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Table 4.

The 20 most frequently cited articles during 1943–2016

SCR	Authors	Title	Year of publication	Source title	Cited by	IF^a	Study design
1^st	Lanciotti et al. [50]	Origin of the West Nile virus responsible for an outbreak of encephalitis in the Northeastern United States	1999	Science	1055	34.611	Laboratory-based research
2^nd	Nash et al. [9]	The outbreak of West Nile virus infection in the New York City area in 1999	2001	New England Journal of Medicine	789	59.558	A retrospective study
3^rd	Mackenzie et al. [51]	Emerging flaviviruses: The spread and resurgence of japanese encephalitis, west nile and dengue viruses	2004	Nature Medicine	731	30.357	Review
4^th	Lanciotti et al. [49]	Rapid detection of West Nile virus from human clinical specimens, field-collected mosquitoes, and avian samples by a TaqMan reverse transcriptase-PCR assay	2000	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	711	3.631	Laboratory-based research
5^th	Wang et al. [59]	Toll-like receptor 3 mediates West Nile virus entry into the brain causing lethal encephalitis	2004	Nature Medicine	691	30.357	Laboratory-based research
6^th	Komar et al. [48]	Experimental infection of North American birds with the New York 1999 strain of West Nile virus	2003	Emerging Infectious Diseases	683	6.994	Laboratory-based research
7^th	Hubálek and Halouzka [46]	West Nile fever - A reemerging mosquito-borne viral disease in Europe	1999	Emerging Infectious Diseases	667	6.994	Review
8^th	Campbell et al. [43]	West Nile virus	2002	Lancet Infectious Diseases	544	21.372	Review
9^th	Brass et al. [42]	The IFITM Proteins Mediate Cellular Resistance to Influenza A H1N1 Virus, West Nile Virus, and Dengue Virus	2009	Cell	524	28.71	Laboratory-based research
10^th	Tsai et al. [8]	West Nile encephalitis epidemic in southeastern Romania	1998	Lancet	494	44.002	A retrospective study
11^th	Hayes et al. [45]	Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of West Nile virus disease	2005	Emerging Infectious Diseases	466	6.994	Laboratory-based research
12^th	Iwamoto et al. [47]	Transmission of West Nile virus from an organ donor to four transplant recipients	2003	New England Journal of Medicine	459	59.558	Laboratory-based research
13^th	Petersen and Marfin [54]	West Nile virus: A primer for the clinician	2002	Annals of Internal Medicine	438	16.44	Review
14^th	Pealer et al. [53]	Transmission of West Nile virus through blood transfusion in the United States in 2002	2003	New England Journal of Medicine	413	59.558	Laboratory-based research
15^th	Mostashari et al. [52]	Epidemic West Nile encephalitis, New York, 1999: Results of a household-based seroepidemiological survey	2001	Lancet	406	44.002	A cross-sectional study
16^th	Turell et al. [58]	Vector competence of North American mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) for West Nile virus	2001	Journal of Medical Entomology	368	1.712	Laboratory-based research
17^th	Turell et al. [57]	An update on the potential of North American mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to transmit West Nile virus	2005	Journal of Medical Entomology	354	1.712	Laboratory-based research
18^th	Rappole et al. [55]	Migratory birds and spread of West Nile virus in the Western Hemisphere	2000	Emerging Infectious Diseases	352	6.994	Review
19^th	Sejvar et al. [56]	Neurologic Manifestations and Outcome of West Nile Virus Infection	2003	Journal of the American Medical Association	347	37.684	A prospective study
20^th	Diamond et al. [44]	B cells and antibody play critical roles in the immediate defense of disseminated infection by West Nile encephalitis virus	2003	Journal of Virology	341	4.606	Laboratory-based research

Abbreviation: SCR Standard Competition Ranking

^aThe impact factor was reported according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citation reports (JCR) 2015