Purpose

Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative assessment of the academic literature in a particular field. The aim of our study was to characterize the 100 top-cited articles regarding transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Materials and methods

The ‘Web of Science’ database was used to identify the leading articles regarding TACE for HCC. We determined the top 100 articles according to citations and performed an analysis on year of publication, authorship, department affiliation, publishing journal, institution and country of origin, subject matter and article type.

Results

The top-cited articles received between 92 and 2254 citations (median 283.4). The top 100 papers were published in 32 journals between 1983 and 2016. Cancer, Radiology and Hepatology published the most articles (n = 40). Internal medicine was the department affiliation of the first author in 49%. The country providing the most highly cited articles was Japan (n = 24).

Conclusion

We performed an analysis of the 100 top-cited articles dealing with TACE for HCC, presenting a detailed list of the most influential and historically significant papers. Japan was the country that produced the most top-cited articles, highlighting its key contribution to this field of the literature.

中文翻译：

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肝细胞癌的经动脉化疗栓塞：对引用最多的文章的文献计量分析。

目的

文献计量分析是对特定领域学术文献的定量评估。我们研究的目的是描述 100 篇关于经动脉化疗栓塞 (TACE) 治疗肝细胞癌 (HCC) 的高被引文章。

材料和方法

'Web of Science' 数据库被用来识别关于 TACE 治疗 HCC 的主要文章。我们根据引文确定了前100篇文章，并对发表年份、作者身份、部门隶属关系、出版期刊、机构和来源国、主题和文章类型进行了分析。

结果

被引用次数最多的文章的引用次数在 92 到 2254 之间（中位数 283.4）。1983 年至 2016 年间，前 100 篇论文发表在 32 种期刊上。癌症、放射学和肝病学发表的文章最多（n  = 40）。内科为第一作者的科室占49%。提供最高被引文章的国家是日本（n  = 24）。

结论

我们对涉及 TACE 治疗 HCC 的 100 篇高被引文章进行了分析，列出了最具影响力和历史意义的论文的详细列表。日本是发表文章被引用次数最多的国家，突出了它对这一文学领域的重要贡献。