 21, Issue: 10, Pages: 2059-2069
Abstract
Spinerelated research has evolved dramatically during the last century Significant contributions have been made by thousands of authors A citation rank list has historically been used within a particular field to measure the importance of an article The purpose of this article is to report on the 100 most cited articles in the field of spineScience Citation Index Expanded was searched for citations in 27 different journals as of 30 November 2010 chosen based on the relevance for all cited spine publications The top 100 most cited articles were identified Important information such as journal date country of origin author subspecialty and level of evidence for clinical research were compiledThe top 100 publications ranged from 1695 to 240 citations Fiftythree articles were of the lumbar 17 were of the thoracolumbar and 15 of the cervical spine Eightyone of the articles were clinical and 19 were basic science in nature Level of evidence varied for the clinical papers however was most commonly level IV 34 of 81 articles Notably the 1990–1999 decade was the most productive period with 43 of the top 100 articles published during this timeIdentification of the most cited articles within the field of spine recognizes some of the most important contributions in the peerreviewed literature Current investigators may utilize the aspects of their work to guide and direct future spinerelated research
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