Figure 1: Literature selection process for the bibliometric analysis on cutaneous neurofibromas(cNF) research
Country |
Articles |
Total Citations |
Average article citations |
Percentage(N/927) |
h_index |
g_index |
USA |
251 |
8597 |
34.25 |
27.08% |
47 |
86 |
JAPAN |
70 |
1003 |
14.33 |
7.55% |
14 |
30 |
GERMANY |
69 |
1657 |
24.01 |
7.44% |
22 |
38 |
CHINA |
65 |
457 |
7.03 |
7.01% |
12 |
19 |
ITALY |
65 |
995 |
15.31 |
7.01% |
19 |
29 |
FRANCE |
53 |
1742 |
32.87 |
5.72% |
25 |
41 |
TURKEY |
37 |
147 |
3.97 |
3.99% |
7 |
10 |
UNITED KINGDOM |
36 |
1257 |
34.92 |
3.88% |
17 |
35 |
INDIA |
34 |
63 |
1.85 |
3.67% |
4 |
7 |
BRAZIL |
29 |
300 |
10.34 |
3.13% |
8 |
17 |
Table 1: Research output and influence of the top 10 countries
Rank |
Institute |
Country/Region |
Number of Articles |
Total Citations |
Average article citations |
H-index |
1 |
UNIV PARIS DESCARTES |
France |
14 |
638 |
45.57 |
11 |
2 |
UNIV HAMBURG |
Germany |
13 |
382 |
29.38 |
7 |
3 |
CARDIFF UNIV |
United Kindom |
12 |
681 |
56.75 |
10 |
4 |
UNIV ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM |
United States |
11 |
803 |
73.00 |
10 |
5 |
UNIV ULM |
Germany |
11 |
394 |
35.82 |
9 |
6 |
SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV |
China |
10 |
40 |
4.00 |
4 |
7 |
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV |
United States |
8 |
129 |
16.13 |
6 |
8 |
UNIV MED CTR HAMBURG EPPENDORF |
Germany |
8 |
61 |
7.63 |
5 |
9 |
INDIANA UNIV SCH MED |
United States |
7 |
278 |
39.71 |
5 |
10 |
TOTTORI UNIV |
Japan |
7 |
52 |
7.43 |
5 |
Table 2: Top 10 institutes according to number of publications on cNF
Authors |
Country/Region |
Institiution |
Articles |
a |
b |
H-index |
c |
WOLKENSTEIN P |
France |
Henri Mondor Hospital |
38 |
1706 |
44.89 |
22 |
2003 |
MAUTNER VF |
Germany |
University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf |
30 |
1141 |
38.03 |
16 |
2003 |
FRIEDRICH RE |
Germany |
University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf |
25 |
489 |
19.56 |
12 |
2003 |
UPADHYAYA M |
United Kingdom |
Cardiff University |
20 |
1265 |
63.25 |
17 |
2004 |
KLUWE L |
Germany |
University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf |
19 |
831 |
43.74 |
13 |
2004 |
VIDAUD D |
France |
Université Paris Descartes |
19 |
724 |
38.11 |
13 |
2003 |
KEHRER-SAWATZKI H |
Germany |
University of Ulm |
16 |
554 |
34.63 |
10 |
2003 |
LE LQ |
United States |
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
15 |
402 |
26.80 |
10 |
2009 |
HAGEL C |
Germany |
University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf |
14 |
97 |
6.93 |
6 |
2007 |
PARFAIT B |
France |
Université Paris Descartes |
13 |
682 |
52.46 |
12 |
2004 |
Table 3: Top 10 authors according to number of publications on cNF
a. TC: total citation; b. AC: average article citation; c. Yof: year of the first publication
Journal |
Number of Articles |
Total Citations |
Average article citations |
JCR |
Impact Factor (2021) |
H-index |
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A |
25 |
546 |
21.84 |
Q3 |
2.578 |
12 |
JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY |
19 |
98 |
5.16 |
Q2 |
3.468 |
6 |
ANTICANCER RESEARCH |
16 |
111 |
6.94 |
Q4 |
2.435 |
6 |
PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY |
16 |
150 |
9.38 |
Q3 |
1.997 |
7 |
CUREUS |
11 |
6 |
0.55 |
* |
* |
- |
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS |
11 |
810 |
73.64 |
Q1 |
5.945 |
11 |
JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY |
11 |
287 |
26.09 |
Q2 |
4.506 |
8 |
ORPHANET JOURNAL OF RARE DISEASES |
11 |
149 |
13.55 |
Q2 |
4.302 |
5 |
PLOS ONE |
11 |
280 |
25.45 |
Q2 |
3.752 |
8 |
BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY |
10 |
215 |
21.50 |
Q1 |
11.113 |
7 |
Table 4: Top journals that have published articles on cNF
*NR: not reported
No. |
Bursts |
Author |
Year of publication |
Journal |
DOI |
Cluster ID |
1 |
14.72 |
Gutmann DH |
2017 |
NAT REV DIS PRIMERS |
10.1038/nrdp.2017.4 |
0 |
2 |
13.52 |
Dombi E |
2016 |
NEW ENGL J MED |
10.1056/NEJMoa1605943 |
0 |
3 |
8.74 |
Uusitalo E |
2015 |
J INVEST DERMATOL |
10.1038/jid.2014.465 |
0 |
4 |
8.36 |
Uusitalo E |
2016 |
J CLIN ONCOL |
10.1200/JCO.2015.65.3576 |
0 |
5 |
8.27 |
Le LQ |
2009 |
CELL STEM CELL |
10.1016/j.stem.2009.03.017 |
1 |
6 |
7.95 |
Ferner RE |
2007 |
J MED GENET |
10.1136/jmg.2006.045906 |
1 |
7 |
7.75 |
Kehrer-Sawatzki H |
2017 |
HUM GENET |
10.1007/s00439-017-1766-y |
3 |
8 |
7.71 |
Upadhyaya M |
2007 |
AM J HUM GENET |
10.1086/510781 |
1 |
9 |
7.51 |
Brems H |
2007 |
NAT GENET |
10.1038/ng2113 |
1 |
10 |
7.21 |
Koczkowska M |
2018 |
AM J HUM GENET |
10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.12.001 |
3 |
Table 5: Top 10 References by citation bursts
Figure 1: Literature selection process for the bibliometric analysis on cutaneous neurofibromas(cNF) research
Figure 2: Annual publication trends on cNF research
Figure 3: Publication output of the top 5 countries over time
Figure 4: Country network analysis. (A) Network map of international collaboration among countries in cNF research (B) Country collaboration network in cNF research based on vosviewer
Figure 5: Institution co-occurrence analysis. (A) Collaboration network of institutions in cNF research; (B) Network visualization of author collaboration
Figure 6: Publication trends of the top 5 highly productive authors
Figure 7: Dual-map overlay of citing and cited journals in cNF research
Figure 8: Co-citation analysis of references. (A) Clustered network map of co-cited references (B) Timeline visualization of co-cited references clusters
Figure 9: Top references with significant citation bursts. The red lines indicate the time period of the citation burst for each reference
Figure 10: Keywords analysis (A) a network visualization of the keywords that most frequently co-occur in cNF research (B) Top 10 keywords that exhibit the strongest citation bursts in the literature on cNF
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