Background:
We investigated most highly cited 100 articles
related to nutrition in the critical care literature.
Materials and Methods:
This study was approved by ethics committee.
Using the advanced mode of the Web of
Science(WOS), the words “WC=Critical Care
Medicine AND TS=nutr* OR WC=Critical Care
Medicine AND TI=nutr* OR
WC=Nutrition&Dietetics AND TS=intensive care
OR WC=Nutrition&Dietetics AND TI=intensive
care OR WC=Nutrition&Dietetics AND
TS=critical care OR WC=Nutrition&Dietetics
AND TI=critical care”were used to scan articles
on December2017. 
Results:
From 1975 to date, it appears a total of 5182
articles related to nutrition in the critical care
were published in the WOS.The most cited
article had 806 citations, the least cited article
had 120 citations. The mean citation number
was 218.88±131.46. The mean annual citation
number for the articles varied from 89.56 to
3.56 and the mean was 16.00±13.83.The most
cited article was by McClave, Stephen et al.
"Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of
Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically
Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care
Medicine(SCCM) and American Society for
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition(ASPEN)"
published in“Journal of Parenteral and Enteral
Nutrition”.Most three area’s of articles related to nutrition in critical
care focused in; “Enteral Nutrition”, “Immuno-Nutrition”,
and “Outcomes of the Nutrition” were conducted in 24%,
23%, and 20%, respectively.The three journals that
appeared most frequently in the top 100 were Critical Care
Medicine(51%), Intensive Care Medicine(14%), and Journal
of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition(7%).Of the articles, 96%
were listed in the SCI and only 4% were listed in the SCIE.The
top three countries listed for authors were USA(36%),
Canada(%14), England(9%),and Germany(9%).Of the
authors, 37% on the continent of Europe and 63% outside
the continent of Europe.There was no significant difference
found between the continent of authors, index of journal
and the total number of citations and mean annual number
of citations.
Conclusion:
This is the first study to investigate articles with most
citations in the field of nutrition in critical care literature.The
most cited article had 806 citations.The most frequently
cited studies in the field of nutrition include “Enteral
Nutrition” topics.There was no significant difference found
between the continent of authors or index of journals and
the total and mean annual number of citations

08 / The Most Frequently Cited 100 Articles Related to Nutrition in the Critical CareLiterature.