A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles Dedicated to Optic Nerve Disorders

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  • Ohba Norio
    Division of Orthoptics, Heisei-iryou College of Health Sciences
  • Tanzawa Keiichi
    Division of Orthoptics, Heisei-iryou College of Health Sciences
  • Sato Nami
    Division of Orthoptics, Heisei-iryou College of Health Sciences

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  • 視神経疾患研究の計量書誌学的検討

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<p>Aim: To define and characterize publications and citations in the field of optic nerve disorders.</p> <p>Materials and methods: We accessed the Web of Science（Clarivate Analytics）online in September 2020; searched for articles with titles including optic neuritis, optic neuropathy, or optic atrophy published over a 50-year period from 1970 to 2019; and performed bibliometric and citation analysis of 5,230 relevant articles.</p> <p>Results: The number of optic nerve disorder-related articles showed an increasing trend from about 10 yearly in the early 1970s to nearly 300 in the recent decades. Most studies originated from USA, followed by UK and Japan. The articles were published in about 700 different journals, led by Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology and Neuro-Ophthalmology. The articles covered a diverse group of topics, including hereditary optic neuropathy, ischemic optic neuropathy, demyelinating optic neuropathy, toxic and metabolic optic neuropathy, compressive optic neuropathy, and autoimmune-associated optic neuropathy. Citation analyses of individual articles showed considerable variability among articles. The top 100 cited articles received more than 145 citations, led by Wallace et al.'s article on identification of mitochondrial mutation in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.</p>

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