title: The 100 most-cited articles on aortic dissection.
abstract: To identify and characterize the most frequently cited articles that have been published on aortic dissection.
  
  
  
  A list of the 100 most frequently cited publications (T100) about aortic dissection was generated by performing a searching of the Science Citation Index--Expanded using "aortic dissection" as the search term. Basic information about the articles was recorded, including number of citations, journal title, journal impact factor, time since publication, first author's country, topic/subspecialty of the research, and publication type.
  
  
  
  We finally included 180 articles on aortic dissection, from which we identified the 100 most frequently cited articles (T100). The most frequently cited article received 1079 citations, while the least frequently cited article received 68 (mean140.5 citations per article). The T100 originated from 19 countries, with more than half of them originating from the USA (n = 97). The T100 articles were published from 1955 to 2013, with 79% published during the period 1990-2009. In addition, there were 40 different journals with Circulation having the most citations (n = 38). Regarding the article type, there were 21 basic and 140 clinical research articles, one meta-analysis, and 18 review articles. Reviews had the highest mean number of citations (mean 235.5 citations per article).
  
  
  
  Our study provides a historical perspective on the progress of dissection research, and helps to identify the quality of the work, the discoveries made, and the trends steering the studies.
authors.affiliation: Medical Student, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academic of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
authors.forename: Yuan-Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.|Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China.
authors.forename: Jin-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academic of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, 510080, China. gdhepengcheng@126.com.
authors.forename: Peng-Cheng
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Yuequn Qiu, MS, Department of Cardiology, Ganzhou cardiology center, Society for Cardiovascular Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China. qiuyuequn66@163.com.
authors.forename: Yue-Qun
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D000818:Animals; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Aortic dissection; Most-cited