Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of the Most Influential Publications in Achalasia Research from 1995 to 2020

Table 8

Journals with four or more articles of the 482 articles which met all criteria.

Rank	Journal	No. of articles	Total citations	Average no. of citations per paper^✮
1	American Journal of Gastroenterology	38	3563	94
2	Surgical Endoscopy	32	2137	67
3	Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery	28	1832	65
4	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy	26	1517	58
5a	Digestive Diseases and Sciences	24	1435	60
5b	Annals of Surgery	24	3595	150
6	Gastroenterology	19	3159	166
7	Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques	18	871	48
8	Gut	17	2508	148
9	Diseases of the Esophagus	16	784	49
10	Neurogastroenterology and Motility	15	2463	164
11	Endoscopy	14	2132	152
12	Jama Surgery	12	974	81
13	World journal of gastroenterology	11	549	50
14a	Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology	10	749	75
14b	Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics	10	584	58
15	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology	9	666	74
16a	Journal of the American College of Surgeons	8	901	113
16b	Journal of Pediatric Surgery	8	346	43
17a	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America	7	462	66
17b	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	7	357	51
18a	Surgery	5	313	63
18b	Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition	5	239	48
18c	Digestive Endoscopy	5	245	49
18d	Journal of the American Medical Association	5	681	136
19a	World Journal of Surgery	4	387	97
19b	New England Journal of Medicine	4	1460	365
19c	Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)	4	157	39
19d	American Journal of Surgery	4	252	63

^✮The average number of citations was rounded to the nearest integer number. JAMA Surgery: the journal name was Archives of Surgery before 2015.