title: The top 100 cited neurorehabilitation papers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, assessment approaches and treatment methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field.
  
  
  METHODS
  A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship trends suggest that top cited papers result from group endeavors, with 90% of the papers involving a collaboration among 3 or more authors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Treatment studies, often focused on stroke, appear to have the highest impact in the field of neurorehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kreutzer
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Amma A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Agyemang
authors.affiliation: IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weedon
authors.affiliation: Concussion Care Centre of Virginia Ltd., Tree of Life Services, Inc., Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zasler
authors.affiliation: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.affiliation: ÜberResearch - Digital Science, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Aaron A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sorensen
authors.affiliation: IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Saskia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: van Wijngaarden
authors.affiliation: IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leahy
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D000066530:Neurological Rehabilitation / Q000639:trends*; D009462:Neurology / Q000639:trends; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000639:trends*
keywords: Neurorehabilitation; bibliometrics; citation; citation analysis; factual databases; highly-cited; history of science; neurosciences; ranking; scientometrics