The Most Frequently Cited 100 Articles in Liver Transplantation Literature.
BACKGROUND
We investigated the liver transplantation literature since 1975 and found the most frequently cited 100 articles and assessed the distribution of authors and journals of these articles.


METHODS
Using the advanced mode of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science (WOS) search engine, the words "SU = transplantation AND TI = liver OR SU = transplantation AND TS = liver" were used to scan articles and determine the most-cited 100 articles on July 18, 2016.


RESULTS
From 1975 to date, it appears a total of 43,369 articles were published in the field of liver transplantation in the WOS. Although the most cited article had 677 citations, the least cited article had 180 citations. The mean citation number for the 100 articles was 252.31 ± 96.75. The mean annual citation number for the articles varied from 61.55 to 5 and the mean was 15.31 ± 8.63. The most cited article was by Feng et al "Characteristics Associated With Liver Graft Failure: The Concept of a Donor Risk Index" published in the American Journal of Transplantation (677 citations).


CONCLUSIONS
Bibliometric analysis highlights the key topics and publications that have shaped the understanding and management of liver transplantation. According to our research, this is the first study to investigate articles with most citations in the field of liver transplantation. In our study the article with the most citations was cited 677 times, whereas the 100th article was cited 180 times with a mean citation number for the 100 articles of 252.31 ± 96.75.
Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: mucahitozbilgin@gmail.com.
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Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Egeli
Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Ağalar
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Özbilgin
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Department of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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Ellidokuz
Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
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D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors