The Top 100 Cited Papers in the Field of Iron Deficiency in Humans: A Bibliometric Study.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide, iron deficiency is a common form of micronutrient deficiency with a high individual and societal cost. There are considerable knowledge and practice gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency. Bibliometric analysis examines the published body of knowledge of a subject in an objective fashion. The Web of Science Core Collection was searched to retrieve the 100 most cited papers on the topic of iron deficiency, and the key metrics of each paper were extracted. A keyword study was performed using VOSviewer 1.6.10 software, which provided a visual mapping of the network of keyword cooccurrences. The papers were published between 1964 and 2017 and were cited an average of 636 times. They were contributed by authors from 119 different countries/regions, with the largest co

SUBMITTER: Frater JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8218916 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature