Bibliometric Analysis of 100 Top-Cited Articles in Gastric Disease

Table 1

Journals in which the top 100 cited gastric disease articles were published.

Rank	Journals	No. of articles (%)	Average no. of citations per paper	Impact factor^† (2018)
1	Lancet	18	1124.778	59.102
2	New England Journal of Medicine	17	1405.059	70.67
3	Gastroenterology	8	711.125	19.809
4a	Cancer research	5	1134.8	8.378
4b	Nature	5	1728.6	43.07
4c	Science	5	1237	41.063
5	Gut	4	1045	17.943
6a	American Journal of Surgical Pathology	3	1613.333	6.155
6b	Annals of Internal Medicine	3	848	19.315
7a	Journal of American medical association	2	1380	51.273
7b	Annals of Surgery	2	825	9.476
7c	Cancers	2	1105.5	6.162
7d	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	2	948.5	17.75
7e	Gastric Cancer	2	790	5.554
7f	Journal of Clinical Oncology	2	899	28.245
7 g	Lancet Oncology	21	852	35.386
7 h	Medical Journal of Australia	2	833	5.332
8a	Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	1	1033	7.731
8b	American Journal of Gastroenterology	1	706	10.241
8c	Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	1	773	4.151
8d	BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)	1	1150	27.604
8e	British Journal of Cancer	1	921	5.416
8f	Cancer Cell	1	645	23.916
8 g	Cell	1	859	36.216
8 h	Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology	1	869	3.632
8i	Journal of Pediatric Surgery	1	1328	2.092
8j	Nature Reviews Cancer	1	1094	51.848
8 k	Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy	1	840	1.345
8 l	American Journal of Gastroenterology	1	774	10.241
8 m	Virchows Archiv	1	1107	2.868
8n	World Journal of Gastroenterology	1	1036	3.411
8o	World Journal of Surgery	1	607	2.768

^†Journal impact factor based on Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports Ranking (2018).