Abstract
Many articles involving human brain banks have been published. Bibliometric analysis can determine the history of the development of research and future research trends in a specific field. Three independent researchers retrieved and reviewed articles from the Web of Science database using the following strategy: “TS = (((brain OR cerebral) AND (bank* OR biobank*)) OR brainbank*).” The top 100 most-cited articles were identified and listed in descending order by total citations. Web of Science was used to identify ten recent articles describing bank construction. GeenMedical (https://www.geenmedical.com/) was used to identify ten recent articles from journals with an impact factor (IF) > 20. The top 100 most-cited articles citing human brain banks were published between 1991 and 2017. Fifty-two percent of the articles focused on a specific type of neurodegenerative disease, and 16% discussed the construction and development of human brain banks. Articles using brain tissue had more total and annual citations than those on bank construction. Ten articles with high IFs were published from 2017 to 2019, and they were primarily studies using novel research techniques such RNA sequencing and genome-wide association studies. Most studies were published in journals specializing in neurology or neuroscience such as Movement Disorders (10%), and had been conducted in the United States (52%) by neurologists (62%). The top 100 most-cited articles and recent publications citing human brain banks and their bibliometric characteristics were identified and analyzed, which may serve as a useful reference and pave the way for further research.
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This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC#81771205, #91632113), the Natural Science Foundation and Major Basic Research Program of Shanghai (16JC1420500, 16JC1420502), and the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS #2017-I2M-3-008). We would like to thank American Journal Experts (www.aje.com) for their language editing assistance during the preparation of this manuscript.
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Tang, K., Wan, M., Zhang, H. et al. The top 100 most-cited articles citing human brain banking from 1970 to 2020: a bibliometric analysis. Cell Tissue Bank 21, 685–697 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10561-020-09849-w
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