The 100 most-cited publications on peyronie’s disease: a bibliometric analysis and visualization study

ABSTRACT This study aimed to summarize the characteristics of the top 100 most-cited publications on Peyronie’s disease (PD) research and to analyse past and current research hotspots and

trends. The SCI-E database of the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) provided us with the top 100 most-cited publications in PD research, from which we took the following information:

general trend of publication, year of publication, nation/region, institution, journal, author, and keywords. VOSviewer (version 1.6.18) and Excel (version 2016) were used for information

analysis. Through a standardized search, we ultimately found 1019 papers in the field of PD research, from which we extracted the 100 articles that had received the highest citations. The

articles were published between 1949 and 2016. The United States is a major contributor to PD research (_n_ = 67). The University of California, Los Angeles, was the institution with the

largest number of articles (_n_ = 11). These articles were published in 16 journals, with the largest number appearing in the _Journal of Urology_ (_n_ = 47). The author with the most

articles was Levine LA (_n_ = 9). Gelbard MK’s articles had the highest citation frequency (_n_ = 1158). Erectile dysfunction (_n_ = 19) was the keyword with the highest frequency,

indicating that PD-related erectile dysfunction was the leading focus of research in this field. Most of the keywords that have appeared in the past decade are related to the clinical

treatment of PD. Therefore, we believe that improving patients’ erectile function to the greatest extent in clinical treatment is the frontier and hot spot of future research. Access through

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CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS BIBLIOMETRICS AND VISUALIZATION ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE ON MALE HYPOGONADISM FROM 2000 TO 2023: RESEARCH FOCUS AND FRONTIERS Article 05 December 2023 TOP-CITED

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AVAILABILITY The data of “the top 100 most-cited articles in PD research” used to support the findings of this study are included within the supplementary information file. REFERENCES *

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