The Most Frequently Cited 100 Articles Related to Malignant Hyperthermia in the Anaesthesia Literature.

Volkan Hancı, Gözde Altuntaş Uzun, Yasemin Şişecioğlu, Gözde Gürsoy, Büşra Manduz, Sezen Korkut, Esra Kırova

Dokuz Eylul University Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Izmir Turkey

Background: We investigated most highly cited 100 articles related to malignant hyperthermia in the anaesthesiology literature.

Materials and Methods: Using the advanced mode of theWeb of Science(WOS), the words “SU=anest*AND TI=hyperther* OR SU=anest* AND TS=hyperther* OR SU=anest* AND TI=ryanod* OR SU=anest* AND TS=ryanod* OR SU=anest* AND TI=hyperpyre* OR SU=anest* AND TS=hyperpyre*” were used to scan articles on December 2017.

Results: From 1975 to date, it appears a total of 1996 articles related to malignant hyperthermia in the anesthesiology were published in the WOS.The most cited article had 548 citations, the least cited articles had 35 citations.The mean citation number was 75.95±69.97. The mean annual citation number for the articles varied from 15.36 to 1.03 and the mean was 3.75±3.12.The most cited article was by Gronert, GA "Malignant Hyperthermia" published in “Anesthesiology”. Most three area’s of articles related to malignant hyperthermia focused in; “physiology, physiopathology and pharmacology of malignant hyperthermia”, “diagnosis and treatment of malignant hyperthermia (included guides)”, and “diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia” were conducted in 23.5%, 21.6%, and 20.6% studies, respectively. The three journals that appeared most frequently in the top 102 were Anesthesiology(48%), Anesthesia and Analgesia(20.6%), and British Journal of Anaesthesia(20.6%). Of the articles, 98% were listed in the SCI and only 2% were listed in the SCI-E. The top three countries listed for authors were USA(56.9%),England(11.8%), and Germany(8.8%).Of the authors, 36.3% on the continent of Europe and 63.7% 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 malignant hyperthermia and anaesthesiology. The most cited article had 548 citations. The most frequently cited studies in the field of malignant hyperthermia included physiology, physiopathology and pharmacology of malignant hyperthermia topics. The three journals that appeared most frequently in the top 102 were Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and British Journal of Anaesthesia.There was no significant difference found between the continent of authors or index of journals and the total and mean annual number of citations. 

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