The 100 most cited papers on thymic epithelial tumours: a bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT: Bibliometric analysis can help us analyse the most influential papers, authors, research institutions in a discipline or topic and analyse the impact of these papers on a specific field. Our purpose is to identify the 100 most cited papers about thymic epithelial tumours (TETs) and analyse their key characteristics. We use certain search terms in the Web of Science database to identify the 100 most cited papers, and analysed the first author, country of the first author, institution, journal, type of paper, number of citations, and citation rate. The search returned 26,497 results. The top 100 papers received 17,674 citations. The most cited paper was by Masaoka et al. (n=1,190 citations), in which, clinical staging criteria are proposed for thymoma with special emphasis on the ther

SUBMITTER: Qiu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7797823 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature