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The 50 Most Cited Papers Pertaining to American Football: Analysis of Studies From the Past 40 Years

BACKGROUND: Bibliometric citation analyses have been widely used in medicine to help researchers gain foundational knowledge about a topic and identify subtopics of popular interest for further investigations. PURPOSE: To identify the 50 most cited research publications related to American football....

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Autores principales: Jenkins, Anna S., Moore, Michael L., Pollock, Jordan R., Brinkman, Joseph C., Verhey, Jens, Chhabra, Anikar
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9793059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36582927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259671221141089
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Moore, Michael L.
Pollock, Jordan R.
Brinkman, Joseph C.
Verhey, Jens
Chhabra, Anikar
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description BACKGROUND: Bibliometric citation analyses have been widely used in medicine to help researchers gain foundational knowledge about a topic and identify subtopics of popular interest for further investigations. PURPOSE: To identify the 50 most cited research publications related to American football. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: The Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database was used to generate a list of publications relating to football. Articles were filtered by the total number of citations, and the top 50 most cited articles studying the sport of football were selected for this analysis. Articles were analyzed by author, publication year, country of origin, institution affiliation, journal, article type, main research topic area, competitive level, and the level of evidence. A total of 247 articles were reviewed to reach the top 50 articles. RESULTS: The most studied topic within the top 50 articles was concussion/chronic traumatic encephalopathy (n = 40). Collegiate football was the most studied level of competition (n = 25). The journal publishing the greatest number of top articles was Neurosurgery. Two institutions, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Boston University School of Medicine, produced over one-third of top 50 articles (n = 18). CONCLUSION: Our analysis indicated that most of the top 50 publications related to the sport of football focused on concussion and CTE, were observational, and were published during or after 2000. The most studied level of competition was collegiate football.
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spelling pubmed-97930592022-12-28 The 50 Most Cited Papers Pertaining to American Football: Analysis of Studies From the Past 40 Years Jenkins, Anna S. Moore, Michael L. Pollock, Jordan R. Brinkman, Joseph C. Verhey, Jens Chhabra, Anikar Orthop J Sports Med Article BACKGROUND: Bibliometric citation analyses have been widely used in medicine to help researchers gain foundational knowledge about a topic and identify subtopics of popular interest for further investigations. PURPOSE: To identify the 50 most cited research publications related to American football. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: The Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database was used to generate a list of publications relating to football. Articles were filtered by the total number of citations, and the top 50 most cited articles studying the sport of football were selected for this analysis. Articles were analyzed by author, publication year, country of origin, institution affiliation, journal, article type, main research topic area, competitive level, and the level of evidence. A total of 247 articles were reviewed to reach the top 50 articles. RESULTS: The most studied topic within the top 50 articles was concussion/chronic traumatic encephalopathy (n = 40). Collegiate football was the most studied level of competition (n = 25). The journal publishing the greatest number of top articles was Neurosurgery. Two institutions, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Boston University School of Medicine, produced over one-third of top 50 articles (n = 18). CONCLUSION: Our analysis indicated that most of the top 50 publications related to the sport of football focused on concussion and CTE, were observational, and were published during or after 2000. The most studied level of competition was collegiate football. SAGE Publications 2022-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9793059/ /pubmed/36582927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259671221141089 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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