The most influential articles on kidney transplantation: A PRISMA-compliant bibliometric and visualized analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Kidney transplantation (KT) has become common in the treatment of end-stage renal disease. However, to date, there have been no bibliometric analyses of KT research to identify the most influential articles. The purpose of this research is to identify and characterize the 100 most cited articles that focus on KT and to clarify the trends in the accomplishments in this field.

Methods

We searched the Thomson Reuters Web of Science citation indexing database and used keyword mapping of VOSviewer. The top 100 most cited manuscripts were analyzed based on their titles, authors, institutions, countries of origin, years of publication, and topics.

Results

The New England Journal of Medicine has published the most manuscripts on kidney transplantation (n = 26) and

SUBMITTER: Jun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8772660 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature