title: Endovascular Treatment for Extracranial Carotid Stenosis: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative method that can evaluate publications related to a specific topic.
  
  
  METHODS
  A PubMed database search was conducted from 2003 to 2012 using the search term "carotid" AND "stenos*" as a part of the title or abstract.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 1590 articles were published in 329 different journals. A total of 751 (47.2%) publications were original articles, 1501 (94.4%) were written in English, 153 (9.6%) received funding, 584 (36.7%) were published by the United States, and 673 (42.3%) resulted from multidisciplinary collaboration. Of the original articles, 538 (71.6%) had retrospective design and 275 (36.6%) had sample size of <50. Vascular surgery departments produced the most articles (n = 339, 21.3%), followed by radiology (n = 270, 17.0%), cardiology (n = 260, 16.4%), neurosurgery (n = 198, 12.5%), and neurology (n = 196, 12.3%). Five major departments published only a small portion (5.1%-26.5%) of articles in their own specialty journals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The publication in journals across disciplines and multidisciplinary collaboration are 2 peculiar characteristics of research in this topic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Eun-Joo
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea evee0914@chollian.net.
authors.forename: Dae-Young
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Bit-na
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Kyung-Joon
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Min
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Bo-Yeon
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: You-Jin
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Ku
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D039781:PubMed; D012107:Research Design / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013038:Specialization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: bibliometric study; carotid stenosis; endovascular treatment; publications; research productivity