Abstract
Objective The objective of this study was to analyze the 100 top-cited systematic reviews/meta-analyses on diabetic research. Methods The Science Citation Index Expanded database was searched to identify top-cited studies on diabetic research up to March 4th, 2020. Studies were analyzed using the following characteristics: citation number, publication year, country and institution of origin, authorship, topics, and journals. Results The 100 top-cited diabetic systematic reviews/meta-analyses were published in 43 different journals, with Diabetes Care having the highest numbers (n = 17), followed by The Journal of the American Medical Association (n = 14) and Lancet (n = 9). The majority of studies are published in the 2000s. The number of citations ranged from 2197 to 301. The highest number of contributions was from the USA, followed by England and Australia. The leading institution was Harvard University. The hot topic was a risk factor (n = 33), followed by comorbidity (n = 27). Conclusions The 100 top-cited systematic reviews/meta-analyses on diabetic research identify impactful authors, journals, institutes, and countries. It will also provide the most important references to evidence-based medicine in diabetes and serve as a guide to the features of a citable paper in this field.
Highlights
According to the WHO, diabetes had been identified as one of the four major noncommunicable diseases [1,2,3], and the number of deaths due to diabetes increased by 31.1% between and 2016 [4, 5]
The inclusion criteria were as follows: (a) the study design should be a systematic review or meta-analysis or a systematic review and metaanalysis or a Cochrane review; (b) the study should be on diabetes, for example, if the review analyzed the changes in the blood glucose level in old diabetes mellitus patients, it could be included; if the review analyzed how to detect blood glucose by using blood glucose meters, it should not be included
A retrospective bibliometric analysis was performed on March 4th, to identify studies using the Web of Science Core Collection
Summary
According to the WHO, diabetes had been identified as one of the four major noncommunicable diseases [1,2,3], and the number of deaths due to diabetes increased by 31.1% between and 2016 [4, 5]. About 382 million adults (8.3%) are living with diabetes, and it will be over 592 million by 2035 [4, 5]. Many diabetic studies have been published during the past few decades [6,7,8,9]. Along with the increasing of the literature in original diabetic articles [10, 11], the systematic reviews/meta-analyses on diabetic research are increasing. Assessment quality and quantity of literature has become much more important in the scientific area, and bibliometrics analysis is the most important involved method [12,13,14]. Fixing citation thresholds (100-400 citations) and choosing the top-cited studies (top 25 to 100) from a list [15] were the most common bibliometrics analysis method
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