An Assessment of the 100 Most Frequently Cited Articles Regarding Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Literature

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aim of this study was to evaluate the most common 100 publications related to extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our study was conducted using the advanced mode of the Web of Science (WOS) search engine of the institute for scientific information. "TS=Extracorporeal" or "TI=Extracorporeal" terms were used for the search. The search was made on 09/09/2018 and the 100 most cited publications were identified. The total number of citations of each publication, the number of annual citations, the researchers, and the catalog data of the journals were determined using WOS and PubMed. RESULTS: From September 1975 to 2018, there were a total of 33,007 publications in the WOS search engine. Among the top 100 most cited studies, the highest number of citations was 1,212, and the lowest was 105. The total number of citations was 213.83 +/- 157.53. The annual average number of citations of the studies ranged between 121.20 and 3.29, and the mean number of studies was 17.60 +/- 16.20. CONCLUSION: Our study is the first study to evaluate and analyze the first 100 studies related to ECMO in the literature. We found an increase in the number of publications on ECMO over the last five years.