[The most frequently cited articles in the SCI and SSCI of the Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie (Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy) -- a review and analysis].
OBJECTIVE
We investigate which articles out of the entire fifty volumes of the Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie (Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (Psychoanalysis) have been most frequently cited. These articles are analysed according to the groups of authors and topics.


METHODS
The citation frequency was determined in the source journals listed by the ISI and contained in the SCI and SSCI data banks.


RESULTS
58 articles were cited at least ten times, and five of these articles were cited at least twenty times. One article was cited 45 times and thus was the top runner. The authors who are particularly important in their specialized areas dominated, and the most frequently cited articles were distributed quite evenly in both psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic topics.


CONCLUSIONS
A relatively large number of articles in this journal have a sustained influence among experts in the field. Since there are not many of German journal listed in the ISI data banks or have only recently been included by them, the number of citations is most likely considerably higher.
Brahler
Elmar
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Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Leipzig University, Stephanstr. 11, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. elmar.braehler@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Rüger
Ulrich
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D001319:Authorship; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*