Summary
Analysis of highly cited articles published in Emergencias
Miró O, Fernández-Guerrero IM, Burillo-Putze G, Martín-Sánchez FJ
Affiliation of the authors
Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. Grupo de Investigación “Urgencias: procesos y patologías”, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Granada, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
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Miró O, Fernández-Guerrero IM, Burillo-Putze G, Martín-Sánchez FJ. Analysis of highly cited articles published in Emergencias. Emergencias. 2015;27:379-85
Summary
A journal is generally considered to be of higher quality to the extent that it publishes articles that are cited. A journal’s articles are not all cited equally, however; rather, citations of only a select group of titles accounts for most of a journal’s impact factor. This study aimed to identify the characteristics of Emergencias’s most highly cited articles and compare their impact to that of papers by other authors in Spain, in Spanish, and internationally in the field of emergency medicine. Between 2008 and 2015, Emergencias published 975 articles, which received 2207 citations. The most-cited article received 52, and the group of 20 most-cited articles accumulated a total of 519 cites (23.5%). Even though Emergencias is published in Spanish and was included in Journal Citation Reports only recently (2008), some of the published articles have had considerable impact. The most-cited article (EVADUR Study) was in the top 2% (98th percentile) of all publications by authors in Spain, and in the top 1% of articles published in Spanish or in emergency medicine.