Introduction

As scientific knowledge has grown in biomedicine, it has also become necessary to develop tools to manage and understand the body of evidence. In that sense, bibliometrics has become a consolidated discipline for analyzing scientific activity, enabling the characterization of a particular field or area of knowledge by means of the quantification of the bibliographic characteristics of scientific publications.

Objective

The objective of this study was to determine the most frequently cited articles in the field of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and otorrhea.

Methods

The searches took place on the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science platform, which includes the MEDLINE database. The study period was limited to 1945–2018.

Results

The 101 most cited articles in the field of cerebrospinal fluid leak were published in 36 journals, and the most important specialties contributing to the literature were neurosurgery and otorhinolaryngology. Of the 101 top-cited articles, 70% were published from 1990 to 2018, with two distinct periods of high scientific productivity: 1990–1999 and 2000–2009. In the first period, the main topic of research interest was endoscopic sinus surgery for cerebrospinal fluid fistulas, whereas from 2000 to 2009, documents focused more on surgical aspects of extended skull base approaches. The articles received 73–767 citations. The top article over the whole study period was “A novel reconstructive technique after endoscopic expanded endonasal approaches: vascular pedicle nasoseptal flap” by Hadad et al., which was published 2006 in Laryngoscope. Its publication represented an inflection point in the literature on cerebrospinal fluid leak and endoscopic skull base surgery, and it gave rise to numerous other research publications.

Conclusion

Different surgical innovations in the field of cerebrospinal fluid leak sparked two different periods of intense scientific activity. Otorhinolaryngology and neurosurgery were the dominant specialties. The most frequent topic studied was endoscopic surgery; others included clinical and diagnostic features, neurinoma surgery, and cerebrospinal fluid leak related to temporal bone fractures.

中文翻译：

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脑脊液漏（鼻漏和耳漏）（1945-2018 年）中被引用次数最多的文章

介绍

随着生物医学科学知识的增长，开发工具来管理和理解证据主体也变得必要。从这个意义上说，文献计量学已经成为分析科学活动的综合学科，通过对科学出版物的书目特征进行量化，能够对特定领域或知识领域进行表征。

客观的

本研究的目的是确定脑脊液鼻漏和耳漏领域最常被引用的文章。

方法

搜索是在 Clarivate Analytics Web of Science 平台上进行的，该平台包括 MEDLINE 数据库。研究期间仅限于 1945 年至 2018 年。

结果

脑脊液漏领域的 101 篇被引用次数最多的文章发表在 36 种期刊上，对文献贡献最大的专业是神经外科和耳鼻喉科。在 101 篇高被引文章中，70% 发表于 1990 年至 2018 年，有两个不同的高科学生产力时期：1990-1999 年和 2000-2009 年。在第一阶段，研究兴趣的主要主题是脑脊液瘘的内窥镜鼻窦手术，而从 2000 年到 2009 年，文献更多地关注扩展颅底入路的手术方面。这些文章收到了 73-767 次引用。整个研究期间的热门文章是 Hadad 等人于 2006 年在 Laryngoscope 上发表的“内窥镜扩大鼻内入路后的一种新型重建技术：血管蒂鼻中隔皮瓣”。

结论

脑脊液漏领域的不同手术创新引发了两个不同时期的激烈科学活动。以耳鼻咽喉科和神经外科为主。最常研究的主题是内窥镜手术。其他包括临床和诊断特征、神经瘤手术以及与颞骨骨折相关的脑脊液漏。