The bibliometric and altmetric analysis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy research: how great is the impact?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has received great attention from academia and the general public. This study aims to analyze the research productivity on CTE and investigate the most discussed articles in academia and the general public by conducting bibliometric and altmetric analyses.

Methods

Data of articles were obtained from the Web of Science Core Databases and Altmetric Explore. VOSviewer and CiteSpace software were used to analyze and visualize the articles. The correlation between Altmetric attention scores (AAS) and citation counts were assessed by Spearman correlation coefficient.

Results

788 publications of CTE were eventually gathered and analyzed, and 100 articles with highest citation counts (Top-cited) and 100 articles w

SUBMITTER: Guan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883053 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature