Bibliometric analysis of the most cited articles on congenital cataract from 1980 to 2022

Year 2023, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 106 - 110, 12.01.2023

Ayşin Tuba Kaplan

https://doi.org/10.32322/jhsm.1213922

Abstract

Aim: It was aimed to present a summary of the articles published between 1980-2022 on congenital cataract, to identify the most cited articles in the field, to analyze the most active journals and the development in countries by years.
Material and Method: Search was made using keywords “Congenital Cataract”, “OR: Pediatric Cataract”, “OR: Infantile Cataract”, “AND: 1980-2022 (Year Published)”, “AND: English (Language)” in Web of Science (WOS) database via Boolean operators (Access Date: 01.11.2022). Bibliometric analyzes were made using VOSviewer (ver.1.6.18), statistical analyzes were made using rstudio (ver.2022.02.1), other analyzes were made using Microsoft Excel.
Results: In the bibliometric analysis, 1383 articles were included between the dates determined. Over the past few decades, the total number of publications on congenital cataracts continually increased from 2 in 1980 to 68 in 2022 November. The most productive year was 2021 (n=93), while the most cited year was 2004 (1,184 citations, 32 publications). The most studied WOS categories were ophthalmology (n=900), pediatrics (183) and genetics (167). The most widely used keywords were congenital cataract (n=235), cataract (n=124) and pediatric cataract (n=75). The most cited paper in congenital cataract was “Pax6 gene dosage effect in a family with congenital cataracts, aniridia, anophthalmia and central-nervous-system defects”, which was published in Nature Genetics in 1994 and cited 562 times (impact factor: 8.78). In ophthalmology journals, the most cited article was published in Survey of Ophthalmology (267 times, 1996) and the Molecular Vision was the most attractive journal with 104 publications. The United States of America, England and Peoples R China had the highest total link strength (TLS), 226 (10,325 citations), 134 (3,621 citations) and 73 (3,871 citations), respectively.
Conclusion: These findings provide useful information on the status and trends of current clinical research on congenital cataracts. Our study can be used to identify areas of study and standard bibliographic references for better diagnosis and disease control.

Keywords

Bibliometric analysis, congenital cataract, infantile cataract, pediatric cataract.

Thanks

Dear Editor; I would like to submit our article entitled ‘Bibliometric Analysis of the 100 most cited articles on congenital cataracts’ to your journal with the hope of publication. The article is original, has not been published elsewhere and is not currently under consideration by another journal. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article and they have no conflict of interest in this manuscript. Our article submitted in English have undergone language editing and have been reviewed by a biostatistician. Yours sincerely, Ayşin Tuba Kaplan, MD SBU Dr Lütfi Kırdar Kartal City Hospital Istanbul, Turkey Phone: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail] Cell Phone: [phone]

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