Table 5.
Top-cited articles by searching keywords for all journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded database (list B): by article topic and category*
| Topic† | Category: number of articles (references) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article | Review | Practical guidelines | Research | Total (%) | |
| Gastritis, gastric ulcer, Helicobacter pylori | 193 | 388 92 118 | 4 (8) | ||
| Escherichia coli and diarrhoeal disease | 1101 | 286 96 | 3 (6) | ||
| Chemotherapy and gastrointestinal toxicity | 1107 | 1 (2) | |||
| Stromal tumours | 1104 | 1 (1.9) | |||
| Pancreatic cancer | 194 | 1 (1.9) | |||
| Inflammatory bowel disease | 1113 | 529 87 91 99 111 | 6 (12) | ||
| Colorectal cancer | 285 102 | 1033 79 95 100 105 106 109 114 116 117 | 12 (24) | ||
| Chronic hepatitis and viral hepatitis | 127 | 131 | 726 80 82 83 90 98 115 | 9 (18) | |
| Fatty liver disease | 1110 | 130 | 2 (4) | ||
| Oesophageal varices | 181 | 1 (2) | |||
| Bilirubin and hepatic transporters | 2108 112 | 2 (4) | |||
| Haemochromatosis | 197 | 1 (2) | |||
| Hepatocellular carcinoma | 128 | 232 103 | 125 | 384 89 119 | 7 (14) |
| Total (%) | 3 (6) | 8 (16) | 1 (0) | 38 (76) | 50 (100) |
*The search was conducted on 27 May 2015. Articles with reference numbers25–33 appeared in lists A and B, but with different rankings.
†Some studies covered more than one topic and were classified depending on the aim of the study and the main outcomes.