Top 100 Publications as Measured by Altmetrics in the Field of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Disease

Table 5

General issues discussed in the highly mentioned articles on central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease.

Category	No. of articles
Treatment and related complications	45
Risk factors
Environmental factors	31
Genetic factors	5^a
CSF biomarkers	1
Diagnosis and clinical characteristics	8
Disease mechanism	5
Economic and quality-of-life issues	5

CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; No.: number. ^aThe Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis (GEMS) project in the United States evaluated both genetic and environmental factors that lead to multiple sclerosis development in at-risk people; publication based on the GEMS was arbitrarily counted as articles on the subject of genetic risk factor.