Top cited articles about the stress urinary incontinence: A bibliometric analysis

Objective

To produce a bibliographic source by compiling the most-cited articles about stress urinary incontinence to guide researchers for novel research topic ideas in urogynecology.

Study design

We analyzed 200 most-cited articles (T200) between 1995–2022 by reviewing the Institution for Scientific Information (ISI) − Web of Science (WOS) and PubMed databases about the stress urinary incontinence. The time span-effect of publications was normalized by calculating average citations per item (ACI) index for each article. The publications were sub-classified by the publication year, journals, countries, surgical methods, and departments.

Results

The median for total citation numbers and the ACI indices of T200 were 35 and 5 respectively. The top-cited articles were mostly published in USA with 91 articles (46.5 %) followed by Italy (22, 11 %), and United Kingdom (21, 10.5 %). Among T200, 149 were original research, 44 reviews, 4 meta-analyses, and 3 editorial articles. Further, 59 were about surgical procedures (of which 28 were about TOT-TVT comparison). M. Serati and L. Bruker were the most contributing authors to T200 with 19 articles. On the top of T200, the article of Pierre A. Clavien et al. (2009) sits with 6201 citations, published in the journal of “Annals of Surgery”.

Conclusions

We suggest that the most-cited articles commonly conducted in the high-income countries, mostly published between 2014–2018. Best of our knowledge, this is the first study analyzing the most-cited 200 publications in urogynecology field under two different perspectives of two different disciplines, namely urology and obstetrics and gynecology.